A.P.P.L.E

月圆，人团圆。(yue yuan, ren tuan yuan)
A Chinese saying which means “Moon round, people reunite.”
Yup, at the night of the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival like this, the Chinese will eat the very sweet round cakes which they called them mooncakes, hanging paper lanterns during night time and of course a reunion dinner among family members.

Last night I ate a lot of food till I felt very uncomfortable, perhaps it’s been some time I haven’t eaten that much. However, it was a meaningful and delicious meal. I did take some photos of a varieties of mooncake that I bought earlier, but I don’t have them with me right now. So, I can only share some mooncakes photo that are available now.

This is called the bing pi (冰皮) mooncake.
The green one contains coffee flavored paste and the yellow one contains durian flavored paste.

However, they are really really very sweet.

This is another kind of mooncake, not as sweet as the previous ones. And I prefer this type more.

Mooncakes usually goes with tea. We were having mooncakes and tea when hanging lanterns outside the house.

Before eating mooncake and ‘playing’ lanterns, we had our reunion dinner - the steamboat.

Fresh vegetables, prawns, fish and processed meat balls were all put inside the boiling soup.

After dinner, it was time for outdoor lantern hanging. For kids, they would bring the paper lantern around and walk on the street. That recalls my childhood memories…

Dad had a crazy idea. He said wanted to hang those lanterns on the “telephone-line post” and he really did it.

This is how they looked like in the dark.

From the other angle. Well, the lanterns glowed beautifully in the night. Argh, my camera couldn’t take any better pictures…

Yellow lanterns are the best, they are bright and beautiful.

Now, just see for yourself how the lanterns looked like during the night.

For those of you, who couldn’t get back home and reunite with your family, don’t feel too bad ok?

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