Did you know the most famous legend surrounding the Moon festival? It concerns the possible role in Chinese history. Overrun by the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Chinese threw off their oppressors in 1368 AD. It is said that mooncakes - which the Mongols did not eat - were the perfect vehicle for hiding and passing along plans for the rebellion. Families were instructed not to eat the mooncakes until the day of the moon festival, which is when the rebellion took place.
Anyway, for me it's time to look forward to eating mooncakes.
One type of traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed paste. Roughly the size of a human palm, these mooncakes are quite filling, meant to be cut diagonally in quarters and passed around. But the price is rather steep...Gets more expensive yearly.
But the beauty of staying in Malaysia is that it's gets cheaper as the day approaches. We found that in Leisure Mall recently...
We brought some and guess where my other half would be in the next couple of days...
An interesting thing about Leisure Mall is that every year it would have a display of various Lanterns. Saw this interesting one which look like two turkeys, a durian and bananas.
This year, they had some display and some booths from China. We saw a man blowing into a hot candy and shaping the candy with each blow....wonder whether we can eat it after that? Never mind won't be a good idea since he would have blown into it!
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