Autumn Festival

ezpzie · 09-09-2003 10:15am #1

Anyone doing anything exciting?
We have mooncakes galore at our household and we're probably going to light lanterns in honour of Sung Yee, might even attend a dinner or two.

DEmeant0r · 09-09-2003 6:14pm

nah, mid autumn festival is not popular at all in Galway, so I think I'll be doing nothing like all the other mid autumn festivals.

Zion · 10-09-2003 12:37pm

Set the whole house on fire as usual.

ezpzie · 10-09-2003 1:42pm

Zion - do you guys get dressed up to burn the house down too? any bangers?

crowbar · 10-09-2003 10:42pm

went to look for moon cakes today ... over €20 a box?!? that's ridiculous! i can't eat four by myself. thankfully oriental market were willing to sell me individual ones at €4.50 each.

DEmeant0r · 10-09-2003 11:29pm

I got mine for free, since my relations over in Hong Kong knows the Boss' wife of Wing Wah, she gave me a box for free. Nice lady.

Treetypie · 11-09-2003 11:17pm

Oh we got loadw of moon ccakes off everybody. Only bought one box I think. hehehehe.....

We didn't do anything hat special for this festival. It's New Year that stuff happens.

ezpzie · 16-09-2003 5:29pm

The ones with the four egg yolks are the best.. hardly any lotus paste.. mmm.....

DEmeant0r · 16-09-2003 5:33pm

I don't like the one with egg yolks that much, the ones w/o egg yolks cost more if I remember correctly.

ezpzie · 15-11-2003 7:07pm

Hey All;

Haven't looked at this in a while but just wanted to post you about the most beautiful mooncake I've seen.

My aunt got this beautiful box of mooncakes - was in a box covered in red velvet and nice oriental sown designs of moons and cakes and inside were 12 individual different types of cakes, some lotus paste ones, some made of some weird chewy almondy type stuff and there were some with yolks, some not, like the phases of a moon.. it was truly beautiful.

Anyone else seen any weird mooncakes? Btw, anyone know what the weird almondy type mooncake is or is made of?

DEmeant0r · 15-11-2003 7:16pm

damn you, you made me hungry now... /me shakes fists at ezpzie

ezpzie · 15-11-2003 7:23pm

mooncakes are hard to come by now too..

actually moust start a post on weird chinese delicacies...

I was addicted to beef jerky and fish sausages for years!

also, yik lik do is the original soy drink... vitasoy too sweet!

DEmeant0r · 15-11-2003 7:26pm

I really love yik lik do, pity you can't get it where I live, the western versions of it isn't good.

ezpzie · 15-11-2003 7:31pm

western versions??? I was lead to believe that some english supermarkets (like asda) stocked it as the original import.. that's a bit of a disapointment...

Onto more weird chinese food... anyone else like fish sausages?? now don't be shy we all have strange tastes

Does anyone actually eat smelly tofu?? I've heard some strange reports of ppl actually eating this.. I suppose that's why there's market stands!

Also, apparently Hong Kong these days are stocking everything premade in supermarkets! including premade soups that take hours upon hours to make (example ya say may which roughly translates to 24 tastes which is a chinese herbal soup type thing that helps with detox/pyretics if you're the cold type)

DEmeant0r · 15-11-2003 7:39pm

What the fish sausages called in cantonese?

ezpzie · 15-11-2003 7:57pm

Not sure.. they just look like sausages with fish meat in it.. sorry

Autumn Festival

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