Yup, you heard it right ... will be having a mooncake & lantern party (heard that there will be durian filling from Tung Lok & even Haagen Daz ice cream ones) at the office tomorrow !Yum yum ..finding every excuse to throw a party .. yes that's us!hehehehe ...was trying to convince my Admin dept to allow candles for my lanterns but rules are rules ...or at least that's what they "claim" .. they must have heard my "fame" of being a hopeless lantern owner. Sigh ... news does spread like wild fire.. = P
Talking about mooncakes, during lunch today, we were so craving for mooncakes that we gobbled down our lunch and started hopping from stalls to stalls savouring little bits of samples.Being such an "Auntie" , I was even armed with a toothpick (kept rom the 1st stall .. not my own oki) , ever ready to plunge into the yummy, fatty, calories building sugary treat.Tasted some really nice ones, like the orange flavoured white lotus snow skin mooncake from one of the hotels & the fried teochew style yam paste crusty ones. Hmmm... salivating at the thought of it. Chanced upon some really unique ones like the chempadak flavour (WEIRD tasting man) & raspberry cheese (no samples but it sounds exciting enough).
Check out this website on the diff style of mooncakes (Cantonese, Hokkien, Teowchew) & food for the Min Autumn Fest
http://www.can.com.sg/content/neocan/en/streetwise/eat/feasting___mid-autumn/foods_of_the_mooncake.html
As for the origin of mooncake (bet we have forgotten), here's an extract from the web :
Mooncakes symbolize the gathering of friends and family and are an indispensable part of the offerings made to the Earth God, Tu Ti Kung. According to popular belief, the custom of eating mooncakes began in the late Yuan dynasty.
As the story goes, the Han people of that time resented the Mongol rule of the Yuan Dynasty and revolutionaries, led by Chu Yuan-chang, plotted to usurp the throne. Chu needed to find a way of uniting the people to revolt on the same day without letting the Mongol rulers learn of the plan. Chu's close advisor, Liu Po-wen, finally came up with a brilliant idea. A rumor was spread that a plague was ravaging the land and that only by eating a special mooncake distributed by the revolutionaries could the disaster be prevented. The mooncakes were then distributed only to the Han people, who found, upon cutting the cakes open, the message "Revolt on the fifteenth of the eighth moon." Thus informed, the people rose together on the designated day to overthrow the Yuan, and since that time mooncakes have become an integral part of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Source :http://www.cc.utah.edu/~yh12/content/mooncake.htm
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