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The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival aka Mooncake Festival...

China is 13 hours ahead of the East coast USA and their festival started on the 10th. My plans Saturday were to go to Miami and shop at the huge Chinese market to get some Mooncakes, but a Celebration of Life for an old friend lasted longer than expected.
Instead, I went to a Chinese supermarket near my house, but I was surprised they didn't have any Mooncakes.


Some Mooncake history and legend:
https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/mid-autumn-festival.htm


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chatillionOP●Boca Raton, Florida USA
Sep 10, 2022●1,878 Blogs●5,022 Comments
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This must be the Chinese version of Riverdance...

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FargoFan●sydney, New South Wales Australia
Sep 10, 2022●3 Blogs●1,859 Comments
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The first Chinese moon-landing and mineral retrieval was (no coincidence) called Chang'e-5 as in the fairy story (no 5 there, unsurprisingly). Go easy on the mooncakes, they are mostly dreadfully sweet.
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chatillionOP●Boca Raton, Florida USA
Sep 13, 2022●1,878 Blogs●5,022 Comments
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I found 2 different styles of Mooncake.
The first had a salty egg yolk in the center:

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chatillionOP●Boca Raton, Florida USA
Sep 13, 2022●1,878 Blogs●5,022 Comments
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The other recipe doesn't have an egg yolk in the center. Instead, the center is red bean or lotus paste.

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chatillionOP●Boca Raton, Florida USA
Jan 2, 2023●1,878 Blogs●5,022 Comments
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On Christmas, my daughter gifted my family a tin of 4 Chinese Mooncakes. Too sweet, we gave 2 away and I had one quarter of one yesterday and a quarter today.
Real Mooncakes with the egg in the center.

I'm guessing that after lunch snack was 400 calories.
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FargoFan●sydney, New South Wales Australia
Jan 2, 2023●3 Blogs●1,859 Comments
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a quarter is my tolerance level too! But I quite like 'laopo bing' 'hei zhi ma laopo bing' - ask your own laopo about that one
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