My most vivid memory of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival isn’t devouring mooncakes but reciting a poem: Li Bai’s “Quiet Night Thought” (静夜思, Jìng yè sī). It was an exercise for Chinese school; our ...
If you've been scouring the interwebs high and low for an authentic mooncake recipe that is actually written by an Asian, look no further, because I'm here to share all the details. As someone who's ...
I adored Mid-Autumn as a sugar-loving child for a huge, round reason: mooncakes. But you know how growing pains go — those dense, oh-so-sweet pastries started feeling a little tired on my tastebuds, ...
The Moon Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival, is a time for family reunions and moon-gazing in many Asian cultures ...
An employee makes mooncakes at a food enterprise in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, on Sept 18. YANG MEIQING/FOR CHINA DAILY Diverse in style and flavor but uniform in the joyous spirit they represent, ...
Growing up, there was one fall holiday that I always looked forward to — and it wasn’t Halloween. Rather, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese ...