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中秋快乐 大家!   Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone! The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival. It traditionally falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. Consuming mooncake is considered as the symbol of family reunion and represents the round harvest moon. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese people will do lunar worship and moon watching, as well as enjoy the traditional delicacy of mooncakes.  If you have not eaten any Mooncakes before, it is a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed paste. The festive event is symbolic of family reunions; the Chinese make it a point to return home on this day to have dinner with their families under the full moon. The custom has evolved tremendously in present day and mooncakes are now widely exch anged commodities in Singapore. The practice of gifting mooncakes had become a method of ...

Mooncake (“月饼 (yuèbǐng)” in Chinese) is Chinese traditional snack/dessert that are eaten during Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. The festival is for lunar appreciation and moon watching, when mooncakes are regarded as an indispensable delicacy. During this period, friends and family will gather together to eat mooncakes. Typically mooncakes are round in shape, measuring about 10 cm in diameter and 3–4 cm thick. They are usually filled with red bean or lotus seed paste and surrounded by a thin (2–3 mm) crust. Some may contain yolks from salted duck eggs and they are usually eaten in small wedges and paired with hot tea.  Every year during Mid-autumn festival, businessmen and families will present them to their clients or relatives as gift. Whether you are a traditional  or snowskin mooncake lovers, I'm sure you'll like to know where to find the best mooncake, best mooncake packaging and the best promotion/discount in Si...