These delicious pastries are either eaten plain or filled with mung bean paste. Sometimes, the piglets start appearing way before the festival, even right smack in the middle of the Ghost Month! Now, besides the piglets, there are also carp and butterflies. Everyone knows that Mid-Autumn Festival is on its way when they see clusters of these pastry piglets in colourful plastic baskets hanging at local bakery shops. People living in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore and Malaysia, also enjoy baked pastry in the form of piglets. Traditional mooncake makers will stamp the top of the mooncake with Chinese characters indicating various flavours: single-yolk, double-yolk, lotus bean paste etc. Sometimes, you get four salted egg yolks. Some are even savoury with minced meat! My personal favourite is the Cantonese mooncake with a rich salted egg yolk right in the middle of the pastry. You get Hokkien mooncakes with seeds and orange peel, Filipino hopia filled with mung bean, Teochew and Shanghainese ones with crusty pastry. The fillings are mostly sweet, but they could be savoury or made of minced meat as well.Ĭantonese mooncakes are not the only delicious mooncakes available for sale during the season. The shape is often round or circular, symbolising family togetherness and reunion. Depending on which part of China you hail from, mooncakes come in various flavours, though the most common flavour you see being sold in the markets is Cantonese (Southern Chinese). Mooncakes are sweet rich baked pastry filled with red bean or lotus bean paste. Mooncakes! Mention Mid-Autumn Festival and you immediately think of mooncakes. The festival falls between late September to early October.
It usually falls on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. Other Asian cultures have their own harvest festivals too like Tsukimi and Chuseok. Mooncake fans are spoilt for choice!Ī harvest festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated by Asians and the Asian diaspora, for example the Chinese and the Vietnamese. Mooncakes appear in the supermarkets and restaurants, diverse and with many flavours.
These days, where I live, Mooncake Festival preparations start even before the festival itself. Happy childhood memories are filled with beautiful lanterns, playing with candles and nibbling on lotus bean paste mooncakes.
#Happy midautumn in cantonese full
Right after the scary Hungry Ghost Festival or Ghost Month, it is a lovely festival celebrating family gatherings, enjoying sweet mooncakes and admiring the full moon. Of all the Chinese festivals, I love the Mooncake/Mid-Autumn Festival the most.
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