about the Mooncake Festival

> In ancient times, the Mooncake or Mid-autumn Festival was also known as the second Chinese Valentine’s Day. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar nar calendar.

> Mooncakes were said d to have been n used to carry messages s among

Chinese revolutionaries plotting otting the overthrow of the Mongol invaders in the 14th century.

> In Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, the celebration is sometimes known as the Lantern Festival. Making, sharing and eating Chinese pastries called mooncakes are a tradition of the festival.

> Traditionally, mooncakes were round but today they come in various shapes and sizes, including animals a and popular cartoon characters. In Chinese culture, a round shape symbolises s completeness, and sharing the mooncakes signifies the unity of families. > Several countries have come up with their own local mooncake flavours. In Malaysia, you can get the Musang King while in Singapore there’s the “Milo dinosaur” mooncake.

> One of the most expensive mooncakes in Malaysia cost RM3,888 with the filling consisting of 16 premium ingredients such as cordyceps, ginseng, saffron, royal jelly, molasses, lotus seed, jujube and longan. It was topped with 24K edible gold.

> A regular baked lotus seed paste mooncake with a salted egg gg yolk y has 790 calories!