{"id":4353,"date":"2015-09-23T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2021-02-16T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:20:37","slug":"eurotalkers-try-mooncakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/eurotalkers-try-mooncakes\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroTalkers try&#8230; Chinese Mooncakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mooncakes02.jpg\" alt=\"Mooncakes02\" class=\"wp-image-4368\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, millions of ethnic Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (\u4e2d\u79cb\u7bc0, pinyin: Zh\u014dngqi\u016b Ji\u00e9) around the world. This year it falls on 27th September, but you&#8217;ll find that festivities are held throughout the month. It is thought to originate from ancient times when people would worship the Mountain Gods after the harvest was complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the festival is celebrated not only to honour the moon and the rewards of the harvest, but to gather with friends and family in a celebration of unity and harmony. One of the traditions (and for me the most exciting part of the festival) includes the making and sharing of mooncakes (\u6708\u9905, pinyin: yu\u00e8 b\u012dng). I absolutely loved eating mooncakes growing up and couldn&#8217;t believe how many types and flavours you can get now on my recent trip back to Singapore &amp; Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mooncakes01.jpg\" alt=\"Mooncakes01\" class=\"wp-image-4366\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These little beauties are a type of pastry commonly filled with lotus bean paste (\u84ee\u84c9, pinyin: l\u00edan r\u00f3ng). You&#8217;ll also often find ones that contain a salted egg yolk which represents the full moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not really a flavour\/texture that I&#8217;ve found anywhere in Western food culture, so I decided that I would &#8216;subject&#8217; my colleagues to a bit of a mooncake tasting session. With four flavours to choose from namely green tea, pandan, red lotus and white lotus, who would be able to resist these sweet delights? I definitely wasn&#8217;t secretly hoping that no one would like them&#8230; just so there would be more left for me! Check out the video below to see their reactions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IoS4F-Mdfv0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a mooncake fan or a mooncake newbie? Either way, we wish you a very happy and mooncake filled Mid-Autumn Festival! \u4e2d\u79cb\u5feb\u4e50! Zh\u014dngqi\u016b ku\u00e0il\u00e8!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Safia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mooncakes03.jpg\" alt=\"Mooncakes03\" class=\"wp-image-4373\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, millions of ethnic Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (\u4e2d\u79cb\u7bc0, pinyin: Zh\u014dngqi\u016b Ji\u00e9) around the world. This year it falls on 27th September, but you&#8217;ll find that festivities are held throughout the month. It is thought to originate from ancient times &#8230; <a title=\"EuroTalkers try&#8230; Chinese Mooncakes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/eurotalkers-try-mooncakes\/\" aria-label=\"More on EuroTalkers try&#8230; Chinese Mooncakes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,1303,24,80],"tags":[750,125,1308,1309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}