It's that time of year again... the Mid-Autumn Festival is upon us, also known as the Moon Festival where it is custom to give/eat moon cakes out. In Vietnam, this festival is known as "Tet Trung Thu." This week at school we will be celebrating again with a dragon dance and moon cakes for snack.
Surprisingly, a large number of hits on my blog from Google have to do with people searching for moon cakes! You may remember last year's post. Moon cakes usually contain some kind of egg yolk inside (representing "the moon"). They often contain red bean paste or lotus seed paste.
This year I've received some moon cakes, but luckily for me they were actually good flavours with nothing too funky in them (green tea, coffee, tiramisu) and they came wrapped very nicely. There's always a chance you open it and then find some random meat mixed with vegetables or fruit (or even weird stuff like shark). Moon cakes are so popular at this time of year that there are many roadside stands set up selling boxes of them.
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My friend Greg even got Starbucks moon cakes!!! Vietnam opened up its first Starbucks in HCMC this year and it seems like they have gotten on board with the local traditions. The flavours he received were: green tea, tiramisu, white lotus, and mixed nuts which all sound pretty safe/good! Let's hope that if we receive any more moon cakes, that they are actually edible flavours like these ones!
Surprisingly, a large number of hits on my blog from Google have to do with people searching for moon cakes! You may remember last year's post. Moon cakes usually contain some kind of egg yolk inside (representing "the moon"). They often contain red bean paste or lotus seed paste.
This year I've received some moon cakes, but luckily for me they were actually good flavours with nothing too funky in them (green tea, coffee, tiramisu) and they came wrapped very nicely. There's always a chance you open it and then find some random meat mixed with vegetables or fruit (or even weird stuff like shark). Moon cakes are so popular at this time of year that there are many roadside stands set up selling boxes of them.
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My friend Greg even got Starbucks moon cakes!!! Vietnam opened up its first Starbucks in HCMC this year and it seems like they have gotten on board with the local traditions. The flavours he received were: green tea, tiramisu, white lotus, and mixed nuts which all sound pretty safe/good! Let's hope that if we receive any more moon cakes, that they are actually edible flavours like these ones!
I would love the tiramisu kind of flavours but not sure abou the others...very interesting concept!
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