Legend has it that Chang-E stole the pill of immortality from her tyrannical husband Hou-yi in 2170 BC, and flew to the moon. So, every 15th day of the eighth lunar month (八月十五）, a female silhouette can be seen in the full moon.
This festival was widely celebrated in China throughout the dynasties, and from the Southern Song dynasty onwards, the trend of eating mooncakes began. Not long later, as China fell under Mongol rule in the Yuan dynasty, Liu Bowen, my trusted advisor, came up with the idea of hiding messages in the sweet round cakes that were distributed to the chinese citizens.
Today, it's no longer about rebellion, but about celebration! I hear that mooncakes nowadays are filled with all sorts of funny things!
These look the most traditional, like those in my time, but well, we didn't have such nice looking moulds like you people do now.
I heard there's a 'Jelly Chiang' in the run? Maybe she would like this one, jelly with yam filling.
Where the yolk is put in modern mooncakes is where we used to hide our secret rebellion message. Ah, nostalgic.
In my day, we only had lotus seed filling (莲蓉）...now I see there's even red bean paste （豆沙）!
Plastic moulds! In our time we only had wooden moulds!
Exquisite ice cream mooncakes, I see. What about those with your smelly fruit filling?
Yeah this one, I heard you people use this foul-smelling thing for mooncake filling. Urgh!
Oh well, what does someone like me from 700 years ago know?
This festival was widely celebrated in China throughout the dynasties, and from the Southern Song dynasty onwards, the trend of eating mooncakes began. Not long later, as China fell under Mongol rule in the Yuan dynasty, Liu Bowen, my trusted advisor, came up with the idea of hiding messages in the sweet round cakes that were distributed to the chinese citizens.
Today, it's no longer about rebellion, but about celebration! I hear that mooncakes nowadays are filled with all sorts of funny things!
These look the most traditional, like those in my time, but well, we didn't have such nice looking moulds like you people do now.
I heard there's a 'Jelly Chiang' in the run? Maybe she would like this one, jelly with yam filling.
Where the yolk is put in modern mooncakes is where we used to hide our secret rebellion message. Ah, nostalgic.
In my day, we only had lotus seed filling (莲蓉）...now I see there's even red bean paste （豆沙）!
Plastic moulds! In our time we only had wooden moulds!
Exquisite ice cream mooncakes, I see. What about those with your smelly fruit filling?
Yeah this one, I heard you people use this foul-smelling thing for mooncake filling. Urgh!
Oh well, what does someone like me from 700 years ago know?
Event details -
21 September 2007, Friday
1730 hrs
12th floor L&E Pantry
All run one ppl, don't forget to turn up!
21 September 2007, Friday
1730 hrs
12th floor L&E Pantry
All run one ppl, don't forget to turn up!
Refreshments include mooncakes (dunno if got jelly anot) and green tea bags. All other refreshments (contributions welcome, of course) are available from the two nice machines in the pantry itself.
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