Have you tasted mooncakes before? Do you want to know the story and reason why Chinese people eat moon cakes on certain day? More importantly, isn't that interesting to enjoy the traditional mooncake made by yourself? Come and check out our moon cake making event in September!!

 

 

 

 

Mooncakes always symbolize the Mid-autumn festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated notably by ethnic Chinese. The festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar with the full moon at night.

 

 

Chinese people celebrate the mid-autumn festival by eating moon cakes and having moon worship.

 

As for moon cake, the most two common mooncakes in China is Suzhounese style and Cantonese style. There are huge differences between these two styles in term of texture and process of making mooncake skin.

 

The texture of Suzhounese style is like lots of layers of flaky pastry. That’s why Chinese people use lard while making the skin of Suzhounese style. You will also find this style moon cake is usually served hot and filed with minced pork.

 

On the other hand, when it comes to Cantonese style, making the wrapper requires low gluten wheat flour, syrup and alkaline water. The ingredients used for the fillings are various: lotus seed paste,melon seed paste, nuts, ham, roast pork, egg yolks, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

When you come, you will find out the other two snacks, so far we keep them as sercets~