This time of year you can buy mooncakes. What lovely aromas of baked sweet pastries assail you as you hurry to or from the railway station (MRT in Singapore) or the shopping mall. So tempting to stop and buy and break your diet.
But what is the origin of the moon cakes? Legend says that there were ten sons or suns (neat pun in English) who were brothers. But they made the earth so hot that an archer was sent to kill all but one. the surviving sun or son, fell in love with a lovely lady.
He was given the elixir of immortality, but warned that if he ate more than half of it he would be banished from earth. He left it at home with his lady love and told her not to eat it.
A robber called and tried to steal it. So she ate all of it.
She became immortal, but was banished to the moon. He stared longingly up at her and ate cakes the shape of the full moon in her honour.
The moon Goddess is depicted with her companion the rabbit, the symbol of the moon.
But what is the origin of the moon cakes? Legend says that there were ten sons or suns (neat pun in English) who were brothers. But they made the earth so hot that an archer was sent to kill all but one. the surviving sun or son, fell in love with a lovely lady.
He was given the elixir of immortality, but warned that if he ate more than half of it he would be banished from earth. He left it at home with his lady love and told her not to eat it.
A robber called and tried to steal it. So she ate all of it.
She became immortal, but was banished to the moon. He stared longingly up at her and ate cakes the shape of the full moon in her honour.
The moon Goddess is depicted with her companion the rabbit, the symbol of the moon.
This green filling is panda lotus. Delicious. Must try.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker.
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