The BBC and other UK news sites have featured the red moon.
In Singapore and Hong Kong shops, restaurants, department stores and even ice cream parlours have been selling moon cakes for the autumn moon festival (dates varying year to year - using the lunar calendar).
I tried mooncakes at Toastmasters meetings. My favourite flavours include red bean, which is like dates. Shops were offering to sell boxes of four mooncakes and you could select four different colours, red, green, white, yellow.
You often get an elaborate box which puts up the cost. You can buy mooncakes on line at about £16 for a set of four. Actually it's no more expensive that cheesecake from a coffee shop, or a large cake from a supermarket. Mooncake is very filling. You cut them into four or eight, representing a quarter moon.
You could buy just one mooncake for under £5 but the postage is almost as much for one so buying four cuts the postage cost per cake. In a group it's fun to have a mixture of colours and allows you to compare. I was looking at the websites trying to be sure I would get a mixture of flavours, not four of one flavour. The pictures showed a box of four different colours, but when you want to order the boxes were of one flavour. So if you are travelling to a Chinese area, look for mooncakes and stock up. In Singapore ai was told they only sell mooncakes at festival time (like Xmas cake and chocolate easter eggs, get them when you can). I was wondering whether prices would come down at the end of the festival to sell off leftover stocks, but many shops make to order, so they won't have leftovers.
I looked at the postage on Ebay, and Amazon. Another way to cut postal costs is if you are already a member of Amazon Prime or combine with another order from your 'basket' or wishlist to qualify for free postage.
I took a look around this comparison site.
http://salecombo.co.uk/Chinese%20Mooncake?p=scb&gclid=CLXvo-3Ol8gCFevpwgodmDECngIt led me to moulds for stamping a design on top of DIY mooncakes for cooks.
For pictures of the moon around the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/34377524
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251497/Blood-moon-paint-sky-red-Stargazers-world-look-heavens-witness-lunar-spectacle-time-33-years.html
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, speaker.
In Singapore and Hong Kong shops, restaurants, department stores and even ice cream parlours have been selling moon cakes for the autumn moon festival (dates varying year to year - using the lunar calendar).
I tried mooncakes at Toastmasters meetings. My favourite flavours include red bean, which is like dates. Shops were offering to sell boxes of four mooncakes and you could select four different colours, red, green, white, yellow.
You often get an elaborate box which puts up the cost. You can buy mooncakes on line at about £16 for a set of four. Actually it's no more expensive that cheesecake from a coffee shop, or a large cake from a supermarket. Mooncake is very filling. You cut them into four or eight, representing a quarter moon.
You could buy just one mooncake for under £5 but the postage is almost as much for one so buying four cuts the postage cost per cake. In a group it's fun to have a mixture of colours and allows you to compare. I was looking at the websites trying to be sure I would get a mixture of flavours, not four of one flavour. The pictures showed a box of four different colours, but when you want to order the boxes were of one flavour. So if you are travelling to a Chinese area, look for mooncakes and stock up. In Singapore ai was told they only sell mooncakes at festival time (like Xmas cake and chocolate easter eggs, get them when you can). I was wondering whether prices would come down at the end of the festival to sell off leftover stocks, but many shops make to order, so they won't have leftovers.
I looked at the postage on Ebay, and Amazon. Another way to cut postal costs is if you are already a member of Amazon Prime or combine with another order from your 'basket' or wishlist to qualify for free postage.
I took a look around this comparison site.
http://salecombo.co.uk/Chinese%20Mooncake?p=scb&gclid=CLXvo-3Ol8gCFevpwgodmDECngIt led me to moulds for stamping a design on top of DIY mooncakes for cooks.
For pictures of the moon around the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/34377524
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251497/Blood-moon-paint-sky-red-Stargazers-world-look-heavens-witness-lunar-spectacle-time-33-years.html
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, speaker.
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