Mooncakes - Happiness Is Eating Mooncakes At The Chinese Harvest Festival

Mooncake in piecrust for Chinese harvest festival in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Problem
I remember harvest festival from my schooldays in London, England. fruits and vegetables and cereals laid out on the floor of the gym in front of the stage at school. Requests for donations. Living in the city, it all seemed rather remote.

Answers
Singapore's harvest festival, a subdivision of the harvest festivals in China and the rest of Asia, especially Taiwan, Hong Kong and places with Chinese populations, is much more fun, with the ubiquitous (found everywhere) mooncakes, moon-shape cakes, with a piecrust stamped with plant designs, Chinese symbols, or snow versions in white.

Inside are highly calorific and filling centres, very sweet, with the occasional salted egg yolk. The ingredients are exotic, lotus, sometimes nuts, maybe purple or chestnut colour.

A teeny section, like a slice of pie, goes a long way, very filling.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Please share links to your favourite posts.