Mooncake Festival

Otherwise officially known as mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese calendar. So this year it falls exactly today! Aside from the Philippines, others countries that celebrate the mooncake festival are China (of course!), Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan and Korea. It is during this time as well that mooncakes are abundant (mooncakes are not sold throughout the year but only around the period of the Mid-Autumn festival)

So what are mooncakes? According to Wikipedia... Typical mooncakes are round or rectangular pastries, measuring about 10 cm in diameter and 4-5 cm thick. A thick filling usually made from lotus seed paste is surrounded by a relatively thin (2-3 mm) crust and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs

Some of my favorite mooncakes are from:

1. Maxim's in Hong Kong

2. Kee Wah in Hong Kong

3. Restoran Oversea in Malaysia