Mooncakes are given and received as gifts. We received some from the Peninsula hotel from a supplier that my husband works with.
They are small, round, delicate, sweet little pastries that are filled with ground lotus and sesame seed paste. In the middle of this mixture you find an egg-yolk, quite often salted duck egg-yolk. This yolk symbolises the full moon. All this sweetness is wrapped up in a thin layer of pastry.
Eaten in small wedges as they are very sweet and very rich therefore not so kind on the ever expanding waistline.
Luckily for me, I don't really care for them or any other kind of eggy delicacies - but shhhh, don't tell anyone!
Buildings and gardens are decorated with lanterns and when night falls they are lit up in all their splendour. Shops and markets are bursting with colourful lanterns that range from the traditional kind to spongebob squarepants and hello kitty.
Public parks put on beautiful colourful lantern displays but one word of warning....If you're afraid of crowds and lots of people, this is definately not for you.
We took the girls to Victoria Park on 13 September which was the last night, so it wasn't so crowed. They enjoyed it, had space to run wild, look at all the pretty colours and stay up way past their bedtime.
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