Mid Autumn Festival

"Traditionally, the Mid Autumn festival is the ideal time, when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, to celebrate the abundance of the summer's harvest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties." Wikipedia

Yeah, Wiki's got it right. But there's just so many varieties of mooncake available now that its simply 'moon'-boggling. There's the traditional lotus seed paste ones, Green tea flavoured, the modern chocolate truffles with champagne, updated traditional snow skin with wolfberry and the very Singaporean durian mooncake..... and more types which I don't even know what flavor it is called. Heck, if you got money to burn, you can even get mooncakes that are topped off with a thin foil of pure 99.99karat gold. How's that for extravagance eh?

Anyway, what better way to check out the vast varities of mooncake available than to check out the Takashimaya Mid-Autumn Festival? Where you can sample mooncakes from almost every reputable mooncake maker in town.

So for what has become an almost annual trip, I braved the weekend crowds and jostled with all the people for some free samples. Buy mooncakes? No need one. heehee... (yes yes.. I know. I'm very cheapo.)

Mid Autumn Festival 2007