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post Sep 9 2008, 10:31 PM
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moon festival this upcoming monday!

who's been eating their mooncakes? nom nom nom
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:34 PM
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if i'm thinking of the same thing, then i hate those things. my grandpa used to always have a bunch and i'd always wanna eat them. but then when he gave me one i realized it was nasty as f**k with that marshmellow shit in it.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:34 PM
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The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節), also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular East Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Chinese Lantern Festival is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar), a date that parallels the Autumn Equinox of the solar calendar. This 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.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar (the other being the Chinese Lunar New Year), and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together.



lotus seed paste is the best yummm
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:35 PM
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oh ok just kidding, maybe i ate the ghetto version.
 
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QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Sep 9 2008, 08:34 PM) *
if i'm thinking of the same thing, then i hate those things. my grandpa used to always have a bunch and i'd always wanna eat them. but then when he gave me one i realized it was nasty as f**k with that marshmellow shit in it.



LOL did they look like
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:38 PM
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I diddd. They're gewd 0:. I just don't like the yolk.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:39 PM
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Yeah. Mooncakes definitely don't have marshmallow shit in them, unless you're eating one of those new-age shittastic mooncakes that try to be trendy.

I love Mid-Autumn Festival, mostly because of lanterns, burning incense, etc. The general feel of the whole festival. I don't even like mooncakes all that much though. They're sickly sweet and stick in my mouth too much. And usually there are way too many yolks inside.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:39 PM
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lmaoooooo



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post Sep 9 2008, 10:40 PM
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^2 I always eat an 1/8th of a mooncake at a time since it IS extremely freaking sweet--it's the perfect amount.

I also like that family members have to make time to get together and then my aunt cooks dinner and it's just good food and happiness galore

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lmaoooooo



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BANANA? WTH that looks disgusting
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:42 PM
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Man, I haven't had any yet!! WTF?

QUOTE(Gigi @ Sep 9 2008, 08:39 PM) *
And usually there are way too many yolks inside.
That's what makes them so delicious! But... then again I love eggs.



And GAWDAMMIT BETTY, YOU'RE MAKING ME CRAVE SOME NOW.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:44 PM
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^ WUUUUUUT? damn missing out girl.

WHY ARE MOONCAKES SO f**kING EXPENSIVE.


I dislike "zao ni"
 
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It wouldn't be a mooncake with yolk, for sure, but is there any need to have FOUR yolks in a mooncake? Usually they're dripping with oil too. Grosses me out a bit. Give me four sunny side up any day XD.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:44 PM
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QUOTE(doiink @ Sep 9 2008, 10:40 PM) *
BANANA? WTH that looks disgusting


IT IS
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:46 PM
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dang FOUR? must be hella expensive. two yolks in one cake is plenty enough for me. 4's way too salty??1/ yeah the oil is..scary. it's all pooled together LOL
 
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QUOTE(Gigi @ Sep 9 2008, 08:44 PM) *
Usually they're dripping with oil too. Grosses me out a bit. Give me four sunny side up any day XD.
Word!

btw, we gotta go to De Dutch together one day.

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post Sep 9 2008, 10:47 PM
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QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Sep 9 2008, 08:44 PM) *
IT IS



the only thing in the world that should taste like banana, is banana.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:48 PM
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^ Agreed! Banana-anything tastes so, so nasty. I have no idea why. I can stand strawberry stuff, apple stuff...etc. But artificial banana is just nasty.
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:52 PM
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yeah in 6th grade my teacher gave me a banana laffy taffy candy thing and it was nasty and then my mouth tasted like that for about a month it seemed like...and it kept coming back often times from then on. so i finally decided that my snot/drainage in my throat when im sick tastes like artificial banana flavoring so that's my problem maybe. i diagnosed that myself. wutchu know about dat?
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:52 PM
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i tried to buy some at the airport before i went back to the US but they were all out. D:
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:52 PM
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OMFG.
ME throb.gif MOONCAKES!
 
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post Sep 9 2008, 10:52 PM
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gigi: amen. who eats banana flavored anything? it's just not a flavor meant to be used for anything else


there's a reason why Hi-Chew doesn't make banana flavors.
 
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post Sep 10 2008, 04:34 PM
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Just reading or hearing the word "mooncake" puts a smile on my face, both because mooncakes are delicious and for Betty's reason, the family thing.

QUOTE(Gigi @ Sep 9 2008, 11:44 PM) *
It wouldn't be a mooncake with yolk, for sure, but is there any need to have FOUR yolks in a mooncake? Usually they're dripping with oil too. Grosses me out a bit. Give me four sunny side up any day XD.

Mooncakes are so good, but so fattening! :( They're "ho lou" even if you just eat a fourth at a time.

I haven't eaten any yet, either, Joanne. D:
 
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post Sep 10 2008, 04:37 PM
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Oh man, I love Moon Festival, sadly I haven't been able to celebrate it in Taiwan for 13 years now.

I'm not too big on mooncake though. Just so much yolk.
 
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post Sep 10 2008, 06:10 PM
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QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Sep 9 2008, 10:39 PM) *
lmaoooooo

http://www.littledebbie.com/Images/products/bananamm.gif

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only the chocolate ones, though. *nod*
 
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post Sep 10 2008, 06:21 PM
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I had like, 5 already (all with yolk), which is actually...a lot. We had 2 boxes!
 
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