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| The full moon peeking through the trees |
Happy Mid Autumn! 中秋節快樂!
It really is a sign of fall when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes around. In Vancouver the leaves on some of the trees have begun changing colour to yellow, orange or red, and chestnut trees have released their prickly green round cases that break open and reveal the dark brown hard seed on the ground.
Tonight the moon is particularly full and after dinner around 8.30pm we snapped a picture of it as it began to rise in the sky.
After that we ate some slices of mooncakes. We got boxes of mooncakes this year from The Boss Bakery & Restaurant in Chinatown, where they make traditional ones with two salted egg yolks that are pretty darn good.
We also scored the famous Peninsula Hotel's egg custard mooncakes. They are not as heavy, and have a slight coconut taste.
My favourite is still the ones from the Kowloon Shangri-La, with red bean paste mixed with 25-year-old mandarin peel. The combination is so well balanced!
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