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This is my home
town since 1996
The Mid-Autumn Festival nowadays is known as the Mooncake or Lantern
Festival The mooncakes are shaped like a drum and the size of a
small saucer, filled with lotus seeds or red bean paste and melon
seeds. A salted duck's egg yolk, symbolizing the moon, forms its core.
When the cake is sliced in the middle, the golden yoke resembles the
full moon. Some families bake one large cake and each member
eats a piece as a symbol of their unity. Children display paper
lanterns in the shape of rabbits, fish, birds and butterflies.
Victoria Park in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay area, becomes a huge display
of lanterns and thousands of people lighting candles in the park |
