![]() ![]() Snow skin and other modern takes are available at a variety of places across Metro Vancouver, including Chinatown’s Buttermere, Beaucoup Bakery, and TWG Tea Salon. You can find traditional mooncakes at most Chinese bakeries. However, our family has fallen in love with the various modern versions – snow skin with custard and/or ice cream fillings, buttery crusts, nutty centres, and tea-infused flavours…” Hou Zeng! ” (Very delicious!) They usually feature lotus seed paste with a salted egg yolk inside. People celebrated it with activities, such as burning incense and watching fire. Traditionally, the round-shaped, intricately designed cakes symbolize the moon and togetherness. The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival peaked in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (1644-1912). A Festival organized by Hickory Downtown Development Association. Mooncakes are the quintessential Mid-Autumn Festival dessert. Apples from Dawson Orchard in Eden Valley are for sale at the Hickory Apple Festival. Master of the Nets Garden ( Wngsh Yun) is the smallest and yet the most delightful landscape garden in Suzhou city. Chinese Mooncakes Symbols, Flavors, Regional Varieties. Our annual Mid-Autumn meal always consists of the legendary “Kam Gok Yuen” BBQ duck from Chinatown BBQ, Grandma Lowe’s recipe of Spareribs with Squash to commemorate longevity and the harvest, Mother-in-law Ling’s Green Onion and Ginger Crab over noodles, Pork and Chive Dumplings from Dicky Dumps for abundance, finishing off with some sweet “Sha Tin Yao” (pomelo fruit), and of course, Mooncakes, which has really taken an interesting and modernized twist these days. Today is the Eden Center Mid-Autumn Festival The moon festival is scheduled to take place from sometime around noon to 6p with baked goods a-many, family events, giveaways, and that extra dose of Seven Corners congestion. Places to Escape China's Mid-Autumn Festival Crowds. Families gather for celebrations, to eat dinner and share moon cakes as a way to thank the moon for a good harvest. Moon worship has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries. A post shared by Buttermere Patisserie Cafe Festival is the second-largest annual festival in Chinese tradition, next to Lunar New Year.Įach year, our family gathers together for a meal at my eldest sibling’s home, where we catch up over feast-worthy dishes. The festival, marking the end of the autumn harvest, occurs during the middle of autumn when the moon is at its fullest. ![]()
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