Mid Autumn festival
i går skulle det helgdag och man skulle äta Mooncake. Hitta en bra beskrivning av dom på www.smartshanghai.com som jag tyckte beskrev väldigt bra denna lilla kaka.
"No one likes mooncakes. This is a simple fact of life in China. Every year I am gifted several boxes by employers and business associates (whatever those are). Every year, I re-gift them to my ayi and my mechanic. Every year, I get the distinct feeling that they are going to pass them on to distant relatives. It is the cycle of the mooncake. I am quite certain that—in the history of mooncakes—no one has ever eaten one, ever. In the past week, I have been told by every Chinese person I know that the only mooncakes they eat are made of ice cream and come from Häagen-Dazs for a hefty fee of about 758rmb for a set of eight.
Mooncakes are the Chinese equivalent of oil burners. No one actually uses them but everyone has one because, for some inexplicable reason, they are the go-to gift for someone who doesn’t know what else to buy for a person they hardly know who invited them to a Christmas party and told them to bring a Secret Santa present. But in China, in September, every single person is your Secret Santa an"
Mooncakes are the Chinese equivalent of oil burners. No one actually uses them but everyone has one because, for some inexplicable reason, they are the go-to gift for someone who doesn’t know what else to buy for a person they hardly know who invited them to a Christmas party and told them to bring a Secret Santa present. But in China, in September, every single person is your Secret Santa an"
