Making mooncakes used to be a family reunion activity before the tradition died down and bakeries took over. — Filepic
“LOVE you to the moon and back” as a phrase could not have been truer for the legend behind the mooncake festival.
Every year, the legend comes alive as tales of the archer hero Hou Yi pining for his wife Chang-Er, who now lives on the moon, is remembered during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Making mooncakes used to be a family reunion activity before the tradition died down and bakeries took over. — Filepic
[optional] Leong Yin Pastry Sdn Bhd chairman Leong Seng Yoon measuring his mooncake, which comes in at 92.52cm in diameter at his factory in Juru, Penang in 2017. - Filepic
[optional] Chinese chefs unveil a giant mooncake at a bakery in Shenyang, China. - AFP Photo
[optional] Colourful lanterns adorning Carpenter Street for the annual Kuching Inter-Cultural Mooncake Festival. - Filepic
While children now get the store-bought coloured paper lanterns, their counterparts in ancient times carve pomelos into animal shapes then put a candle in them. — Filepic
[optional] Bailey’s Cheese and Chocolate Lava Mooncake. - Filepic
The Six Happiness mooncake which entered the Malaysian Book of Records as the country's largest mooncake in 2001.
Creative mooncake flavours include this white lotus paste and dried shrimp sambal variety. — Filepic
[optional] Yang Guifei was credited as the concubine who had given the mooncake its name. - Filepic
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