Mid-Autumn fest comes early for some


Spoiled for choice: A customer viewing the mooncakes being sold at a mall in Petaling Jaya. — ART CHEN/The Star

PETALING JAYA: While many people will refrain from hosting weddings or starting home renovations during the Hungry Ghost Festival month, there are no such restrictions in buying and giving mooncakes.

Mooncakes in their colourful boxes are already being sold widely in shops, restaurants and malls despite the Hungry Ghost Festival beginning on Aug 4, the first day of the seventh lunar month.

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