moon cake – TaB

More Moon Cakes: these were from the primary school I teach at.

Pretty box!

These are the more traditional type: the characters imprinted on the top say which bakery made the cake, and what filling is inside. I’m learning Mandarin, but I can’t read these.

Chocolate soy milk. Yum.

FRESH fish in a supermarket.

In the same supermarket…trussed-up crabs. You may be able to see some of them producing bubbly foam…they’re still alive.

Non-food: China’s National Day is October 1. This fun fair outside the mall is permanent, but on Oct 1, it was packed.

Giant balloons outside Zhongshan Expo Centre on Oct 1.

I’ve been learning to cook with a wok and just burners. This is pork and fried noodles.

Egg-fried rice.

Oh, and living with a UK citizen made me homesick…for the UK. So I found a dangerous shop which sells imports like these…

…and I made a fry-up. I didn’t take this photo – my flatmate did. His words: “It looks beautiful.”

These are moon cakes. They are eaten for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is always on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of the year, meaning it fell this past Sunday. These were given to me by one of my Chinese co-teachers, Nikki.

Mooncakes are sold in the week leading up to the festival the same way chocolates are at Christmas — in all shapes, varieties, flavours, and price points. FANCY like the ones above, and very simply…frozen, in the same case as the ice cream outside a convenience store.