Hinching

Figure 1. Luxurious packaging of Starbucks mooncakes

Mooncakes

The family received our first box of mooncakes from Yien this year. It somehow amazes me the variety of mooncakes come in year after year: greentea, durian, yolk, icecream, jelly and others too long to list. Despite not being avid mooncake lovers ourselves, we do our fair share of sampling mooncakes we do receive. Especially the ‘contemporary’ flavours. 

Just like any other family, we regift our mooncakes where we seem fit and keep the better ones to ourselves. Hahahaha. This mooncake season, there was no other better place to purchase them than at Tong Hing Supermarket. They have did an excellent job importing a variety of mooncakes from Hong Kong, Singapore and West Malaysia — giving our design-making skills a worthy test.

The better mooncakes are always more expensive if you’ve noticed!

Figure 2. Cousins having a go with their lanterns

Lanterns

All kids go through a phase where they realize there’s more fun in seeing a lantern burn than have it dangled at the edge of a piece of stick. I did. That was probably the last time I touched a lantern. Nonetheless, a lantern session after dinner was necessary for my younger cousins this time round. Sadly for the heavy rain, it was indoors though we did manage to get a glimpse of a bunch of kids with their lanterns in raincoats that night! 

The lantern procession ended up at the neighbour’s house instead just because my relatives weren’t ready to sacrific the house lights for a better ‘tanglung’ experience. I peeked over later on to notice — closely resembling a ritual of some sort — all their lanterns hung on a window sill with a circle of candles on the ground. -_-” Kids.

How was your mid-autumn festival this year?