Mooncake festival (mid-autumn festival) is round the corner. Shops filled with lanterns of all sizes and shapes. Mom would placed a tray of goodies amongst them, little yams and black 'horns' offered to the deities. My apologies-just could not find the name nor the picture of these 'horns'. I recalled my much much younger days of walking in the neighbourhood with my lantern together with my friends. Looking back, we diced with danger as the lanterns got burned down quick due to poor design and combustible material make.
Mooncakes nowadays come in pretty boxes and is indeed a part of the determining factor in purchase. These boxes make beautiful jewellery or keepsakes boxes. Selling for about RM70.00 per box (4 pieces per box), it is indeed an expensive affair. Then there are plenty of flavours to choose from until one could feel lost. And there are mooncake lovers who would freeze the mooncakes to enjoy them year round.
Looks like the mooncake is here to stay ...
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