Monday, September 17, 2012

Mid Autum Festival (Mooncake Festival)

When I was a kid I always love forward for this Mid Autum Festival...
It is not because of the mooncake .. I am looking forward to play the lantern..
I mean the FIRE to be precisely...
Parents always scold me when I play with fire ...... but this day I got my lisence to play FIRE..
Every year my parents will buy me a Dragon lantern and lots of candle...

Dragon lantern that my mum use to buy for me..

I use the candles to play masak masak (cooking)..... with my kids neighbour..
We use the candles as oil and melt it in a plate..
then we get some leaves, small fruit and begin to fried it...
hmmmm I already start cooking when I was younger...
I still cherish those great moments.....

Last weekend me and my wife went to get some mooncakes..
We always get Foh San mooncake but this year I told my wife to try some others...
Now if you go to a shopping mall you could sell lots small stalls selling all types of mooncake ...
They had actually started the MOONCAKE WAR.. lol..
I could see some sellers are offer Buy 3 free 1 & etc.....


Well this time we choose Tong Kee, Grand Imperial & Lavender...
In our opinion we feel that Lavendar is very nice....
The taste and the sweetnees is perfectly match...

My perfect Mid Autumn Festival will be having some mooncake in my garden with my family.. drinking some chinese tea and enjoy the beautiful full moon......

63 comments:

  1. Most of us went through the masak-masak phase lo!

    And I'm going to be homed during mid-autumn festival! Yippie!

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  2. Ummmm...you have my mailing address? The festival is almost here and I have not even eaten ONE! Sobs!!! So expensive, can't afford... I do hope to eat one at least...never mind - our cheap local one will do also...just to preserve the tradition.

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    1. you do have my postal address right?? send me RM100 and i will send you one!! :D

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    2. No, thank you...you stingy miser, SK... Like that, I can get my own. I'll just wait. Hopefully some kind soul will give me before the festival comes around. Wait for you, will wait till kingdom come lah!

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  3. Wah! Your played masak masak! So sissy and gay! Muahahahahaha!

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    1. I am almost to say that too, TM.

      SP is still playing masak masak in his kitchen with fui fui.

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    2. Must report to Ministry of education! LOL

      SP got play kawin-kawin also or not last time? wakaka

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    3. Muahaha, masak masak only suits girls.

      The boys will get chipped in to do heavy duty job only - Look for dried leave and sticks :D

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  4. Your parents still buy you the dragon lantern to carry?? I thought now you carry your wife instead with her holding your candle!

    kakakakakakaka!

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    1. yeah, and that candle is dripping with some ahem-ahem.. aiyah, so many phlegm today~~

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    2. But his candle can vibrate, can play music, can spray ahem ahem ahem, very high tech one.

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    3. SP candle got a life of its own one! wakaka

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    4. Sometimes I really salute HHB, playing lantern also can terpesong to vibrating candle.

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  5. I have not eaten any mooncakes yet. Waiting for the price to drop till Harga Runtuh!!

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    1. i also have not eaten any mooncake yet, but then really don't have intention to purposely eat just for the sake of eating lah~~

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    2. I'm waiting for free mooncakes!

      Got some from the gals from Taiping and cannot wait to wallop them soon! :)

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    3. I ate a lot of mooncakes already, various flavours and I feel so fat now~!

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  6. suddenly reminds me of the mid autumm festival coming soon liao~~

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  7. Foh San mooncakes is nice too, but I usually buy from The Baker's Cottage =)

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    1. I also buy Baker's Cottage, and some local bakery shop.

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  8. Plenty and plenty of mooncakes available today until we are spoilt for choice. Lavender looks like a good purchase.

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  9. so you still play with those lantern now?? the other day i saw this kind of lantern, and they are not cheap at all.. one for RM10.90, i think that's rather expensive..

    the one i saw not dragon lah, it was Doraemon, haha!!

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    1. The Y&Y sistas gave my son a spongebob lantern! So cute! ^^

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    2. My dad bought me a butterfly lantern when I was young. It was my precious and used it for several years. It's not the paper-type but cloth-type.

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  10. wah, you bought so many boxes of mooncake?? all for yourself?? or some for your in-laws and some for your parents?? lavender really nice ah?? ok ok, maybe can try.. because i'm very afraid of the sweetness, can get very "jelak"..

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  11. lanterns remind me of my childhood too. a more innocent age :D

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  12. "I use the candles to play masak masak (cooking)..... with my kids neighbour..
    We use the candles as oil and melt it in a plate..
    then we get some leaves" <----- I did that too!!! hahahhaha...were you my neighbor? hahahaha LOL!

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  13. The anticipation of choosing and buying lantern was so fun and happy. These days lantern also not as nice as last time edi =_=

    Last weekend, I bought mooncakes from Jusco..got offer. Only RM10/pc..selected flavors*

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  14. Why dragon lantern? You born in dragon year kah? Meaning, you are 36 or 24 this year?

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    1. Cannot be 48 years old right? We were just discussing with lina, who is the oldest and who is the youngest in HHB group.

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    2. I'm a dragon, Yan! Now you can guess my age. Muahahahaha!!!!

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    3. STP, you same age as my hubby ah? kekeke

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    4. Nah!!! I'm sure he's not THAT old. He's 36? 48?

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  15. My girls also have 2 type of lanterns every year. The granny sure bought the one with candles, i would buy the one with LED light.

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    1. This year my girl is having hello kitty lantern :)

      The brother also having the same one =_= in order to avoid fighting.

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  16. waow, u bought so many boxes of mooncake?
    I remember during my younger days, there were lantern parade around my neighbourhood and most of the kids would take their lantern and join in the parade! :) Nowadays no more this type of parade ya?

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  17. yaya, your post bring back nostalgic memory, I love "cooking" with candle oil too, haha! lol

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  18. Mooncake Festival is my fav Chinese celebration cos I love to eat mooncake! Hehe.

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  19. there's a place here in manila ( China Town) if you are going there during mooncake festival some people are giving mooncakes for free... :)

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  20. I have yet to try mooncake this year... so expensive... think i will get a piece just for the fun of it.. :)

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  21. Buy 4 free 1!!
    Never tried Foh San's before though!

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  22. Buy 4 only free 1? Still too expensive! I want it to be buy 1 free 4! Haha

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  23. I noticed not many people buying moon cakes this year. Perhaps the trend is starting that people will buy less and less moon cakes from now on?

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  24. Good also the less people buy, the price will lower. It's ridiculous to pay more than RM10 for a moon cake when the ingredients to make it is so cheap!

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  25. Oh! Haven't tried Lavender moon cakes! Nice ah? How about Tong Kee?

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  26. So far I am eating moon cakes given by other people. Didn't buy one single moon cake this year. Not worth the price at all. LOL!

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  27. Wow! Enjoy your mooncake festival with your family.

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  28. sigh, I didnt have a good mooncake festival for more than 4 years . . . true

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  29. Yeah...am so looking forward to playing with my new "old fashion" lantern, lighting up candles and eating mooncakes! Happy mooncake festival!

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  30. I wanted to get mooncakes for my firends but my husband said it's too expensive..

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  31. Always buy pastry & bread from Lavender. Haven't try their moon cake. Must get some to try out.

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  32. Yup mooncakes war. Just bought a lot at the sale last week

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  33. We're going to have a family party for the mooncake festival! this is going to be the first time we actually celebrated the festival. i'm so excited!


    Natasha
    {the Picablocks}

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  34. My kid asking me to have a BBQ party in the coming mooncake festival, they also want to invite their friends, now I start to headache for what foods to be prepared. When you were young , I guess your family must be quite rich and afford to buy you this nice dragon lanterns , me only have the one handmade lantern .

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  35. Hmm.. i nv tried lavender moon cake before. Will give it a try since you recommend it. =)

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  36. Mid-Autumn is a must celebrate among family for reunion after so long away from CNY... I have not eaten any mooncake in your blog, so far tasted thai thong n starbucks ='(

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  37. lavender mooncakes will never disappoint. :) i love the green tea mooncakes.

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  38. the masak masak part.. guess it's always the memories of 70s and early 80s child...

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  39. Happy belated mid autumn fest! hehehe :))

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