{"id":19658,"date":"2023-09-29T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=19658"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:04:04","slug":"chinese-mid-autumn-festival-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=19658","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival \u2013 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA visit to any Chinatown bakery this time of year will reveal a spectacular assemblage of mooncakes (\u6708\u9905, yue bing) in a seemingly infinite variety of shapes, sizes, ornamentation, and fillings, all begging to be enjoyed in observance of the Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrated this year on September 29. Here are two pandan mooncakes, one with preserved egg yolk and a mini version without, from Chinatown’s Fay Da Bakery.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here’s one of my favorites, Five Mix Nut Moon Cake, from Golden Fung Wong Bakery at 41 Mott St – one of the stops on my Manhattan Chinatown ethnojunket, of course!<\/p>\n

Since 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, known for his elegance among many other characteristics depending upon where you do your research, I decided to purchase an assortment of these elegant delicacies in order to share them, virtually, with you.<\/p>\n

For a deep dive into the holiday and these delicious treats, you can get the skinny \u2013 er, poor choice of words there \u2013 in my Chinese Mooncakes Demystified<\/a> page detailing their similarities and differences in an attempt to shed some light (moonlight, of course) on their intricacies.<\/p>\n

\u4e2d\u79cb\u8282\u5feb\u4e50!
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A visit to any Chinatown bakery this time of year will reveal a spectacular assemblage of mooncakes in a seemingly infinite variety of shapes, sizes, ornamentation, and fillings, all begging to be enjoyed in observance of the Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrated this year on September 29. Read on…. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,24,7,21],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-19658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-out-about","category-stories","category-sweets","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19687,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions\/19687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}