We celebrated the Chinese Harvest Moon Festival this weekend as a family. The Moon Festival is similar to our Thanksgiving. In China, it is a day for giving thanks for family. It is celebrated by having a meal with family and gazing at the full moon. The children usually are given paper lanterns.
Buttercup and I found a great Chinese market in midtown and had fun adventures shopping there. It brought back many memories from China. They had tanks full of creatures you could take home for dinner. We loaded our basket with items to cook our own Chinese feast at home and we even bought traditional Chinese mooncakes. The mooncakes are round to symolize the moon and the love of family that is like a circle and never ends. They are molded with symbols for prosperity and family on the top.
Our meal was wonderful, but it was a little spicy. I didn't read the label for the stir fry sauce very well! We enjoyed everything except for the mooncakes. I bought cakes made with lotus seed paste which are supposed to be the best. We didn't care for them too much. We decided that next year we would stick with American Moonpies. We had those for dessert last year because I couldn't get traditional mooncakes.
After dinner, the girls had a great time looking for glow sticks that were hidden all over the house. This is our version of paper lanterns. In a few weeks, we are going to a Moon Festival celebration with the Families with Children from China group here in Memphis.
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