How to celebrate Chinese moon cake festival

Chinese moon cake festival is a popular and traditional East Asian holiday. It is a 3000 year tradition and many people in Asia today still celebrate it like their ancestors did. It is one of the best holidays because traditionally you will get to eat the very delicious moon cake that comes in many different varieties.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• moon cakes
• tea
• barbecue
• meats
• vegetable
• family members

1. Moon cake festival falls on Lunar calendar's Aug 15 each year.
   Here the dates for moon festival for the western calendar.

   2009: October 3
   2010: September 22
   2011: September 12
   2012: September 30
   2013: September 19
   2014: September 8
   2015: September 27
   2016: September 15
   2017: October 4
   2018: September 24

2. For this holiday, people would eat moon cakes and drink tea while looking at the moon. Moon cakes are available in most Asian supermarkets. It has many flavors and one of the most popular version is the lotus seed paste with egg yoke. The moon cake is eaten with tea (green tea, jasmine tea, black tea, or any tea you prefer). Moon cakes symbolize togetherness in a family and not to mention it is very delicious.

3. You can also celebrate Chinese moon cake festival with a traditional American barbecue. Gather your family / friends and have a great time. Traditionally, this holiday signifies togetherness for a family. For those that cannot be with family members because of work or other reasons, they look at the moon and think about their loved ones.