Month: September 2021

The mid-Autumn Mooncake: A slice of Spring and Nostalgia

The mid-Autumn Mooncake: A slice of Spring and Nostalgia

Yesterday, we celebrated the mid-Autumn festival, or the Moon Festival, as it’s alternatively called. One particular cake heralds the arrival of this sacred holiday and it is the much-celebrated mooncake. Enjoyed predominantly by South-East Asian cultures, it’s a cake that often floods our local Asian