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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 , 10:10 PM

Happy Mooncake Festival y'all!

Anyone spotted Chang'E or the Jade Rabbit? (I know Armstrong didn't XD)

This is the only time of the year when you can pig out freely on mooncakes, drink tea, play with candles and lanterns like there's no tomorrow, literally. Haha and not forgetting the pomelos and baby yams! Ooh simply yammilicious! Lol I didn't do much lantern carrying this time, but yeah I sure did lotsa mooncake-eating, and boy was it goood! ;p

We got lotsa mooncakes and they came from all kindsa sources. There's the mocha-flavored snowskin mooncakes from Hotel Rendevous, snowskin mooncakes with orange and walnut paste (I know, how bizarre!) and the traditional ones with yolk and melon seeds from Crystal Jade and someplace else. But! My favorite of them all has gotta be the Mocha flavored snowskin mooncake (lol the name's quite a mouthful too). The paste's a rich Mocha flavor and when you bite into the core of it, man you'd have died and gone to the Moon. The core's a ball of luxurious dark chocolate, oh my god it's choco heaven baby! Here's a pic of it. Damn! I'm kinda suffering from withdrawal systems, need to check into a mooncake rehab centre man. T_T Uurgh...need...one...of...those...mooncakes.

So we've heard of many variations of the mooncake festival story right? Check out Vietnam's version of it, I kinda like it, it's got some humor in it. Lol. Go check it out here. Just scroll all the waaay down.

My version of the Mooncake Festival goes like this:

Chang'E was sick of pining away for her husband back on planet Earth and the Jade Rabbit was kinda bored punding medicine on the Moon. And you guys prolly seen images of the Moon courtesy of NASA, it's all grey, cratered, pretty bashed-up, in short: inhabitable. Hence, the Jade Rabbit hatched up a plan with Chang'E to get some help from the Earthlings to help get them outta there. They still had some flour, eggs and whatever's needed for baking courtesy of Neil Armstrong and crew the other time they popped by. Lotus paste courtesy of the Jade Rabbit's medicinal supplies.

They baked a HUGE batch of them and they stuck slips of paper into them. It says "SOS. Stranded on moon." Alas, they didn't have an oven or any kinda heat source. They sling shot the batch of mooncakes aimed at Earth anyways. And as these fellas penetrate the ozone layer, stratosphere and whatever, they get heated up (they didn't disintegrate totally since they made it with LOTSA layers and they peeled away as they enter Earth's atmosphere kinda like how the ceramic plates peel away on a space shuttle).

After travelling several light years, they finally landed on Earth, and into the hands of the Chinese people (coincidentally) who are known to be indiscriminate eaters, hence they popped them into their mouths. They found the slip but the lotus paste kinda stained the words, only the letters "m-o-o-n" were visible. Hence, the term "mooncake" was born. And yes, Chang'E and the Jade Rabbit were sadly, forgotten on the cold and desolate moon.

-The End-

Lol yeah and there's my version of the Mooncake Festival.

Oh yeah oh yeah! What's your dream flavor for moonies? Mine's prolly peppermint chocolate snowskin mooncake!

Haha okay that wraps up my Moonie post. Enjoy yourselves fellas!