Mid-Autumn Festival

Woo Hoo! Mid-Autumn Festival = Holiday = No school, right? Well Sort of. The school gave us two days off for the Festival and then scheduled make up classes on Saturday and Sunday. Umm - yeah right, like the Easton's are gonna get up early on a Sunday morning and go to class. So far here, Chinese holidays have felt much like any other day, but this year I really enjoyed the festival. What is Mid-Autumn Festival? Well, it's based in lots of old stories, but when I asked my friends about it they basically said you eat a lot of food and watch the moon. It was raining so we didn't watch the moon, but we did invite a bunch a friends over and we did eat lots of food.


Once again, Mike mastered the art of indoor grilling. This time in the hallway of our building. All were wowed and amazed at his ham bao bao (hamburger) skills.


I make a killer jello cake from scratch for one of the guy's birthday, which Johnny proceeded to eat with chopsticks.





Another important aspect of Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes. Not to be confused with Moon Pies, which are delicious, moon cakes are sort of like a crumbly crust filled with miscellaneous thick jelly. Mike I decided that they are kind of like the Christmas fruit cake of America. Some of them are tolerable, most of are terrible, you eat them to be polite and you always have too many of them. Some of this years' moon cake flavors included, fruit (these are alright), egg, green bean, and kidney bean.