As we all know, there are several lists of the 7 world wonders. Singapore will be your 8th world wonder. Despite being a small island on the globe, Singapore has much to offer. Right here, you can experience festivals and events that blend the best of the East and West, topped off with our own Singaporean style, so start exploring this garden city and be sure to fall in love with the amazing -
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Have you ever see groups of kids carrying paper lanterns running down the streets, or decorating the trees in your neighborhood park with multicolored lanterns? This is a common sight during our annual Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as Lantern Festival) or in Chinese, “Zhong Qiu Jie", where families will gather at night for a reunion, drinking tea and sampling mooncakes under the full moon whilst the kids run around gleefully with lanterns in their hands amidst the chatter of the adults catching up with each others’ lives.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around mid or late September of the solar calendar. There are various stories of how this festival came about. If you want to know more, you can go to this website. During this time, food and beverage businesses, ranging from small bakeries to hotels, will sell a large variety of mooncakes in Singapore.
The contemporary creations these days really exude creativity, thought that double yolk mooncakes were the best you could get? Think again – from the snow skin types to creations such as ice cream mooncakes, Martell Cordon Bleu Cognac Truffle Mooncakes, Oreo Cheese Mooncakes and chocolate-coated mooncakes, my family and I were spoilt for choice. One of the popular favorites I recommend would be the highly raved about D24 durian flavored mooncake from Goodwood Park Hotel, a yellow snow skin mooncake with the durian fruit as filling. This delicacy is something you must not miss.
You would expect the traditional brown-skinned mooncakes to shy away humbly when placed beside the haughty modern creations and although the younger generations might prefer the modern creations over the traditional ones, parents and grandparents would still choose the traditional ones which bring back fond memories from Mid-Autumn festival celebrations all the way back from their childhood days.
Do also bring family and friends to the Singapore Chinese Garden to see the majestic lantern displays and enjoy the performances held during the Mid-Autumn Festival. For this year (2008), to the delight of all the children, the theme for the lantern display was the Hello Kitty Go Race.
Every year without fail, I would spend this special day with my friends - we would visit a friends’ house to gather and celebrate. Dinner would be served and we would proceed to savour mooncakes with Chinese tea as we share the latest happenings in each of our lives. After that, we will sing classic Chinese songs together and play with lanterns and sparklers.
This is the day where most Singaporeans would be able to clear their busy schedules and catch up with friends and relatives over a “pot-luck” mooncake session; a special day to celebrate and have a fun-filled soiree.
Photo Credits: Fikeshk on Flickr, Emicakes, SingaporeSights.com
Posted by Cai Ling at 7:04 pm |
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