Mooncakes

The flood of mooncakes is finally peaking, and hopefully over, until Mid-Autumn Festival next September. Even as new migrants with small social circle, 6 boxes of mooncakes entered our front door plus 1 waiting in a shop. Even Kimberley's kinder gave her a big box of 8 mooncakes to bring home. Generally the boxes are very attractive, but I honestly cannot tell the good from the not so good content inside. Kristine and Grace share the honour of being the top mooncake consumers at home; Kimberley are I are usually too busy with doing something else. A box that we have not collected is apparently mooncake made by Haagen Dazs. Sounds interesting but not motivating enough to take 4 subway stops to collect it. The zongzi '粽子' (glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaves) associated with DuanWu Jie '端午节', another public holiday commemorating a national hero QuYuan '屈原', is more to my palate, but if I get a choice, I rather have a youtiao '油条'Festival.

This also marked our first long weekend in Beijing. Auntie Vivien took Kristine and Kimberley to Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) on Sunday; while Auntie XiaoJi took Kristine, Kimberley and Grace to a hot spring pool/spa in Xiangshan on Monday. The three families gathered for dinner at our place on Monday evening. The weekend went past quickly.