Moon cake festival 2006

[kuching]

Next coming friday, Chinese & Korean will celebrate the moon cake festival. In Kuching, we'll go to carpenter street to buy moon cakes & other foods.....Also, every night from Sept 30 until Oct. 6 (?), got different group of performers to entertain the crowd.

The entrance of carpenter street.





The crowd gathered at a Chinese temple to watch the free mini concert.





Chinese lantern on the street.

[kuching]

A moon cake selling stall.




ABC stall. A=Ais, B=Batu, C=Campur; means mixed ice (with fruits & others)....





Another stall selling moon cake:

[kuching]

A stall selling Chinese lantern:




Entrance of a chinese temple. There are a few old Chinese temples in the down town.




Errrr.....no idea what is that? Fried shrimp? I only know to eat, can't ID local food.

[kuching]

This is a Hakka (a group of Chinese) food....It's tofu + meat....





And this......fish ball ???? No idea, sorry.






A couple singing love songs on the street:

[kuching]

A local band:





One of the important Chinese history about this moon cake festival is ....about a revolution to over thrown Mongolian rulers who was ruling China during the Yuan dynasty.

According to Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia from internet): "Mooncake were used as a medium by the Ming revolutionaries in their espionage effort to secretly distribute letters in order to overthrow the Mongolian rulers of China in the Yuan dynasty. The idea is said to be conceived by Zhu Yuanzhang and his advisor Liu Bowen, who circulated a rumor that a deadly plague was spreading and the only way to prevent it was to eat the special mooncakes. This prompted the quick distribution of the mooncakes, which were used to hide a secret message coordinating the Han Chinese revolt on 15th day of the eigth lunar month.

Another method of hiding the message was printed in the surface of mooncakes as a simple puzzle or mozaic. In order to read the encrypted message, each of the 4 mooncakes packaged together must be cut into 4 parts each. The 16 pieces of mooncake, must then be piece together in such a fashion that the secret messages can be read. The pieces of mooncake are then eaten to destroy the message."

[kuching]

More on this link:

http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/mooncake2006.html

[Justikanz]

Actually should be 'Mid Autumn Festival'...

Anyway, it is interesting seeing it being celebrated big scale traditionally...

Singapore's tourism board is trying to do something like that here...

[MrTree]

Me, still fishing in Guangxi province but going back home on Thursday morning to catch up the festival.....

WHERE IS MY CHANNA???????????? SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Happy Camper]

I had moon cake once, it's an acquired taste, that's for sure.....

[kuching]

HAPPY MOON CAKE / MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL TO EVERYONE!!!

This year, we celebrate this festival under thick layer of haze caused by forest fires....started by the farmers in Borneo. A plane in east Kalimantan was over shot & crashed in the bushes at the end of the runway. Luckily, nobody is killed in this accident. And, flight schedule in Kuching airport is either delayed or cancelled due to low visibility caused by the haze. I hope my flight is not cancelled tomorrow. I got an important field trip tomorrow.

Well, the photo below was taken just now.....the full moon in orange colour!!!

[richietay]

i like the part pictured the full moon.

Usually during this day, used to get together with friends at any playgrounds, PLAY with CANDLES, ! will had the place lit up with candles and chatted over the night.

HAPPY MOON CAKE / MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL TO EVERYONE too!!!