The Mid Autumn or Mooncake Festival is a celebration of the lunar harvest in Chinese culture. It is celebrated through out the world but for the first time in my life I got to experience it here in Hong Kong. What a fun night it was! A friend and I had a yummy dinner in Central before heading off to Victoria Park to check it out.
Our first sight was this large fish made of hundreds of red lanterns.
This is another view of the fish and it changes colours!
There are lanterns, strings of lights and lighted displays everywhere.
We missed the first Fire dragon dance so decided to get out of the park for a bit to cool off and get away from the crowds. We went into a hotel down the street and had a glass of wine as well as some water.
During the festival people walk around with brightly lit lanterns and glow sticks. Even the dogs get into the spirit!
We went back to the park for the Fire Dragon dance. Unfortunately we did not know where it was and before we knew it, it was being performed quite far from us. With so many people this was the closest we could get!
The other part of the Festival is Mooncakes! Traditionally they are made of Lotus Seed paste and salted egg yolk. While I like the yolk ones, they are not my favourite. This box has olive seeds instead!
Yumm!
Did you try the mooncake? My favourite is the dark lotus seeds with double egg yolk; they are soooooooo good and sooooooo bad for you!
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