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This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on October 3, 1009. Someone gave my dad a box of mooncakes as a gift and he gave it to me. How sweet and while you’re at it, make that a double please – the mooncakes are indeed as sweet as my dad !

Once upon a time, I used to buy boxes of mooncakes and distribute them to my elders on both sides of the family as gifts. But somehow over the years, I’ve let that tradition slide.

Mooncakes are so sweet it can only be eaten a little at a time and it seems everyone has a hard time finishing up their mooncakes. I don’t know what diabetic and Mesothelioma doctors have to say to that but if even the old folks find them sweet, they must indeed be so.

I myself don’t eat mooncakes. My daughters would only nibble on small pieces of this lotus paste mooncake with egg yolk.

These days, mooncakes come in all sorts of unlikely colors (purple, pink) and fusion flavors (jelly, tiramisu, ice-cream mooncakes) and they cost a fortune. This green tea crusted mooncake is still sitting in my fridge because ‘green just looks so icky’, say my daughters.

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