Mid Autumn Festival

Mid Autumn Festival is one the Chinese festival that filled with happiness and togetherness. In this special day, the family members and friends will gather together to have fun and have some moncakes, enjoying delicious food, playing lantern, appreciate the bright and beautiful full moon. To deliver this wonderful festival, Chang De Temple Miri had organized the “Mid Autumn Festival Gathering” for a bunch of filial piety class’ students, the parents and the temple’s members. The gathering was at the Fan-Shape garden in Miri.

The small notes that record the main ingredients for baking mooncakes (written by Tian Ning's mother)

Buying the ingredients for baking mooncake in KST Bakery Ingredients, Miri

Discussion time between Li Yune and Tian Ning's mother

Yay~~Well mixed ingredients for snowkin mooncake (really suitable for lazy people like me)

Baking class organized by KST Bakery Ingredients, located in the upper ground

Various types of moulds

Please keep quite, discussion time again :)

Hello Kitty???

Merry Christmas decorations

Santa Clause

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Suggestion from Tian Ning to have a drink

Not much people

The signature is Ice Kacang. Apart from Ice Kacang, other tidbits also available.

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Our next stop is Sin Lian Supermarket. I had been told that a lot of import items could be found in here

Considering the lanterns

Laundry bag

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I’m not really like moon cakes however I like to learn how to make it.

 

Cutting the black bean paste

Divide the filling

into 100g

Shape into balls and set aside

Dirty hands of Li Yun in when shaping the filling into balls

Ice water from a big packet of ice cubes

The main ingredients of snowskin mooncakes: flour

Pour ice water onto flour with icing sugar in the mixing bowl

Form a dough

Lightly dust hand with flour and Flatten each dough into disc

Wrap it around the filling and shape in into ball

Place into Doreamon mooncake shape mould and press out the mooncake

Taa Daa~~Doreamon mooncake (First attempt)

Qi Qiang wanna try for red colour Doreamon mooncake

Li Yune was willing to offer a helping hand for Qi Qiang

Hai, I'm red colour Doraemon Mooncake

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During the night, it was schedule making pudding mooncakes. I didn’t involve. I was run out of energy and body battery since whole day went out for groceries and making snowskin mooncakes. I just sitting idle in Tian Ning’s home and watching movies. Li Yune and De Fa were in charge in making pudding mooncakes. I’m quite impressed  with Li Yune that still have the energy and passion in making the snowskin mooncakes after spending whole day in making snowskin mooncakes without resting. When one bake without passion, it kills the bake. She was totally excited about baking the mooncakes.

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We also made the sushi for the " Mid Autumn Festival Gathering"

One of the ingredients: cucumber

Bamboo and carrot

Fried vegetarian ham

Seaweed sheet from Taiwan

All ingredients that need

How to make the mayonnaise for Sushi?

Mayonnaise with Chilli sauce

 

And mix with the condensed milk 

Tian Ning's mother prepared the sushi rice by washing the rice and rinse thoroughly and place rice and water in rice cooker and set until cooked. Then, someone put cooked rice in the mixed bowl, pour the vinegar over the rice. Set aside to cool the rice.

Use the bamboo rolling mat and place one sheet of seaweed. Covered the seaweed with prepared sushi rice.

Place vegetarian ham, cucumber, fried egg and spread mayonnaise on the rice

Use the bamboo rolling mat and tightly roll the sushi

Use the sharp knife and slice the sushi

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Togetherness ❤❤❤

The garden was decorated with beautiful and fancy lantern when the students lighten the lanterns. It consider as “eye candy “at that night. Seeing the lantern hype up the mid-autumn spirit.  The organizer had arranged some games for “Mid Autumn Festival Gathering”. This kind of gathering was a great experience for all the participants because all them were gathering under one roof. Everyone had a wide smile on their face on that night. 

It was truly and exciting night that was filled with laughter. 

I recalled those happy moment when I was a child that like to play lantern. And parents will look after us from here and there. My uncle and auntie (that live in Roban) would join us too. After strolling for few round with lantern in front of our house, I will hang the lanterns at the side of the wall with the help of the wooden sticks.  In the temple’s Mid Autumn Festival Gathering I didn’t play any lanterns but I’m quite enjoy watching the little angel playing and have fun. Some of the parents bought the electronic lantern for the kids, however I prefer the traditional lantern with candles. I think those electronic lantern totally kill the original significance meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival. I find myself getting older……Speaking about mooncakes, which is the hallmark of this festival. It is getting expensive. In fact, I don’t like those expensive and high quality mooncakes. Nowadays mooncake comes in variety of flavours by mixing fruits, cheese, coffee and so on. However, I prefer those cheap white and black bean paste mooncakes especially make in Kuching (the brand of 振香斋). From my younger age until now, I use to eat振香斋mooncakes. 

“May we all be blessed with longevity; though far apart, we are still able to share the beauty of the moon together.” (Tian Ning and Me, taken before have a drink in Sharetea)