Darkling Midnight Tunes

I love Mid Autumn festivals.

It's one of the rare romantic fests that have you sitting under the moonlight, sipping tea from microscopic tiny chinese tea cups (& stroke your beard - if you so have one).

Unglam shot of dad setting the tea table.

I am an ardent fan of snowskin green tea mooncakes but when I ran down to Bengawan Solo - Damn!! They were all out of it.

Dad, who just came back from China, inexplicably managed to cram no less than 5 million packets of mooncakes from god-knows-where. Mysterious, mysterious ....

Beijing Mooncake.

This Beijing mooncake has MEAT inside. And lots of sunflower seeds and nuts. And meat. Yes meat. Why meat was doing in there will remain an unfathomable enigma of oriental origins ... ...

Shanghai Mooncake.

Looking more like airplane cheesecake than anything else, this Shanghai mooncake tastes a lot - I say A LOT - like CNY pineapple tarts. I think there was candied melon bits inside. But WHOA, this is really pushing mooncake envelope quite a bit.

We also had green tea-citrus lotus paste mooncake and mooncakes shaped like nuclear explosion mushroom clouds. We brewed 3 types of tea. Chrysanthemum tea, Green tea and Rotten tea that we only realised after my dad checked the container. My brother drank half the pot. What a goner.

Tea. It may kill you.

Proceed to hang up lanterns.

It's fun to play with fire once in awhile. Younger sister gets handed the battery-powered one with music. Kidding.


Sparklers with noise. Yeahhh~~~