Name
Choco Feast
Description
A marvelous feast for any chocolate lover for sure. The exquisite decorative box consists of a marvelous selection of assorted gourmet chocolates plus hazelnut pastry.
Various Chocolate Assortments And Hazelnut Pastry In A Decorative Basket
Date: 22nd Sept 2010
Venue: Fort Cornwallis, Penang
Organizer: Penang State Government
Tel: 04-6505136
The Mid Autumn Festivals commonly known in Malaysia as the Lantern and Moon Cakes Festival is celebrated widely by everyone in our multi racial society. Everyone gets to enjoy moon cakes, some made from lard and the halal moon cakes made from vegetable oil.
Dating back 3,000 years to China’s Zhou Dynasty, this moon gazing and lantern parading are celebrated in honour of Chang Er, the beautiful wife of tyrannical ruler and archer Hou Yi. Her boldness in saving the villagers by drinking the elixir of life has made her a legend to be remembered through all generation.
It is a time for the family members and friends to gather around to glaze and admire the full moon and at the same time savouring Chinese mooncake, mini yams, water caltrops, cracking ground nuts, peeling pomeloes fruit and sipping Chinese tea.
Source : http://www.visitpenang.gov.my/portal3/latest-events/details/31-lantern-festival-or-moon-cake-festival.html
In the south of Yangtze River valley
In Nanjing people will not just eat Chinese mooncake, they will also eat another famous dish called Guihua Dark on Moon cakes festival. This dish could only be cooked during the Mid-Autumn Day, because it is cooked with osmanthus flowers, which blossoms in August.
In Wuxi of Jiangsu province, people like to burn joss sticks to celebrate this special festival. The burned joss sticks are wrapped in tulle with beautiful paintings of Moon Palace or Chang’e.
In Ji’an County of Jiangxi province, peasants burn pottery jars with straws and vinegar so that the smell of the vinegar can spread all over the villages. In Xincheng County, people celebrate Mid autumn festivals by lighting oil lamps from the 11th day of the 8th lunar month to the 17th day.
In Sichuan province
People will prepare a lot of food like moon cakes, ducks, glutinous rice cakes, and rice dumplings. In some places, people light orange lamps, or ask children run in the streets with pomeloes decorated with burning incense in their hands. In Jiading, they worship the God of the Land and play some local dramas to celebrate this special day.
In the North
People of Qingyun County in Shangdong province worship the God of Land as well as their ancestors on that day. In Lu
