As the Fall semester gets into full swing, we’ve been spending time eating lunch with my students:
One recent lunch gave us the opportunity to eat “fish noodles” for the first time:
Some other interesting foods given to us by students included a whole cooked chicken:
some hawthorn snacks in a patriotic Chinese package:
and a beautifully decorated cake:
But this week, the most common cake in China was the humble moon cake:
Like most people in China, I ate three of them. My consumption was slightly above average, so I figure that at least 3 billion moon cakes were eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival!
S // Sep 29, 2018 at 4:35 am
The cake looks impressive!
Barbara Schumann // Sep 29, 2018 at 3:22 pm
I also am impressed with that cake. Taking a closer look, did it have tomatoes on it?
Karen L. // Sep 30, 2018 at 4:58 am
Very interesting as usual. The cake is grand—was it tasty? Loved seeing your family in the former posts. They’re growing so fast!
Regina // Sep 30, 2018 at 8:16 am
Mark, because of the city lights behind you, it actually looks like you’re about a moon cake and a nail!
admin // Oct 1, 2018 at 5:12 pm
The city lights are quite amazing – almost every new building has animated LEDs (a good topic for a future blog!)
admin // Oct 1, 2018 at 5:14 pm
The cakes here are very fancy on the outside, but fairly plain on the inside. An assortment of fruit is common, and yes, tomatoes are included as fruit here!
caitlyn // Oct 2, 2018 at 4:43 am
Mmmm I miss noodles! Those look so yummy!