The Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon cake or Lantern festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th Lunar calendar i.e.: 3/10/2009.
The offerings for the Moon Goddess are Moon cake, Taro, Lengkok, Chestnut, Pomelo, Peanuts, Chinese tea......etc.
Lengkok -Water Caltrop (Trapa natans) an aquatic plant that looks like a pair of buffalo horns is only available once a year and it's signifies perseverance.
Of all the offerings, I am fascinated with the Lengkok (water caltrop-trapa natans) which can be eaten and can be make into a spinning top (video).
To savor it's nutty flesh-crack it up with a hammer.
9 comments:
Looks great! We don't do the offerings ourselves, but we do enjoy the moon cakes! Your offerings look delicious! : P
i've always wondered how to eat that!!!
Hahaha..... ah, too bad that you don't believe on Moon Goddess anymore, it's like when we found out that there's no real Santa Claus.
Wow, those mooncakes are so colorful and bold! Haven't seen such variance in colors in my area. Lots of mooncakes to choose from, but none are that colorful!
i like the alien looking black stuff and it can spin, wow something from outer space...
Alice-thanks!
Duckie-use a nut cracker of a hammer.
Selba-yes the same perception.
ETEat-those are homemade Jelly mooncake.
STLim-are you sure you have not eaten it before?
Now I learn it, thanks. So far, I have not try any yet.
lengkok looks like the devil!
LInbox-go and try it.
C&Ciki-yeah! esp on close up.
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