Mid Autumn festival is a Chinese festival which is celebrated in Melbourne as well as China. Here people love to eat mooncakes and in Melbourne you can find them in Chinatown as well as Breadtop. You can also find them in Box Hill and elsewhere in Melbourne such as Springvale.
It is a family affair which falls on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar. This year it is on the 25th of September. Families share mooncakes and fruits. But for those overseas Chinese they just look up to the sky and think of their families.
The story behind the Mid Autumn festival was when the gods flew to the moon and back. It was full moon. In China this is the harvest period where the food is plentiful for everyone
RNIS went to the one at Couch as they were invited by City of Melbourne to partake in the mooncake eating and enjoy some performances. And they did that. There was the usual party foods but they only took the spring rolls and the samosas. The other things were not really Asian as such.
But the costumes were spectacular and so was the music. There should have been a lion dance as that would have been enjoyable.
The mooncakes were good too. They loved the lotus one the best.
They had a good Mid year festival this year both at Crown and at the Couch.
It is a family affair which falls on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar. This year it is on the 25th of September. Families share mooncakes and fruits. But for those overseas Chinese they just look up to the sky and think of their families.
The story behind the Mid Autumn festival was when the gods flew to the moon and back. It was full moon. In China this is the harvest period where the food is plentiful for everyone
RNIS went to the one at Couch as they were invited by City of Melbourne to partake in the mooncake eating and enjoy some performances. And they did that. There was the usual party foods but they only took the spring rolls and the samosas. The other things were not really Asian as such.
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| The plain sweet lotus one |
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| The salted egg one |
But the costumes were spectacular and so was the music. There should have been a lion dance as that would have been enjoyable.
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| Fanta |
They had a good Mid year festival this year both at Crown and at the Couch.
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