Friday, September 21, 2007

Hong Kong: Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)

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Now is the time of Mooncake. This one has a very light pastry case filled with a dense, sweet lotus paste enveloping the salted egg yolk at its centre. Verily, a yin and yang for the taste buds.

Why? Mid-Autumn Festival is next week.

It's a really pretty festival. If everything goes according to plan, loads of people go down to Tung Wan beach and plant lighted candles in the sand.

Mind you, Hong Kong Government's Leisure and Cultural Services Department is vowing to spoil everyone's fun: press release

Still, its writ does not always run far or deep on a little island in the South China Sea. . . Tuesday night's the night. The day after? It's a public holiday.

Bon appétit!

2 comments:

962 said...

It has come to my attention that the extra 1000 staff will come in handy. By making them remove theit trousers and lie in the sand their arsehole can be used to hold a rather large candle and thus avoid spilling wax on the ground
A wonderfully useful means of utilising the services of LCSD

mister bijou said...

Hi, 962!

Thanks for comment. How you doing? Any nearer getting yr blog sorted? I left a suggestion on Hong Kong Redux about going to Template and deleting that script at the bottom (the line that includes oedemera.com). Doing so would get rid of all those adverts and links.

Yr readers look forward to more from blog 962b. Allbest, Mister B.