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| Chinese moon cakes at Lotte |
Chuseok is a harvest festival. People visit their ancestral homes and enjoy good foods. In similar fashions, there are festivals associated with this same moon -- names like the Moon Festival or Children's Festival -- that range from Vietnam through China to the Philippines.
These are all opportunities for you to eat and learn a little culture. Groceries like Lotte are selling moon cakes and the sweet filled rice cakes called songpyeon. The songpyeon are Korean -- dumpling-sized rice cakes filled with sweet red bean paste, sesame seeds, and other flavors. The moon cakes are more Chinese. They're often thin crusts around a dense, sweet filing as well. You can't go wrong with sweets!
4 comments:
Thank's for the heads up again this year.
I live in Highland and drive by the Inn everyday--they still do not have a parking lot, so I do not think they will be opening any time soon.
For Japanese, it's called Otsukimi. We eat dango (a kind of sweet mochi.) Too bad I can only find dango in Japantown, NYC.
FYI- Lott Ellicott City only has red bean, H mart in Catonsville is out and Lotte Catonsville still has Egg Yolk, Red bean, Nut & Lotus paste as of today 9/23
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