If you’ve ever stepped foot in an Asian bakery or grocery store during autumn, you’ve probably seen stacks of assorted boxes with variations of the popular Chinese pastry: the mooncake.

The last time man reached the moon ... the Mid-Autumn Festival — a Chinese lunar holiday that falls on Sept. 19 and commemorates the end of the summer harvest. Families and friends swap the ...

Mooncakes are the hallmark ... eaten around the time when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and brightest. They’re given as gifts to family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers and ...

In 2024, the Mid-Autumn Festival, or the Moon Festival, falls on September ... sliced up and shared like a cake between families and friends. The most well-known kind of mooncake is made of ...

Instead of looking for the man in the moon, try looking for the lady the next time the moon is full. According to Chinese legend, the beautiful and divine lady Chang’e (pronounced chung-er ...

It was a snowskin mooncake that first stopped me in my tracks. Tinted with butterfly pea for a tie-dye midnight sky, her bingpi yuebing is debossed with a floating lantern, rabbit, and moon.

“The Moon Festival was the largest festival ... for a little more than a month, and the friends and family who have been enjoying her mooncakes for some time — and encouraging her to sell ...

Traditionally round to mirror the shape of the moon ... any Mid-Autumn Festival celebration, with people often sharing the decadent treats with family or gifting boxes to relatives and friends ...