Mid-Autumn Calories

Red Red Lantern Hanging up High ~Happy Mid－Autumn Festival大紅燈籠高高掛～中秋節快樂
Swiped from Pisces Romance (Away 3 Days).

Note: This post is as stale as post-festival mooncakes with a 50% discount!

For some reason, mooncakes don't do it for me anymore. There is no craving. I used to love it. Pick at the fragrant egg yolk hidden in the sweet filling. Savouring each cholesterol-laden bite. Now, I normally only eat one piece (one eight of a mooncake) and down it with copious amounts of hot tea. It just shuts down my digestive system. Some kind of reflex action. Maybe because today's mooncakes are too rich. The paste too smooth (just like cakes, the moister it is, the more butter it contains, so the smoother the paste, the more oil was used) and sweet. And the ridiculous new flavours. Fusion. East meets West. Moon Goddess meets Courtney Love. It's just plain weird. I still would prefer the traditional varieties. Make mine mild and light. Like those agar-agar mooncakes. So far, the most novel mooncake I've had this year was a homemade maki-style orange-flavoured mooncake. Masyallah.

No caltrops nor mini yams this year. My mum, SK, HP and Khiam had joined a neighbourhood pot luck, but I had missed it due to work. But still, they ta pau-ed for me sting-ray curry, vienegar pork trotters, abacus seeds, roast duck and fried noodles. Woo hoo! Ater dinner, we went back to my place to "relive our childhood". Four grown ups lit some paper lanterns (still around, despise those battery-operated ones. But can you imagine that they sell plastic sticks now? I used to use bamboo!) and walked around the playground. Twirling our lanterns and stopping at the gazebo to light candles. We stayed there for a while until the mosquitos drove us indoors. Quite a fun night, but I guess things can never feel the same anymore. Some things should only be left as memories.

Hope everyone had a fun Mid Autumn Festival.