Hamster on Fire

In 2021, we had no shortage of mooncakes at home. To avoid being buried in mooncakes, we had to eat at leas three mooncakes a night. My sister and BIL kept received mooncakes from their friends and suppliers. Teochew and Shanghai mooncakes were de rigueur this year. Even Apollo's mum gave out a batch of those delicious layered pastries with yam filling. One thing I didn't like about this year's mooncakes was the subpar salted duck egg yolks (specialists would talk about colour, oil exudation, and grittiness lol). And of course, there were specialty mooncakes like 

Henry the Hamster joined this year's celebration, and he had fun frolicking in a pomelo skin. Even took a bite out of it. We lit a wood and paper lantern (like an andon) with a tea light, and got Little Monster to pose with Henry. The restless hamster flew out of his hand and into the lantern causing quite a scare! When we finally got Henry out, he was a bit shaken and he licked himself at several spots. Luckily there were no sign of burns. Selamat!