National Day & Mid-autumn festival
Tomorrow the Golden Week starts. It’s the National Day 国庆节 tomorrow and on this occasion it’s one week off for most people. During this period, huge quantity of people travel from city to city, to see relatives or to relax and visit some other areas of China. No need to say that it’s really hard to find travel tickets (air/train/coach) and hotel rooms….
This year, the mid-autumn festival 中秋节 falls during the golden week. It’s the 6th of October. So an additional reason for the Chinese to go and have fun, or better still, to be with relatives.
A friend of mine gave me some food to eat as I was taking the train to Beijing. On examining the contents, I found it was the type of cakes we ate during the mid-autumn festival back home. Will try and post a picture of them later. No moon cake though.
Update: Pictures of the snacks received.
Posted: September 30th, 2006 under China, Food and Beverage, Leisure, Lifestyle, Transport.
Comments
Comment from Raymond
Time October 2, 2006 at 9:11 pm
White mooncake? You lost me here…. I only remember the long, rectangular, white, sweet and sticky thing with a pink middle layer. That was nice.
I have uploaded picture of the snacks received. They don’t resemble too much from the ones back home as they are wrapped up in bite size portions. I already ate part of them, so not much left. 
Comment from Evil_c
Time October 3, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Kan sa? Le 6. Pas p tane narien ici…I took the finger like sticky thing with tea. Somebody knows how to cook gato ginger?? Thks to give the recipe to me.
Comment from aline
Time October 2, 2006 at 10:22 am
what did your friend give you?
Here, I’m looking for the white mooncakes that we have in Mauritius. Haven’t seen it here yet.