In the Chinese culture, we celebrate what I call "Moon Cake Day." On this day, the moon is full and people gather together to drink tea and eat delicious moon cake. Little kids run around holding candle-lit lanterns or battery-powered lanterns, to be safe.
In Hong Kong, they celebrated the Mid Autumn Festival with a carnival at Causeway Bay. We went there expecting to see hundreds of little kids running around with the lanterns and moon cake stuffed in everyone's mouth. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. The carnival wasn't anything too spectacular so we left to buy some moon cake ice cream and hung out at Mong Kwok. The actual celebration of moon cake happened later that night in my room when we opened a box of egg-yoke moon cake and passed it around. That was when my saliva started to foam from the mouth...enough detail.
We got the day off from school the next day so that was great!!
Here are pictures:
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