Last night was part of the mooncake festival and I was allowed to have duck.
Duck is one of the special foods for the festival:
The mooncake festival marks the end of the autumn harvest, and is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. The official festival day was Friday 13 September.
Last night the moon was certainly very full and bright. I'm surprised Thygo did not post a moon photograph.
We were also still celebrating #3 daughter's important birthday, and she had a second birthday cake of her favourite kind, ie a family meat pie.
Apparently Duck Rather than Chicken is the go-to fowl for this festival. Not only are ducks fattest at this time of the year, their natural game-meat flavour is the richest too, making it the peak season to enjoy duck meat. It is also believed that eating duck in Autumn helped to expel pathogenic heat to restore the balance of yin and yang in the body, hence enhancing one’s health. I'm only allowed duck once a year. Python gets it all the time so he must have a perfect yin and yang balance.
We got a whole Peking Duck, chopped up to go:
Adding to the festivities, Satay Chicken :
Desert, the birthday meat pie:
Where is the moon?
Since Thygo hasn't done a photograph, I have done one. B700:
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