The third biggest celebration on the Chinese calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month every year. It is also known as the Moon Cake Festival because of a special kind of sweet cake made for this special celebration. There are many different kinds of moon cakes. The most common have a flakey crust and are filled with ground sweet lotus seed and sometimes also contain a duck egg.
As an acknowledgment to my Chinese heritage I try to get moon cake at this time of the year. I’m currently searching for the best place to get moon cake in Los Angeles. Any suggestions? I’ll probably just go to a Chinese market…
I buy Shanghai sytle mooncake every year at a Chinese market on broadway, next to San Francisco’s chinatown.
Since I just moved to southern Cal last year, I no longer know where to get the Shanghai mooncake no more. Thanks.
Please let me know once you find out yourself, cause I’m intereseted myself also.
Otherwise, I’d just wander in those chinese super market in Alhambra, Montery Park & Rowland Heights. I’m sure somewhwere they do carry them.
I personally love the mooncakes from Kee Wah bakeries, though I am not sure if those are Shanghai mooncakes. You can find them in most Chinese communities in Los Angeles, including Rowland Heights, Monterey Park areas. The supermarkets also carry Kee Wah mooncakes but you will find a lot more variety in the bakeries.