Day Three Hundred and Twenty-Nine - Yuebing

I'm not quite sure how it happened - it was probably the relentless advertising by Mandarin on the classic rock radio station - but I got it into my head that I would seek out an consume a mooncake. It was the Moon Festival and Toronto has a large Chinese population [word on the street is that there are three distinct Chinatowns in the city], so I thought tracking one down would be easy enough. And, it was...kinda...as my friend Kathryn came to my rescue and told me that she could procure one for me. So today I cycled over to my old office [9 kilometres! yeah!] and picked up my mooncake. Then tonight with some tea I ate a mooncake. I still have no idea what was inside, but it was not entirely unpleasant so I'm okay with it. My camera so did not want to focus on the mooncake, but here is the photo anyway. The design was very intricate and smooth feeling [although it did not smell great and yes, I must smell everything].


I was worried that I would really dislike it as I was told that mooncakes are typically very sweet and my friend Lisa said that she wasn't keen on them. So, I guess I was pleasantly surprised...although to be honest it didn't taste like too much. Ingredients that were definitely present were sesame seeds, slivered almonds [about 85% sure that's what they were] and some sort of sweet-ish [although not overwhelmingly so] brown-ish/transparent paste. I can't honestly say what the flavour was...it just...was. And no, I did not eat it outside under the moon. Because I was watching The First 48 and the harvest moon is finished anyway. I realize now that I should have taken a photo of the inside of the mooncake...but it's a little too late for that now.