Houston Community News >> Super Moon Cakes Made for Mid-Autumn Festival
9/24/2007 BEIJING -- Citizens
in a dozen of Chinese cities had opportunities to taste super moon cakes while
the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching.
In Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, hundreds of people ate
up a 40-kilogram moon cake within one hour on Wednesday.
Among those tasting the pastry were athletes, construction workers, farmers, and
citizens living near the Lanzhou Sports Park.
It took the chefs nearly six hours to make the cake, which is 2.8 meters in
diameter.
Organizers of the activity named the moon cake the "China 2.8" in honor of the
2008 Beijing Olympics and the
Moon Cake Festival, which fell on next
Tuesday this year, a festival marked by Chinese around the world as a day of
family reunion.
One month ago, a super large moon cake weighing nearly 13 tons, was made in
Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Referred to as the "No. 1 of Chinese
Moon Cakes," this cake is 8.15
meters in diameter and 20 centimeters in height, and has a coating weighing one
ton, and filling weighing 12 tons.
It took ten chefs more than 10 hours to make the king cake.
Moon cakes are a popular pastry eaten by the Chinese during the Mid-Autumn
Festival. During this holiday, tens of millions of moon cakes are consumed
throughout the country.
Contributed by China Daily