Mid-Autumn Festival

Since I got the day off for the holiday, I decided to find out what Mid-Autumn Festival was really all about. Rachel and I went to Victoria Park to see people "enjoying the moon." This involved huge lantern installations, a fire dragon made out of incense and many families sitting out on the lawn, light candles and eating mooncakes. Mooncakes, the special food of the holiday, are heavy, sweet pastries with egg yokes inside. Since not very many people actually like traditional mooncakes, there are also new, trendy mooncakes, like snowy mooncakes, ice cream mooncakes, even Starbucks mooncakes (although grape and coffee flavor doesn't sound that good either). Mooncakes are quite expensive, despite no one really liking the normal kind.
It rained off and on all night, which greatly delayed the fire dragon but made the park much less crowded that it would have been. Here are a few pictures of the festivities: