Moon Festival

We celebrated our 2nd Moon Festival this year. Thanks to London’s great Chinatown, we enjoyed a delicious meal with our friend from China who introduced the holiday to us last year.

Creamy tofu with mushrooms…

I’ve always thought I only liked firm tofu, but this stuff was heavenly. We also had some very spicy fish with vegetables…

And a couple other dishes, but by the time they arrived I was too busy eating to worry about photos.

And of course we ended the meal with some moon cakes…

I love, love, love being able to share in holidays with our international friends!

Moon Festival

The wife’s Chinese teammate was kind enough to go into Dublin’s Chinatown and bought us all mooncakes for the recent Moon Festival. This is a harvest festival in China that falls on the autumn equinox and these cakes are shared between family and friends.

So last Wednesday we had this little treat in celebration of the big beautiful moon…



C said they came in a huge variety of flavors, both sweet and savory. She bought us a sweet version and inside was a slightly sweet and very dense mixture of lotus seed paste with a yellow “moon” in the center.

One of the things I love most about being on the road is the myriad of holidays we get exposed to, either from the locals we’re living amongst or from other people on the team. I have every intention of adopting more than a few of these so get ready for some random parties when we move home.