Mooncake
ObjectDesserts and Pastries
Chinese baked pastry traditionally eaten at Mid-Autumn Festival
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Mooncake
- Desserts and Pastries
- Chinese Cuisine
A mooncake is a Chinese baked item traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is shared among friends and at family gatherings, and is also commonly given as a present to clients or relatives. Many varieties are eaten in China and overseas Chinese communities. The best-known variety is the Cantonese mooncake, a round pastry with a thin crust and a rich filling, often lotus seed paste.
- Traditional festival
- Mid-Autumn Festival
- Most famous variety
- Cantonese mooncake
- Typical filling
- Lotus seed paste
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Mooncake (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q197969
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Fanny Schertzer. CC BY-SA 3.0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsFanny Schertzer, Own workModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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