Tag Mooncakes
This Friday night, a billion people will look up at the same full moon. What the Mid-Autumn Festival really means, why the mooncake is cut and shared but never eaten alone, and how to take part this week — from anywhere in the world.
Is the five-kernel mooncake a classic or an abomination? The annual argument proves something remarkable: a pastry with a 1,000-year paper trail — Tang palace legends, Ming rebellion stories, and the wooden molds hiding on every festival table.