Since the Moon Festival was drawing near, the leaders of the rebellion ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cakes was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government.
Another legend, Lady O-Chang who was the beautiful wife of a skilled general, accidentally found the pill of immortality that was hidden by her darling general and swallowed (without thinking first). After that she just floated in the sky and towards the moon and got lost I guess.
To read more about the Goddess of the moon, click here --> The Moon Lady
There, I've finally discovered the history behind it. Done my homework. Time for moon cakes~
nice box... gonna get some taste of it
crap... still wrapped up nicely
another nice lookin box of moon cakes
tiu... this one is also not unwrapped yetNormally, the elderly Chinese people would tell you that it is nice to consume those cakes with some hot tea. Those chinese tea of course, not ice lemon tea. My mom wasn't at home to make tea when I went digging for moon cakes so I ate them with this:
*LoL* Just kidding man. Moon cakes already contain so much amount of sugar. I don't think you want alcohol to go in with it.
the real thing~
Now this is one moon cake I don't mind forking out lots of cash for. Thanks Vincent :-P