Posts Tagged Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes
Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes
Posted by lisa in shanghai travel on January 5th, 2010
Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes, moon cakes to eat every year, every year is different.
The fifties, when I was a kid. Mid-Autumn Festival to the mother the money to buy eight to a Soviet-style moon cakes, I eat, I remember when a small box of moon cakes are four installed and I am eating only one meal a sister, moon cakes, moon cakes eaten, that’s mooncakes Box is also reluctant to lose. That was my first Mid-Autumn Festival.
1959 Mid-Autumn Festival, I will never forget. Mid-Autumn Festival that year coincided with the eve of the Republic of Daqing a decade, Dad told me to go home, said: “* *, the factory made a Cantonese-style red bean paste moon cakes, I placed in dormitories, next week I bring you home to eat” . I am extremely happy, and such a large Cantonese-style red bean paste moon cakes I have not eaten it! After a week, and my father home. Dad did not mention moon cakes, and I do not dare to ask for fear of eating moon cakes early dreams shattered. It took another week to go home dad said to me: “* *, moon cakes have been placed on my head under the crushed-chen.” Wow! I dreamed of cakes gone. That was my most disappointing of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The sixties, I had a secondary school. In the three years of natural disasters, when the rice eating enough, never mind eat them moon cakes? But the Mid-Autumn Festival always have to eat moon cakes 呀! Later, her mother thought of one way: buy flour and brown sugar, make their own moon cakes – actually a package of bread with brown sugar. It was that I was the most bitter of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The seventies, my colleague at the grocery store I work. I have to eat moon cakes from a into a selling moon cakes. At that time Mid-Autumn Festival, we are very busy, and selling moon cakes, but also received money, but also received food stamps, but also received food stamps to 100 for a unit of paste together a broken food stamps would also like to put together paste is good, and then counting board account. In the past planned economy era, we in the food stamps on the circulation of charges of the tremendous human and material resources. At that time there is no food stamps one day we want to be nice ah!
Cantonese-style moon cakes were sub-type and wave of Soviet-style, specifications and a half two, and One 2 One and two and a half, as many as twenty or thirty kinds of varieties of moon cakes. We are a salesperson at the counter put a plate, put the customer to buy moon cakes, plate, and then one by one settlement. This business is for newcomers to the novice is to help not helpful at all. So from the seventies onwards, to the late eighties all the Mid-Autumn Festival, I have been busy to spend the.
In the meantime, there are two things to eat moon cakes are impressive: one about the 1975 Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a food factory is still hot cakes sent, and I greedy, money or bought a Soviet-style big roses, which only the moon cakes warm, fragrant, tastes great; On another occasion, about the 1979 Mid-Autumn Festival. I work passing Tilan Bridge food store, see the sale of cut-moon, I have spent money to buy a wide angle two big-peanut-yun, may be placed only moon for far too long and hard bang bang, I just change their eating habits devoured, small Jue slowly swallowing up and down is also very You Ziwei. Only moon cakes, I ate a long time.
By the nineties, I was job transfer and left the grocery store. At that time food stamp canceled, With no more food stamps to buy moon cakes had. But the moon to upgrade from food gifts, but the price also rose a lot. Many stores are operating boxed cakes, moon cakes to buy zero-down I do not know where there is only to buy it? About the 1999 Mid-Autumn Festival night, I suddenly remembered cakes do not buy it, I called out to buy her daughter, she ran a lot of places do not get the end finally in Pudong, “Yaohan”, has spent more than 50 yuan money to buy to a box of moon cakes, brought home, you’ll see that only a big moon, let me sell the old moon cakes, a salesperson opened the eyes.
Since 2002, my son to eat moon cakes are sent. I said to him: “Do not other moon cakes, but the ‘Xing Hua Lou’ or” New Asia ‘is red bean paste moon cakes on the list. “Eat red bean paste moon cakes childhood dream come true, but I can not eat, meal they can eat only a quarter of moon cakes. because I have a “three high” defects.
Alas! Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes every year and every year the story is different. The so-called True: Stories of moon cakes is small. I hope our Mid-Autumn Festival had a better year by year.