happy moon festival, y'all. it's a time to watch the full moon w/friends + family + eat lots of food, of course. here in abq i wouldn't know where to get a moon cake, but lucky for me, i have an uncle in taiwan who decided to start shipping them to me every year. thanks, uncle #4!
my mom says that back in the day of mongolian oppression, chinese ppl used moon cakes to pass messages to each other about secret resistance meetings. so i guess moon cakes were an old school version of twitter. damn those mongols! they couldn't hold us chinese ppl down though- just look at how good today's chinese government is at oppressing other ethnic minorities (see previous post on displaced tibetan monks). sigh.
