Belated Moon Celebration

[ziasudra]

Yesterday was Mid-Autumn Festival (for more information on the holiday, see my post last year on it), but my roommates and I did nothing to observe the day. I always thought it a disadvantage to live in a city during holidays when one needs to look above all the tall buildings to see celestial bodies. I definitely couldn't see the moon from my apartment window ;p

So I had a belated happy-mid-autumn-festival dinner tonight in Chinatown with sunnydlita, everydaysushi, and other friends. Seven-odd dishes from Yeah Shanghai and the total came out to only $7 per person! We had yummy soup dumplings and turnip pastry thingies and shreded tofu skin, among other things.

I managed to buy another batch of logan fruit before they disappear for good as summer ends. Still $5 per pound, without stems. Not bad.

Tomorrow, I shall eat moon cake, just to complete this year's Mid-Autumn Festival experiece *g*

Comments

[xingou.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, Steven hasn't tried to make me eat moon cake yet this year. I just really don't like the stuff.

Shi nin kwi la! (I know I spelled that wrong, but I would do even worse trying to write it out in pinyin.)

[ziasudra.livejournal.com]

Haha, but I love moon cakes! I like the kind without the egg yolk most -- I think I'm just a fan of the lotus filling. Happy belated Moon Festival to you!

[xingou.livejournal.com]

See, the lotus filling is the part that I don't like. Hee. Thanks hun!

[tanechigai.livejournal.com]

Happy Autumn! My favorite time of year :) Go look at some orange leaves for me!

[ziasudra.livejournal.com]

You know, the first image that came to mind when you said oragne leaves was the fall scene in Animal Crossing ^_^;;

I love autumn (though my favorite season is still winter, I think). The cooler air, the still-relatively-bright days, the periodic heat waves interspersed with crisp days. Too bad I'm indoors 90%+ of the time.

[sunnydlita.livejournal.com]

Sorry again for making you wait, but I'm glad you came!

My buddy Sara loved the turnip pastry, so thanks for introducing those to her!

[ziasudra.livejournal.com]

No problem. I was actually enjoying a rare alone moment when standing outside and waiting for you guys :)

I've started to order the turnip pastry at almost every Shanghainese restaurants I go to. Can you believe that the Shanghainese place I used to work at didn't have this dish? It's so yummm.

[everydaysushi.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm dinner was soooooo good. Yeah Shanghai is not bad, not bad at all. :P Yeah sometimes at Green Bo, they'll give you one red been and one turnip pastry (b/c they come in twos)... but sometimes they're not in such a good mood to do that. Mmmmm... can we make this a weekly outing to Chinatown? :)

[ziasudra.livejournal.com]

I was eating the leftovers from dinner just now... still as yummy as Saturday :)

I'd love to help sunnydlita on her project to eat at every Shanghainese restaurant in Chinatown. There are at least three other places I can think of that we can go to and have a very good meal.