Holiday Food & Drink
Mooncake
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<holidayfyi-glossary slug="mooncake"></holidayfyi-glossary>A traditional Chinese pastry eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, typically filled with lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often containing a salted egg yolk representing the full moon. Mooncakes are exchanged as gifts among family and friends and come in countless regional variations including snow skin (uncooked), Cantonese, and Suzhou styles. They have become an iconic symbol of the festival worldwide.