Happy 中秋

Saturday was a good day......
one of the most important chinese festival
it has few English name....
mid-autumn festival...mooncake festival...lantern festival....
whatever you call it....
it is a festival about moon......
and always be a day for mooncake and lantern and candles.....
and reunion dinner....
too bad my bro couldn't come back for it.... =<

my mom suppose to go to a wedding dinner.....
since it's "Zhong Qiu Jie"....she chose to have dinner with us.....
had a simple celebration with my family after a super full dinner.....
to create the environment of this festival......
we need to prepare quite a few things.....

FIRST of all

MOONCAKEsss

many of them.......
we started eating mooncakes two weeks in advance....XD
so some of the boxes in the picture are actually empty....

for sure.....not only mooncake on the table....
some traditional food.....yam and pamelo....
and some fruit....nut which I dunno the name....and
mooncake in jelly form....(my mum made it for the 1st time)

the best match with the sweet mooncakes.....
CHINESE TEA

then
.
.
.
LANTERN
not only one.....



ME
working hard to create a warm and romantic environment....hehe..

after that......

CANDLES......

put the candles on little pieces of wood.....
so that the wax wouldn't melt and stick on the wall....
which is extremely hard to clear....

food...checked
lantern...checked
candles...checked
done with the setting....
so
my family and I were chit-chating happily.....
enjoying the great food on table....
at a warm and nice environment...
surrounded by candles and lanterns......
then.....
in the middle of our happy chat.....
we smelt something....
like something burned.......
then my mom shouted "oi!!!! the lantern burn lo!!! quickly save it!!!!"

this incident happens every year...
during mid-autumn festival.....
so we managed to react fast.....
before the lantern burned into ash fully....XD

had a simple yet happy celebration......
went to bed around 12am....
with a full stomach filled with a lot of mooncakes and tea and fruit....
need to diet already.....
if not, my face gonna be like a mooncake.....T.T