One of them bought 300 boxes of mooncakes, with nine pieces in them. “Even though we sold out, our customers are still trying to buy mooncakes. Bakeries in Los Angeles had all hands on deck to cook batches of mooncakes to meet the demand. The 99 Ranch Market is a common store to buy mooncakes, according to several students. “While celebrating with my family, I love it when we have mooncakes with the lotus paste and a salty egg yolk in the center,” said Shawn Gao, an undergraduate student of neuroscience. Other varieties of the delicacy cater to a diverse palette. I have a favorite brand called Mei-Xin back in Hong Kong, China, which translates to ‘beautiful heart.’”
“I like the nontraditional ones with matcha, egg yolks or mochi stuffings. “We bought four large boxes of mooncakes,” said Jing Jing Long, a faculty member of Student Affairs at USC. They are round pastries made with stuffings of individual choices like lotus paste and red beans, and often contain salted yolks inside. The mooncakes, a Chinese delicacy, are distributed among families and friends - a symbol of unity and camaraderie.
21 for the start of the Mid-Autumn Festival with their friends, sharing feasts and finishing with mooncakes for dessert. The traditional festival, also known as the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival, is celebrated in several Southeast Asian countries including China, Vietnam, Japan and Singapore and is a national holiday in some parts of the world, like Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea.Īt the University of Southern California, dozens of students and faculty who are away from home gathered on Sept. “We still try our best to find time to meet each other during this time of the year as it makes us feel united, and we definitely eat lots of mooncakes,” said Chen, an undergraduate student majoring in communication. However, his love for the hallmark tradition of eating mooncakes could not be dampened even slightly. The merriment lasts a week, but for the past two years, it has been cut short to just one day due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Matthew Chen’s Mid-Autumn Festival usually comprises a room resounding with the laughter of close relatives and friends, sharing food and mooncakes.
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