Happy Mid-Autumn!

Häagen Dazs ice-cream mooncakes. Photo courtesy of Häagen Dazs.

Today is the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. It's a harvest festival that falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month every year, and it's one of the most important holidays in China. The celebration calls for the whole family to come together and have dinner (much like Thanksgiving). Instead of turkey, the main feature of the feast is mooncake, a round pastry filled with paste, traditionally made with lotus seed paste, red bean paste, or five kernel. Our favorite ones always had an egg yolk in the middle.

Over the years, the making of mooncakes has become more innovative in terms of flavors (we've seen green tea, chocolate, ham, durian, and cheese, to name a few). This year though, we're seriously craving Häagen Dazs' ice-cream mooncakes! They're new to us, but have been out in Asia for a couple of years. I saw them in Shanghai last week, but sadly haven't found them in the States. They should be available in many Asian countries, so if you're one of the lucky ones there, make sure to try them.

Happy Mid-Autumn!