Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Asian holiday also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, which celebrates the brightest and fullest moon 🌝 of the year as well as the Fall harvest.

In China, the holiday is celebrated similar to Thanksgiving with families gathering for a meal accompanied by lantern lighting. To celebrate the annual #mooncakefestival yesterdayday, we visited the family-owned Golden Fung Wong Bakery on Mott Street in Chinatown to purchase #mooncakes 🥮 which are round pastries traditionally filled with red bean or lotus seed paste wrapped around a salted egg yolk that symbolizes the moon and gives them a sweet and savory flavor. The #mooncake is then pressed into molds to emboss the top with elaborate designs. Fung Wong is one of the few bakeries in New York City which sells mooncakes year-round as well as other #Chinese pastries and cookies.  

• To watch our livestream visit to Chinatown and see our “Mooncake Battle” where we try mooncakes from three different bakeries, please subscribe to our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story. 

• Full video livestream: https://youtu.be/gnphZmA7Yjo