Moon fest party!

Moon festival is one of the most important fest. in Chinese society,
the other two are Lunar new year and Dragon-boat festival.
These festivals are set to gather together with family,
take moon fest for example, we usually have a family dinner and watch the full moon together afterwards.
You can find the fests on lunar calendar, 15 of August in lunar calendar is the day we believe the moon would be the most reounded during the year,
which is a symbol of our tradition rounded table in every family.

This year, we are having the moon fest with our friends in Lyon.
So we decided to have a little party at our own kitchen,
and served original Taiwanese foods and snacks to them.
We’ve prepared the food for 2 days.

Left to right: Coke eggs(braised eggs，糖心蛋), Druken chicken(醉雞), Salad

Chinese dried pork
(This is the one of kind in Taiwan)

Braised pork(滷肉飯) and Scallion soup(大蔥湯)

and of course, lots of beer!

It is kind of weird that every family would barbeque during the moon fest,
it’s def. not the traditional way to celebrate, but you can imagine that
if the weather’s fine, why not barbeque outside and watch the moon all along?

Barbequed meats and toast

Unfortunately, we don’t have any tools foe grill in the domitory,
so we fried the meat with sause instead, together with roasted toast.

Slides of moon fest

Also, Paul, our CEE, chief entertainment executive, prepared a slide for introducing the origin of moon fest, we played this slides during the party.

There were so many people helping us to cook, esp. our German chef, Nora,
she did a good job in roasting the toasts.

So many friends were invited and we’ve also prepared two dishes for vegetarians,
one is salad and the other is Taiwanese fried vegetable.

Alison invited her friend, Sophie to join us, and she can speak quite lot of Mandarin.

From left to right,
Gloria, Me*, Kris, Joey*, Jose*, Federico, Mathias*, Carlton, Toby and Cynthia.
The names with star are the ones sharing the same kitchen.

I was telling about the story of Cheng-Er, the lady live on the moon,
and her pet, the Jade rabbit.

I brought a package of pineapple pie here and some Chinese friend contributed 4 moon cakes, so these are the dessert of the night.
Along with the moon cake, we also served Taiwanese oo-long tea for everyone.
(Of course the liquid in my cup was tea!)

 

These are the staff team of the party,
Left to right,
Alison, kitchen assistant,
Ya-wen, Temp in kitchen,
Fookie, kitchen assistant,
Joey, Chef,
ME, cooker,
and Paul, CEE.

We had a high time and since everybody’s leaving, we stay in the kitchen playing cards until 5:00 in the morning…