Mooncakes Over Singapore Tonight the Harvest moon will rise.  (And tonight with a special space bonus, the moon is going to float just above the planet Uranus.) In honor, we are off to Chinatown to get a dozen of these lovely mooncakes, a staple of  Mid-Autumn Festival in Chinese regions. In this 2007 piece, Karen Coates explains the tradition. 

Mooncakes Over Singapore

Tonight the Harvest moon will rise.  (And tonight with a special space bonus, the moon is going to float just above the planet Uranus.)

In honor, we are off to Chinatown to get a dozen of these lovely mooncakes, a staple of  Mid-Autumn Festival in Chinese regions.

In this 2007 piece, Karen Coates explains the tradition. 

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