moon cakes are NOT for Chinese New Year

hi, geof,

sorry to cut the line here. But i can tell you that moon cakes are NOT for Chinese New Year at all. (I am a Chinese.) They are for Mid-Autumn Festivel. You can bring a Chinese New Year Cake instead. I will see if I have a recipe for you and post later. But a word of warning. Both moon cakes and new year cakes aren't easy to preapre. As far as I see, anything cookies will do. Chinese believes sweets are good for New Year. Or just bring some Mandarin oranges (the ones that have to be peeled not cut.) as Chinese consider them a symble of good fortune. Just make sure that you bring numbers of 2, 6, 8, or 10, any even numbers but not 4 as it sounds like "death" in Chinese.

hope this helps

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Replies:

	Request: Chinese Moon Cake Recipe
	Imelda Girard - 5-18-1998
	MSG ID: 03775
	1	Recipe(tried): Moon Cakes
		Judy Lee, S'pore - 6-24-1998
		MSG ID: 03775
	2	Re: Moon Cakes
		Imelda Girard, Canada - 6-27-1998
		MSG ID: 03908
	3	Recipe(tried): Moon Cake Recipe
		Judy Lee - 6-30-1998
		MSG ID: 03929
	4	Re: Moon Cake Recipe
		Imelda Girard, Canada - 7-6-1998
		MSG ID: 03939
	5	Recipe: Mooncakes
		Judy/AZ - 9-22-1998
		MSG ID: 031396
	6	ISO: chinese new year moon cakes
		Geof in Ontario - 1-25-2001
		MSG ID: 03908
	7	moon cakes are NOT for Chinese New Year
		eggy/m'sia - 1-26-2001
		MSG ID: 035175
	8	Recipe: more on Chinese New Year celebration
		eggy/m'sia - 1-26-2001
		MSG ID: 035175
	9	Recipe: Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Recipes
		Jenifer Atlanta - 1-29-2003
		MSG ID: 03775
	10	ISO: moon cake recipe
		sophie, s'pore - 8-11-2005
		MSG ID: 03908
	11	Recipe: Moon Cake Recipe for Sophie,s'pore
		Barbara, Ms - 8-13-2005
		MSG ID: 039226
	12	ISO: moon cake - snow white premix (ice-skin)
		Penny, Kuching - 9-3-2005
		MSG ID: 03908
	13	ISO: Snow Skin Mooncake
		Yenny, Indonesia - 9-9-2005
		MSG ID: 039310
	14	ISO: Moon cake recipe
		Sue Brown, Denver, CO, USA - 9-22-2005
		MSG ID: 03908
	15	Recipe(tried): Nutty Moon Cake Recipe
		Karen, Malaysia - 9-24-2005
		MSG ID: 03775
	16	Recipe: Fried Glutinous Rice Flour (koa fun)
		CT-kansas USA - 8-29-2006
		MSG ID: 039405
	17	ISO: Moon Cakes - question
		hazel - s'pore - 9-11-2006
		MSG ID: 031398
	18	ISO: Moon cake recipe - questions
		sally from germany - 9-11-2006
		MSG ID: 03775
	19	Golden syrup for mooncakes
		Mitzi from California - 9-19-2006
		MSG ID: 0310468
	20	re: Snow skin mooncake
		hazel - 9-21-2006
		MSG ID: 039348
	21	Recipe(tried): Golden Syrup, Alkaline water and Traditional Mooncake skin
		CT-KS - 9-26-2006
		MSG ID: 0310502
	22	ISO: moon cake - what is golden syrup?
		diane,usa - 8-30-2008
		MSG ID: 03908
	23	ISO: Cantonese chewy type moon cake
		L. Nguyen, Harvey, LA - 10-2-2008
		MSG ID: 03908

Title:	moon cakes are NOT for Chinese New Year
Board:	International Recipes at Recipelink.com
From:	eggy/m'sia 1-26-2001
To:	ISO: chinese new year moon cakes
MSG ID: 035176

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