moon cakes are NOT for Chinese New Year

	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

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:

	ISO: Chinese Moon Cake
	Imelda Girard - 5-18-1998
	1	re: Moon Cakes
		Judy Lee, S'pore - 6-24-1998
	2	Re: Moon Cakes
		Imelda Girard, Canada - 6-27-1998
	3	Recipe(tried): Moon Cake, Bean Paste and How to Season a Moon Cake Mold
		Judy Lee - 6-30-1998
	4	Re: Moon Cake Recipe
		Imelda Girard, Canada - 7-6-1998
	5	Recipe: Mooncakes
		Judy/AZ - 9-22-1998
	6	ISO: chinese new year moon cakes
		Geof in Ontario - 1-25-2001
	7	moon cakes are NOT for Chinese New Year
		eggy/m'sia - 1-26-2001
	8	Recipe: more on Chinese New Year celebration
		eggy/m'sia - 1-26-2001
	9	Recipe: Mid-Autumn Moon Cakes
		Jenifer Atlanta - 1-29-2003
	10	ISO: moon cake recipe
		sophie, s'pore - 8-11-2005
	11	Recipe: Moon Cake Recipe for Sophie,s'pore
		Barbara, Ms - 8-13-2005
	12	ISO: moon cake - snow white premix (ice-skin)
		Penny, Kuching - 9-3-2005
	13	ISO: Snow Skin Mooncake
		Yenny, Indonesia - 9-9-2005
	14	ISO: Moon cake recipe
		Sue Brown, Denver, CO, USA - 9-22-2005
	15	Recipe(tried): Nutty Moon Cake Recipe
		Karen, Malaysia - 9-24-2005
	16	Recipe: Fried Glutinous Rice Flour (koa fun)
		CT-kansas USA - 8-29-2006
	17	ISO: Moon Cakes - question
		hazel - s'pore - 9-11-2006
	18	ISO: Moon cake recipe - questions
		sally from germany - 9-11-2006
	19	Golden syrup for mooncakes
		Mitzi from California - 9-19-2006
	20	re: Snow skin mooncake
		hazel - 9-21-2006
	21	Recipe(tried): Traditional Mooncake skin, Golden Syrup, Alkaline water
		CT-KS - 9-26-2006
	22	ISO: moon cake - what is golden syrup?
		diane,usa - 8-30-2008
	23	ISO: Cantonese chewy type moon cake
		L. Nguyen, Harvey, LA - 10-2-2008
	24	ISO: Chinese Moon Cakes
		Janine Pitman - Bali - 9-22-2009
	25	Recipe: How to Make Moon Cake (recipes and video)
		Betsy at Recipelink.com - 9-22-2009

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