Lotus seed paste

Moon Cake Festival: A Mid-Autumn Festival (Chung Chiu), the third major festival of the Chinese calendar, is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month. This festival corresponds to harvest festival s observed by Western cultures (in Hong Kong, it is held in conjunction with the annual Lantern Festival). Contrary to what most people believe, this festival probably has less to do with harvest festivities than with the philosophically minded chinese of old. The union of man's spirit with nature

Being Chinese-Vietnamese American, I have always seen myself as being very unique. In addition to celebrating the Western holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, and Valentine’s Day, my family celebrates our mixture of Chinese and Vietnamese cultures with two other big holidays: Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Although many cultures celebrate holidays differently, one thing is always consistent in most of these celebrations: the important role of food. When

were lotus seed and red bean pastes. Due to the modernisation of mooncakes to keep it ‘on track’ with the current food trends and attempts to cater to the health concerns of some people, many varieties of mooncakes have occurred, such as ones made out of ice cream and some of fruit and vegetables. In some places, even seafood mooncakes can be found.4 After dinner, we decided to bring our mooncakes and fruit down to the park so that we could have them whilst appreciating the moon. We had lotus seed

potatoes and black tea with a spoonful or two of sugar. Phillip Phillip 2 9. Koki Hayashi, 4 years old, Tokyo Green peppers stir-fried with tiny dried fish, soy sauce and sesame seeds; raw egg mixed with soy sauce and poured over hot rice; dish of lotus and burdock roots and carrots (kinpir) sautéed with sesame-seed oil, soy sauce and a sweet rice wine called mirin; miso soup; grapes; sliced Asian pear; and milk. Koki KOki 2 10. Oyku Ozarslan, 9 years old, Istanbul Brown bread with green and

and grew their own vegetables to create meals similar to those in Japan. Japanese immigrants also ate mochi, roasted rice cakes, and Chinese immigrants prepared mooncakes, rich pastries traditionally containing the yolks of salted duck eggs and lotus seed

Ella Sarachan 12/3/2015 Ethnography of Tea Background China The origins of tea are rooted in China (Food Timeline). According to legend, the beneficial properties of tea were first discovered by the Emperor Shen Nung in the year 2737 B.C. He drank only boiled water for hygienic purposes, and one day while he drank a breeze rustled the branches of a tree and a few leaves fell into his cup. Creating the first cup of tea. It is challenging to know whether or not the emperor was real or just a part

After generations, mooncakes came to hold a slightly different meaning to the Chinese in America, but nevertheless, the traditional pastries are valued as a piece of their Chinese culture as they continued to clash with those in America. Asian American have slowly lightened their adherence to the traditional versions as their choice of mooncakes and for many, having mooncakes just became a formality during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Even though mooncakes do not hold the same values as those in China

CANTONESE REGIONAL CUISINE (Chinese flag, 9 April 2015)

Marketing mix is the set of controllable tactical marketing tools–product, price, place, and promotion–that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market Company Background Found in 1938, Kee Wah Bakery has grown from a small grocery shop to a household name renowned for its bakery products in over half a century, with outlets and business filaments that stretch from Hong Kong to Mainland China, Taiwan, North America and Japan. The brand now has now become a household

Marketing mix is the set of controllable tactical marketing tools–product, price, place, and promotion–that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market Company Background Found in 1938, Kee Wah Bakery has grown from a small grocery shop to a household name renowned for its bakery products in over half a century, with outlets and business filaments that stretch from Hong Kong to Mainland China, Taiwan, North America and Japan. The brand now has now become a household name