This weekend is the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival here in HK. One major tradition for this holiday is lighting lots of paper lanterns, originally with candles but now often battery-operated bulbs. Last night we went all over Kowloon with our friends Erika and Geoff in search of two particular lantern displays. There were families everywhere carrying around their own lanterns or having picnics and burning candles. Check out the photos below.
Another tradition is eating mooncakes. The mooncakes we tried are made of lotus seed paste and have a whole egg yolk inside. They sound gross, but they're not really that bad. This is a photo of a mooncake I found on the internet (b/c I was too lazy to photograph ours and download it.
