Going to the Lantern Festival

[Joseph Hewitt]

I'm leaving today on a short trip to the paper lantern festival in... I don't know where. Can't remember. It's not a big town... er, someplace. Anyhow I'll be back on Wednesday evening.

[macksting]

Enjoy! Bring back pictures?

[Joseph Hewitt]

Unfortunately, once we got there we found out that one of our cameras was broken, and the other one was out of power. We'll get some pictures from the other people we went with and I'll post a link here then.

The festival was interesting. They made giant floating lanterns in the shape of people, things, mythological creatures, and cartoon characters which were then set floating in the Nam river.

[macksting]

Shweet.

[Joseph Hewitt]

I found the website of the festival, so you can just pretend that I took all those pictures. ^^;

http://www.lanternfestival.org/

[dPB]

Just OOC does the Lantern Festival have any food for the festival whereever you were like in China where they eat moon cake? (Or like here in Australia if you have chinese parents...damn i love mooncake)

[Joseph Hewitt]

Sorry, but I have no idea what moon cake is. I gave a shout around the office and Anna (one of our Korean teachers, that is her real name) thought it might be something like Korean son-pyon. I asked Thu (the other foreign teacher, a Vietnamese-American from California) and she said that there were two kinds of moon cake that she knew of, one that might have been something like son-pyon and another type that had an egg in it.

Son-pyon is a traditional food to eat around this time of year. Last chusok my wife's family and I made some ourselves- this year we went straight for the store-bought. It's sticky rice cake with something sweet inside it folded into the shape of a crescent moon. Does it sound anything like that?

[draconuszero]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

hope this helps

[Joseph Hewitt]

I just checked the page on moon cake, and that looks nothing like what we have over here. Looks quite good, though.