Mid-autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival) 2022 In Singapore

Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is also known as the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival. It was traditionally a Chinese end-of-harvest celebration. It is additionally celebrated by numerous other Asian nations, also Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Baked mooncakes, crafted to represent the lunar body, they imply, were enjoyed by families as a symbol of togetherness and unity. Tea was the most common accompaniment to assist with washing down the sweetness. During the 1960s, Hong Kong presented the snow-skin version of these mooncakes, encasing fillings that ordered them more as desserts.

With the mid-term of autumn falling on 10 September this year, The Great Ballroom is planning luxuriously for perhaps the most cherished Chinese festival in the lunar calendar. Every year, the chefs get increasingly more innovative with their mooncake collections— some sticking to tradition, while others pushing their creative prowess into coming up with imaginative concoctions and blends that fulfill the eye as well as the plate. Here are the mooncake creations being served up this year by The Great Ballroom.

When Is Mooncake Festival Celebrated

The 2022 Mooncake Festival is on 10 of September. It generally falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Lunar calendar, which is between September and early October. It denotes the end of the Autumn Harvest and the Hungry Ghost Festival.

How Do People Celebrate Mooncake Festival In Singapore

Giving And Eating Mooncakes

While mooncakes were utilized to worship the moon and celebrate family get-togethers, they have evolved to represent relationships between friends and family, partners and business partners.

Some even start their mooncake shopping 3 months before the celebration, to reserve their favourite flavours and boxes as the famous ones can sell out quickly.

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