The
Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節, zhōng qiū jié), also known as the
Moon Festival, is a popular
East Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to
China's
Zhou Dynasty. In
Malaysia and
Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the
Lantern Festival or
Mooncake Festival. The Chinese Lantern Festival is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
(from wikipedia)
Since Mooncake Festival is just around the corner, my boss has decided to have a mooncake sampling session in our office, sort of some mini celebration for this festival.
Hey without staring at the bright moon and having ninja turtles lantern to play with, we still can have fun in office!
Then again, who to organise it? Yup, me.....
Posted the message to everyone about it, the guys are all quite excited about it. Since this month is also the fasting month, the boys been having good feast every lunch LOL
Right after work today, I went off to buy some mooncakes for the sampling session. I could go tomorrow, but I expect lots of work tomorrow, so I do not want to have last minute running around searching for mooncakes. I was right. I went today and most of my selection of mooncakes are already sold out!!! no more chocolate mooncake for me.. Do love to take some of those Haagen Daze Ice Cream Mooncakes but then it was too pricy for my budget :P hahahaha
You will be suprise with the range of mooncakes that are out these days. Other than the traditional Red Bean & Lotus mooncakes, there are now chocolate mooncakes, greentea mooncakes, dragon fruit mooncakes, passion fruit mooncakes, mix berry & nuts mooncakes and the list goes on.. I bought some funny weird mooncakes: Durian Paste with Yolk (yuk! I am not going to eat this), Cheery Blossom (supposed to be lotus but taste like Rose), Noble Delight (Dragon Fruit), Nyonya Curry (Hm.. surprisingly as weird it may sound like but its kinna tasty if you like spicy food), the two that I would love to try is YinYang (as in the drink coffee & milk tea) mooncake and Creamy Milk Tea Mooncake (hm... sounds yummy) and many more..All from varies companies. How they taste like? I guess have to wait till Friday when I prepare them for tasting then I will let you know :D
After the heavy shopping, (geez.. yes.. HEAVY.. I didnt know 16 mooncakes would be so heavy to carry around!) I got tired and hungry, so I hopped by to the supermarket Jusco to get some drinks and food. As I was about pay at the counter, a guy with a trolly full of things came in front of me lining up. I was looking at him with that one kind of look, obviously I wasn't happy about him, but he just ignored me (or he is just plain stupid). We were at the Express Line which is meant for 8 items and below for cash out. Clearly stated that this guy is so so obvious wanting to cut the long que at the other counters and be at the express line (or again he might be just plain stupid). I looked into his trolly, thinking it would be wrong to judge someone just by the looks, perhaps he does have only 8 items and the rest are already paid for. Again, no.... He had 3 cartons of eggs (geez.. making his own mooncakes???), Tons of food (packed from the Jusco counter), Packs of Sushi, and many many more FOOD! (is he scare of dying of hunger??).
I wasnt happy about the fact he is trying to take advance of the express lane, despite I was holding alot of heavy mooncakes on one hand and the other carrying my bag, food and money to pay. I really wanted to get out as fast as I could, behind me was three other people lining up as well, and we were all less than 5 items. Just before his turn, I wanted to tell the young guy that he is on the wrong lane, before I could say it, he proceed forward to the counter. The cashier was looking at his trolly and said to the young fellar that he is not suppose to use this lane as this is meant of less than 8 items. The young fellar seems to ignore him (or he could be deaf). Despite 3 times the cashier told him, he was still wanting to take out grocery from his trolly to the counter. The cashier didn't punch anything and told once again politely to move to the other counters which is not the express lanes. All of us were just looking at him unhappily. Finally, he put the stuff back to the trolly and moved. Yay! Finally my turn, as I place my stuff on the counter, the cashier was like complaining to me LOL Way to go to him! Thumbs Up to the Jusco Cashier!!!! He indeed done a good thing, which he suppose to as in line to his duty. Previously I have similiar cases that the cashier didnt bother and just let people cut que and still let them through, which make me very furious about it, especially after I have been lining up for more than 30minutes. Right after you paid, you will found out that the cashier had punch the same item 3times and you had to go back to the counter to ask for refund (and wait for another 30minutes before she would talk to u while clearing her lane).
Well during the weekend I will post up some pictures from the mooncake sampling session so stay tune!
