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Karissa Chen's avatar

When we were little, my mom would cut the mooncakes into eights and we would get to eat an eighth a day. Nowadays I know the "kind" of mooncakes I like and it's not those dense lotus seed paste shaped ones with egg yolk. My husband used to tell me how his mom would get the ice cream filled ones from Ganso to give away and he would always get excited, thinking it was for him. It was not. So this year I bought him a box of ice cream filled ones from Ganso and obviously, we loved those lol.

But also I hear people do a lot of regifting, like, you get a box of mooncakes and you're like OH WOW THANKS SO MUCH and then you turn around and give that box to someone else lol.

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Teresa Wu's avatar

I have zero idea how this holiday works either, haha. Had no idea that people bbq to celebrate! I do remember getting mooncakes dropped off to our house as a kid. They are soooo caloric though, and not tasty enough to be worth eating...

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