What do Asian countries eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Talking about food during the Mid-Autumn Festival, not to mention the moon cake. Let's go around Asia to see which countries have interesting mooncakes.

Vietnamese moon cakes have 2 types: baked cakes and flexible cakes.White flexible crust, made of glutinous flour mixed with sweet sugar, baked crust is yeast flour mixed with chicken eggs and wine, then baked in golden nursery.(Photo: Tuisme.blogspot).

Vietnamese traditional mooncakes are delicious and attractive with mixed ingredients, including lotus seeds, fatty meat, sesame, ribs, green beans, lemon leaves intertwined, creating a sweet and aromatic flavor.Mooncakes are usually round, symbolizing the full moon day of the full moon, the unionists, the desire for happiness.(Photo: Tuisme.blogspot).

Songpyeon is the name of moon cake in Korea, meaning semi-circular rice cake.Songpyeon cake is made by mixing rice flour with hot water.Then, stuff the dough and cake with green bean paste, black sesame, chestnut or other kernels, then steam.(Photo: Koreanbapsang).

Ripe Songpyeon cake will be placed on fresh pine leaves to keep the shape of cake, and create strange taste.In addition to the traditional white color, the cake is also transformed with beautiful colors: pink from strawberry, dark green from mugwort, yellow from pumpkin . The finished bread is flexible, tough, sweet, gentle and Bring the taste of fresh pine leaves.(Photo: Twinrabbit).

It can be said that durian rice cakes are typical moon cakes of Singapore.Most people here like durian taste of this kind of cake.(Photo: Wanderluxe).

Durian rice cakes as well as other moon cakes in Singapore are made from Chinese "snow skin" cakes.Not only white, but moon cakes in Singapore are rich in colors.Usually the shell is colored like human color: yellow durian, taro pink color, green color green tea . (Photo: Danielfooddiary).

Mooncake in Japan is Tsukimi Dango (commonly known as Dango) - a type of rice flour cake, quite like mochi rice cake, has many different shapes, but the most popular is round shape.(Photo: Tokyopic).

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tsukimi Dango cake is stacked like a tower on a wooden shelf.Each "cake tower" has about 15 units.Beside the "cake tower" is susuki grass and can also display some other fruits.(Photo: Tokyopic).

Hopia is the name of the Filipino moon cakes.These are simple baked cakes, not colorful or sophisticated patterns but also extremely attractive because of the varied and delicious cakes.(Photo: Hopialikeit).

There are many versions of hopia cake: hopiang mungo (selling baked green beans), hopiang baboy (pork scones), hopiang hapon (Japanese scones), hopiang ube (purple sweet potato scones) . (Photos: Picssr).

Chinese mooncakes are usually round, symbolizing "members", that meaning originates from the Ming Dynasty.At present, moon cakes have more shapes, including squares, shapes of breeds and are made of more attractive new materials.(Photo: Thinglink).

Mooncakes in China only have scones, no flexible cakes like in Vietnam.(Photo: Visitbeijing).

The moon festival in Cambodia takes place much later, usually on the lunar calendar in October, not on August 15 like other countries.This festival is called Ok Om Pok festival, held at night with a famous festival of flat rice cake.(Photo: Dulich9).