Giant Mooncake at SM City North EDSA

SM City North EDSA celebrates Mooncake festival with a giant mooncake display and free tasting for its shoppers.

The Mid-Autumn festival, popularly known as the Mooncake festival, is usually celebrated by Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Vietanamese ancestry. The day of the festival occurs on the 15^th day of the 8^th Lunar month, sometime between the second week of September and the second week of October to celebrate the Mid-Autumn harvest moon.

Traditionally, during the Mooncake Festival people hold ceremonies and worship the moon. They send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes. During the night, everyone looks up at the full silver moon and go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival.

Many Asian countries celebrate the festival as a day of family reunions like the western Thanksgiving celebration. Children stay up to past midnight parading multi-colored lanterns on the streets while they moon-gaze to the brightest moon of the year. Traditional red foods like lobster, salmon, apple, pomegranates, roasted peanuts, pomelo, chestnuts, and moon cakes were being served for good luck.

In our country, the biggest mall in the Philippines, SM City North EDSA, celebrates the festival through a giant Moon Cake. Headed by its Mall Manager Ms. Hershe Angeles and Regional Operations Manager Ms. Renne Bacani, SM City North EDsA unveiled a giant mooncake on September 30, the day of this years’ Mooncake festival.

Shoppers were also a given a special treat of tasting the mooncake for free. The giant mooncake prepared by SM City North Edsa were made of egg yolks representing the moon, filled with dates, nuts, fruits, sweet bean and lotus seed paste. It was composed of 40 pcs. of individually baked mooncake to form its giant version that can feed up to 1000 people.

Special mooncakes from Bread Talk, Hap chan, President Tea House, Salazar Bakery, Polland and Northbound were also sold during the festival.

 

The mooncake festival is one of the many exciting celebrations at SM City North EDSA.