We had a nice little Moon Festival dinner last night. We're getting better at making a couple traditional Chinese dishes, but are still a bit overwhelmed when it comes to putting a whole meal together. There is a lot more prep work than we're used to as neither Tina or I are big into cooking, quick and easy is our regular style. The other problem for us is the quantities we end up with if we prepare a lot of different dishes. So last night we settled on rice, egg flower soup (of course), asian style fresh green beans, and dumplings (pot stickers). We used frozen store-bought pot stickers too, we just didn't have a whole day to prepare these. But Tina has mastered cooking these now, so we're thinking that we are going to try setting a day aside to make up a ton of them ourselves then freezing them for future use.
For desert we had a few little mooncakes that we shared with hot tea. I was a bit surprised that Kai didn't really like them this year, last year he couldn't get enough. I have come to really enjoy them though and look forward to eating them on Moon Festival. I think it's probably a good thing for me that they are so expensive, as they are very, very rich!
I really love the way they look too, so I took a few minutes to get the picture above. The plate they are on came with a box of mooncakes we bought at a little grocery store in Beijing four years ago on the day we met Kai. I wanted a nice background for them so I used a shirt I got in Xi'an when we adopted Shen.
It was a beautiful clear evening so after dinner we went outside and got to enjoy looking at the big full moon! This evening we'll be celebrating with the Mei Hua Chinese School at the Village Green in Fairhaven, the boys are very excited about getting to dress up in their "China Clothes". Hopefully I'll get some good pictures of them.
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