Mid-autumn Festival
Every Chinese festival is accompanied by some kind of special food. During the recent mid-autumn festival moon cakes were given and eaten as a symbol of good relationships between friends and family.
These pastries are often round and contain many different fillings, inluding sesame paste, lotus seeds, preserved eggs and fruit.
Believe it or not, most Chinese people don't know how to make moon cakes, preferring to buy them at the local shop. But our intrepid carers in Changhsa looked up the recipe on the internet and made moon cakes with some of the young people in the Group Homes.
Apparently a great time was had by all as they mixed pastry and prepared their favourite fillings. The best bit was sharing moon cakes with friends and neighbours, and of course eating them. The worst bit was clearing up afterwards!
We might take the ability to bake a cake for granted, but these young people were thrilled to put their recently learned cooking skills to such good use. It is a blessing to see them grow and develop as they learn to live as part of their local community.
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