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To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, Marco Polo Ortigas Manila offers two flavors of traditional handcrafted mooncakes.

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Mooncakes — the hockey-puck-sized pastries Chinese give each other every year for the mid-autumn festival — were always more about tradition than delicacy: Some people don't even like them.

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Just one bite into the velvety, chewy, dewy-fresh fillings and I was over the moon.

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Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino exalts this year's most opulent tradition with specially shaped homemade sweet mooncakes.

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With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, Sept. 12 to be exact, I’d like to share some of the origins of the mooncake. There are many stories about its origins but no one can really pinpoint which is the real one.

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Once a year I look forward to receiving mooncakes in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. For the last 10 years or so, my friend Vicky Choi never fails to send six boxes to make sure each one of my siblings have their own and the sixth box was exclusively for my dad.

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Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino’s Tin Gow, Cebu’s premier Chinese restaurant, cooks up a sumptuous Mooncake Festival, culminating on the 22nd of September, the date of the actual festival.

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Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino’s Tin Gow, Cebu’s premier Chinese restaurant, cooks up a sumptuous Mooncake Festival, culminating on the 3rd of October, the date of the actual festival.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 134832 [Title] => Everything you wanted to know about mooncakes [Summary] => What fruitcakes are to Christ-mas, mooncakes are to the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditionally, these seasonal round-shaped cakes have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon.

And the moon is what this celebration is all about. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month. It is the time of the year when the moon is said to be at its brightest and fullest. This year, the festival falls on Oct. 1.
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To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, Marco Polo Ortigas Manila offers two flavors of traditional handcrafted mooncakes.

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Mooncakes — the hockey-puck-sized pastries Chinese give each other every year for the mid-autumn festival — were always more about tradition than delicacy: Some people don't even like them.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-14 01:22:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440261 [AuthorName] => Kelvin Chan [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7640/5i8h.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1116321 [Title] => Over the moon with Mandarin Oriental mooncakes [Summary] =>

Just one bite into the velvety, chewy, dewy-fresh fillings and I was over the moon.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1111901 [Title] => Mid-Autumn Festival at the Waterfront [Summary] =>

Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino exalts this year's most opulent tradition with specially shaped homemade sweet mooncakes.

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With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, Sept. 12 to be exact, I’d like to share some of the origins of the mooncake. There are many stories about its origins but no one can really pinpoint which is the real one.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1633058 [AuthorName] => Nuffnang blogger Talesfromthetummy [SectionName] => Unblogged [SectionUrl] => unblogged [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 722083 [Title] => Mooncake madness [Summary] =>

Once a year I look forward to receiving mooncakes in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. For the last 10 years or so, my friend Vicky Choi never fails to send six boxes to make sure each one of my siblings have their own and the sixth box was exclusively for my dad.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134170 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805395 [AuthorName] => Millie and Karla Reyes [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6478/lif1thumbu.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 613320 [Title] => Mooncakes at the Waterfront [Summary] =>

Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino’s Tin Gow, Cebu’s premier Chinese restaurant, cooks up a sumptuous Mooncake Festival, culminating on the 22nd of September, the date of the actual festival.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 502174 [Title] => Mooncakes at the Waterfront [Summary] =>

Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino’s Tin Gow, Cebu’s premier Chinese restaurant, cooks up a sumptuous Mooncake Festival, culminating on the 3rd of October, the date of the actual festival.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 134832 [Title] => Everything you wanted to know about mooncakes [Summary] => What fruitcakes are to Christ-mas, mooncakes are to the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditionally, these seasonal round-shaped cakes have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon.

And the moon is what this celebration is all about. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month. It is the time of the year when the moon is said to be at its brightest and fullest. This year, the festival falls on Oct. 1.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1128760 [AuthorName] => Anson Yu [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) ) )
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