JieMu's Kitchen

MOONCAKE

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September 23rd 2012
The image of the kites must have left an impression. Today was a mooncake-making workshop ahead of the mid-autumn festival. Actually not so much making of mooncakes, rather a few steps in the assembly process. The full process goes something like this. Step 1: prepare your sugar syrup. Step 2: wait for 6 months for it to mature. Step 3: make your pastry. Step 4 wait 3 days for it to harden, or was ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more