This is a long weekend here: Valentine’s Day, Family Day (so Monday is a holiday).

So this blog post is dedicated to my Asian friends, and it pains my heart to be separated from you, though I am so bad at keeping in touch. Work is too hard! Thank goodness for communications like telephone, email, FaceBook…

When first tried a mooncake, I thought: Wow! Like fudgey, peanut-flavoured, smooth and yummy…with a surprise salty, grainy egg yolk in the middle all cutely done in a pretty stamped pastry…very rich and sweet ~

But, so many are passed back and forth between friends and family–people get sick of them by the time they are teens. Lots of beautiful tins and special gift bags exchanged.

And here is a so-sweet note sent in a mailer from Hong Kong with some anime-type figurines we bought on eBay (which came quickly on the 31st of December, and we had only ordered just a short time before). Came with magnet gift, seller name gorgor16.