Rica's Diary: Mooncake Celebration ♡

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Mooncake Celebration ♡

Happy Mid-Autumn/Mooncake Festival!（‐＾▽＾‐）

So yesterday, in celebration of Chinese Mooncake festival, my AXA Team Go & I had a sumptous dinner & a very fun dice game at our office in Binondo (If in case you didnt know, I also work as part-time Financial Advisor in Axa Philippines) and I think 3/4 of my team are either true blooded Chinese (Philippine-born or already a citizen here) or has a chinese descent that is why we do celebrate Chinese traditions like Chinese New Year, Mooncake festival and etc in the office. And in fact, it was actually my first time to experience such event and its really a great feeling learning other's tradition. (^_^)

And for the benefit of some of my dear readers (if there's any) who are not familiar with this yet.. here is the brief definition of Mooncake Festival that I got from google. **laughs**

Mooncake or Moon Festival is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by the Chinese & other Asian communities all over the world. It falls on the 15th of the 8th month of the lunar calendar and it is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese and even Vietnamese, just like Christmas and Thanksgiving for Westerners. In Korea, it is called Hangawi or Chuseok; in Vietnam Trung Thursday ; in Hong Kong Chung Ch'iu ; and in Taiwan Tiong-chhiu Choeh .

Adee's first throw. Bingo!

The Mooncake dice game consists of 6 dice, a big ceramic bowl, lots of prizes & a lucky hand. Each players are given a chance to throw the dice, carefully not to be disqualified by getting the dice out of the bowl. The objective is to at-least get a red 4 dots to win a prize. The prize gets better the more 4's you get. You can also win by having 1-2-3-4-5-6 pattern, or getting 5 of the number, or by having two sets of three same number. You're a candidate for the grand prize if you get four 4's, or having all the dice as the same number. As simple as that. ;)

The Prizes.. To bad I only got 4 items!

With Welj and Fam! ;)

For the yummy part, we had a Yangchao Rice, Signature Noodle, Kopi Spareribs, Pastel Chicken, Sotanghon & Cassava Cake and home-made Orange Leche Flan for dessert by the birthday boy, Kuya Dennis!