中秋月餅
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with this Chinese treat
by Lisa Holl Chang
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival – and the best way to celebrate is by eating a moon cake! Packed with meaning, round moon cakes suggest the moon, which is full tonight. Moon cakes also represent family gatherings. The word for family gatherings, tuan yuan (團圓) includes the character for round.
Traditional moon cakes have paste fillings covered with pastry. Flavors vary by location, with Cantonese-style cakes being the most popular. But bakeries and hotels now offer unique – and nontraditional – flavors like green tea, chocolate and even durian! The trend started 29 years ago in Hong Kong with “snow-skin” moon cakes. The outer layer is made of rice cake. Snow-skin moon cakes come in colors like pink, purple and yellow and in a variety of flavors. Ice-cream moon cakes are selling like hot cakes. A few years ago, some stores began offering ice-cream moon cakes coated with chocolate. In some locations, these cakes sell so quickly that people need to order them in advance! Moon cakes with their tasty flavors and happy meanings bring out the joy of the holiday.
Grammar
In some locations, these cakes sell so quickly that people need to order them in advance!
" in advance" is a fancy way to say "early".
You need to prepare your ingredients in advance.
Get your concert tickets in advance.
Vocabulary
represent (v)-表示,象征（自由），symbolize something.代表某个对象。
Lisa's wedding ring represents her husband's love and commitment to her.
*Owning a car represents freedom.
*In this painting, the rainbow represents hope.
*Josh represented his company at the regional meeting.
filling (n)-食物馅料，内容，填充物This chocolate cake has a cream filling inside it. fill-充满
*The cream filling inside the puffs is made of non-fat milk. 麭肤
*The filling of these pillows is 100% goose down.
trends-trend of foot or fashion
Valerie loves following fashion trends. She's always buying different clothes!
sell like the hot cakes (idiom)-very popular and quick sale.大卖，十分畅销，很抢手，被抢购。need order in advance-早先预定 hot cakes- pan cake薄的煎饼- made by flour, milk, egg and water
These colorful MP3 players are selling like hot cakes. You'd better buy one soon!
*The little girl's first album is selling like hot cakes in England.
*Batteries sell like hot cakes before typhoons hit.
packed with meaning-contain with, full of.
equinox-depending on the time of the year occurs.
Chat Room
the autumnal equinox-秋分，中秋看见的月亮是满月，最靠近秋分，秋分前后出现的月亮是满月。
the Harvest Moon-full moon
blue moon-同一个月出现两次满月，第二个满月叫"blue moon" 非常难得，很不寻常。
I haven't seen her in a blue moon.-I haven't seen her in a long time.
gibbous moon-gibbous：凸月，between full moon and half moon.是半月到满月
half moon=quarter moon-半月,half circle, or 人们看到的半月其实是满月的1/4。
crescent moon-crescent牛角形状，弯弯的，a quarter of moon, new moon。moon like a crescent roll.
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