All About Your Child

Mid Autumn Festival 2010 is especially special for my boys, especially Binbin. I would rather put it this way, Mid Autumn Festival is for kids in my family and my in-law’s too. The kids will receive a Hong Bao (red packet) from their grandmother as a form of Mid Autumn Festival greeting every year.

This Mid Autumn Festival tradition was passed down by her parents or grandparents. The money in the Hong Bao is given to the kids to buy lanterns. But my boys are very lucky to be born into this family because they still get the Hong Bao even though they have already received free lanterns from the old folk in the family. *smile*

Of course, the Mid Autumn Festival Origin is so much more famous than this little Hong Bao giving, which my in-law practices. I heard that Mid Autumn Festival in Hong Kong has this practice too. Do the old folks in your house do that too?

Mid Autumn Festival 2010 happens to fall on a Wednesday, so the kids had their lantern-parade on Sunday. It was a pity that my eldest niece could not join in the fun, my 2nd BIL had a wedding dinner to attend to that night.

This year, Binbin fell in love with a special type of mooncakes from Bakerzin. Yup. Bakerzin! This little boy definitely has an expensive ‘tongue’! Its called “The Black Sesame Truffle mini snow skin Mooncakes”. He does not like the Da Tong Mooncake which we bought.

Bakerzin was having a Mid Autumn Festival bazaar at IMM. We were going around tasting all the samples last week, so much so that our taste buds no longer can tell which is nice and which is not. *eyes rolled*

So we arrowed Binbin to take over the tasting of the Bakerzin mooncakes. He pointed at the black sesame mooncakes the moment he saw it, thinking that it was Chocolate Mooncakes!!! *laugh*

Surprisingly, he loved it so much! I asked for the price of one box, Ooooohhhh… it was pricey. So in the end I bought only a single piece, which cost $7.00+, for him.

Today he is in luck, ‘cos my sister’s boyfriend bought a whole box of Bakerzin mini mooncakes for us. Though it is a mixture of different sorts of flavours, but there are 2 pieces of black sesame mooncakes, enough to satisfy the cravings of Binbin. *giggle*

So here’s wishing everyone a wonderful Mid Autumn Festival 2010!