Mooncakes Baby

It's that time of year again. We have received our first gift of mooncakes.
Our favorite foreign affairs guy has retired and the first evidence of change has been the quality and quantity of mooncakes has decreased. Last year we got a beautiful elaborate box with about a dozen mooncake surprises. I like the box best, I'm not a big fan of mystery food, so the reduction was not heartbreaking, I'm just worried about where else this guy is going to try to cut corners. This year we got 6 mooncakes in a so-so box. Actually we get 2 boxes each year from foriegn affairs since we are two teachers. Sometimes students give us mooncakes too. They usually give one little mooncake and it comes in the cutest box.
Mid-Autumn Festival is falling on the same day as National Day so we only get one day off. The first year in Shenyang we were required to give a performance for the school's celebration. They wanted us to sing or dance and I'm not a sing and dance kind of gal. We gave a little speach with our fellow foreign teacher that included some very simple jokes. The brave Chris tried to sing with Princess the "milk song". It is a girl scout camp favorite and very cute. Princess was 3. Before going on stage the host took Princess (who was quite bored and being silly after being in the audience for 2 hours) aside and told her that if she sang onstage that afterwords she would get mooncakes. That triggered a nightmare, the night before Teenager came back from school and had told Princess that someone had bet her and her English teacher 100RMB to eat a mooncake. Apparently it was so distasteful that money loving teenager couldn't complete the task. She went on to tell gullible Princess just how horrible she thought mooncakes were. So Princess hearing that she will get mooncakes for going onstage begins to go into super naughty mode the second they hand her the microphone. She doesn't sing but loudly talks jibber-jabber and starts spinning and doing whatever else she felt like. Poor Chris tried to sing but it was a horribly embarrassing scene witnessed by 4000 of our students.
But since we have adopted Little Guy we don't want to diminish his culture. So we graciously accepted the mooncakes and with full fanfare opened up the boxes. Little Guy was pretty excited. He is the worlds pickiest eater and if he liked mooncakes I was going to rush out to the market and by a years supply.

Not loving the mooncake

Well, lets just say he is one of the family and there was no need to go shopping.

Harbin, China