Sweet Bean Paste Mooncake recipe will allow you to make delicious mooncake to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of the Chinese calendar which is on the 3rd October this year. Sweet red bean paste mooncake is a traditional festival mooncake food compared to the other types of exotic mooncake flavors such as the pandan lotus paste mooncake, snow skin mango paste mooncake, assorted nut Ng Yan mooncake and the durian lotus paste mooncake. The Vietnamese call the Chinese mooncake festival Tet Trung Thu while the Japanese and Koreans call the mooncake festival Tsukimi and Chuseok respectively. Eating authentic mooncakes and pomelos and drinking Chinese tea under the light of the full Moon is the best way to celebrate the Mooncake Festival.

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