I wanted my kids to celebrate the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival just like how I did when I was young. My mom would prepare food like steamed baby yam (taro), water caltrope (Leng Kok, Scientific name, Trapa Bicornis) and sweet potatoes. There was once, I asked my mom, why people don’t pray to the full moon anymore. Without missing a beat, she told me that man already landed on the moon, now we are in the modern era, so we need to change how we think. How true, ha ha. Today, I prepared the same type of food so that my kids will have a feel of how the festival is actually celebrated. After a steamboat dinner, I let them play lantern outside the house with the neighbors kids.
Mooncakes, yam, water caltrope, pu err tea..........One cute little piggy mooncake. It is nice to slowly savour the taste of moon cakes and pu err tea at the same time. 
These are not monsters from outer space! These funny things resembling black buffalo horns are actually water caltrope, a type of water chestnut. I steamed them for half and hour. The picture on the right is how the flesh inside looks like. Taste a bit like coconut but the texture is soft and powdery.
Some of the lanterns at my house........................My wife made this one.
Mooncakes, yam, water caltrope, pu err tea..........One cute little piggy mooncake. It is nice to slowly savour the taste of moon cakes and pu err tea at the same time. 
These are not monsters from outer space! These funny things resembling black buffalo horns are actually water caltrope, a type of water chestnut. I steamed them for half and hour. The picture on the right is how the flesh inside looks like. Taste a bit like coconut but the texture is soft and powdery.
Some of the lanterns at my house........................My wife made this one.
