Two weeks ago, Vietnam celebrated the Moon Festival. Businesses set up stands to sell moon cakes the month before the holiday. Moon cakes are a mysterious confection of baked dough--some are filled with, to my mind, horrible things like black eggs, while others have meat and dried fruit, reminiscent of Christmas fruitcake mied with mincemeat pie. Vietnamese people in Can Tho like to exchange moon cakes obtained from far away provinces.
And then for three nights, children went up and down my street carrying lit lanterns and getting cakes, a bit like an early Halloween. Some people even floated small floats decorated with candles and flowers on the river, akin to the Harvest Fesival in Thailand that takes place on the full moon during November.
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