Junior Amelie Maloveste picks up a ball of red bean paste, a traditional mooncake filling, during a mooncake-making session hosted by RM’s Chinese Culture Club on Oct. 1, 2024 in Room 161. Mooncakes are a type of Chinese dessert that are traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, an important celebration of harvest and reunion. The club provided students with different flavors of mooncake dough and a choice between a red bean or custard filling in order to allow them to make their own mooncakes. “It’s a sort of mochi mooncake, so it doesn’t require baking,” junior Jing Yi Yang, one of the club leaders, said. “We’re thinking of hosting more of these sessions, maybe with other Chinese foods,” Yang added.
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