Honestly speaking, I thought I won’t write anything while in Hong Kong, but I just have to share this experience with you!
I never had a chance to have a real ‘Mid-Autumn Festival’ – when we lived in America, we just got a moon cake from the company, but there was no lantern show, Sing was doing OT so we had no time for a real family dinner. This year I was lucky enough to make it right on time.
[EDIT 7/10/2015 – Added a video]
Dead tired, we went to Victoria Park to see its famous Lantern Show. It was so amazing, even thought the place was incredibly crowded I enjoyed every moment of it.
I wish Momzilla and the rest of the family could be with us, but I can’t complain – one day we will come back with our baby holding a tiny lantern shaped as some cute cartoon creature.
As for now – I just want to wish you all Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Have you ever seen a lantern festival? Would you like to show your photos or talk about your experience? I would be happy to read it!
Yes, I had been to the same one as you have been. Enjoyed ourselves eating and drinking in the park at night and have a wonderful time. Hope yours as good as mine.
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I think they even hold some Guinness Record there, but I’m not sure! It was wonderful 🙂
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Fabulous photos! Were those giant char siu bao in that one photo? And the tribute to HK neon–fabulous! I’ve been to the Tai Hang fire dragon parade–I think–way back during my first Mid-Autumn Fest ever. I just blogged about that. I’ve also been to a lantern exhibit in Montreal around this time of year, but several years back. I hope to take my kids to HK someday, too, and show them how the Mid-Autumn Fest is properly celebrated!
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BBQ buns, pineapple bun, wonton noodle soup – I don’t know why those photos weren’t on my camera anymore 😦
Cannot wait to find a moment, sit down and read your new blog post 🙂
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Did you lose photos? I hope not! I’m so worried my phone will run out of space when I’m there next month. I won’t have my photographer with me and will have to rely on my iPhone 5! No rush in reading my blog post. You’re in Hong Kong and need to savor every second there!
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Sing got so into helping me with photography and making videos that we are actually looking to get a second camera haha 🙂
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That’s great! You can’t take too many photos, especially in Hong Kong!
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It looks amazing there!
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couldn’t believe I’m there!
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Lucky you that you made it in time! I was only once during mid autumn festival in China back in 2012 and it was lovely. THis time we had to leave a week early 😦
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but look at it this way – one week less with MIL 😀
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But also one week already without all the great food and back to “normal” life 😦
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I understand you, I often think I could sacrifice myself and live with Momzilla just because I love my life in HK so much haha
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Yeah, I also could deal perhaps with MIL just to be able to enjoy China more than just a few weeks a year…
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Why the heck would you wish Momzilla to be with you to watch the lantern shows?? It is supposed to be the perfect time to be romantic! She’ll ruin it!
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I guess that’s the hot weather working bad for me 😀
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Beautiful and magical. Thanks for the pics.
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Thank you for spending your time on this post 🙂
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nice pictures! I was there! I only just saw the lights turn on though, and didn’t stay until it got completely dark because I have a cold. Thanks for sharing them, I can feel like I didn’t miss out so much!
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I regret not seeing the fire dragon dance 😦
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Nice! I saw similar lanterns in HK but for Chinese New Year.
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I hope they don’t just re-use them haha 🙂
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It looks so beautiful! We definitely need to go to Hong Kong for Mid-Autumn Festival once. Thanks for sharing all the beautiful pictures!
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worth going! I was dead tired but I wouldn’t forgive myself if we didn’t go
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You are only there for a short time, you can sleep when you come home! For the time being, go see as much as you can!
I was in Japan for the last three weeks and only slept 5 hours maximum most of the nights. I only took 2 days “off” where I slept longer to regenerate haha 😀
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Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. Also, lots of baby hints on your blog recently. Is there some news you want to share?!
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I wish haha I guess in HK I’m happier so I talk more about making our family bigger haha 😀 Momzilla would be happy 😀
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Oh, no! The brainwashing is taking effect already! 😉
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When I read your comment, I was like “Ha??? Am I the only one who didn’t get it???” and reread all her last few posts, but still didn’t get it. 😀
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It might go back further than a few posts, but at first there was talk of “if a baby,” and now I think it’s “When the baby…”
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I hope you can’t read anything alike in my posts 😀
When I am tired I always translate German to English one on one which is sooo wrong sometimes and people might get wrong ideas… Like I make myself pregnant by accident… Although I sometimes do look like it when I ate to much broccoli. Then not even my well trained abdominals prevent me from looking at least 4th month D:
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I see the conspiracy theories haha 😀 don’t worry – if I get pregnant probably everyone will know before Sing 😄 as much as I want a child, I wish to go through pregnancy in HK so later on we don’t need to move with a baby etc. etc. therefore my baby plans are delayed again haha 😀
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Thank you very much for sharing.
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glad you like it!
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Ah, I miss Hong Kong!
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it’s really lovely, especially during this time of the year 🙂
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Vancouver British Columbia has a good lantern festival….since there a lot of locals of Asian descent and against the mountains, ocean it’s beautiful…
But I haven’t gone yet….
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I think I wouldn’t be able to resist!
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I missed the Mid-Autumn festival this year, so it was great to read and see the sights via your post. Wonderful ~
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I added a video, it might make you feel better (hopefully!)
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Happy Mid Autumn Festival to you, Lina and Sing! I baked glutenfree mooncakes this year, but I have no idea what the ‘normal’ ones taste like! hahaa! I’m sure that mine were not as good though – anyway, I enjoyed them 🙂
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I, on the other hand, never had gluten free ones 😀
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Wonderful, love your photos of the Lantern festival. 🙂
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thank you!
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See now THAT’S a lantern festival! I feel like the one I just went to in Montreal wasn’t as spectacular as the one you saw in Victoria park.
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I heard they hold some kind of record – in San Francisco, one of the biggest Chinatowns, they haven’t done anything like that 😦 at least not when we were living there
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so festive. so colorful. too bad the country i live in is not a chinese country. we are missing many festive celebrations the way HK and Taiwan get to have.
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in SF CHinese community is big but they never celebrate it on the right day but month later or something (I mean parades etc. :(), in Ireland they celebrate nothing that’s not Christian or Halloween so…. 😦 I know this feeling!
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Oh Gosh! I love your photos, they are absolutely stunning. The lantern festival really seem to be fun. It really makes me realize how much I actually miss Hong Kong. 😀
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Thank you so much! I try my best!
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You are doing absolutely great! ❤
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