Nearly 50,000 citizens in east China's Suzhou City chowed down on a
5,400-kilogram moon cake on October 1, the National Day and the day
of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Among those tasting the five-ton, five-meter wide pastry were
soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, builders of the
Suzhou-Jiaxing-Hangzhou expressway, residents of a Suzhou senior
citizenshome, and farmers from five towns near the Suzhou
Industrial Park.
The moon cake was made Monday night by chefs from the Chinese
mainland and Taiwan. It is five meters in diameter and 20
centimeters in height.
Organizers of the activity named the moon cake the "China Reunion
Moon" in honor of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on Monday
this year, a festival marked by Chinese around the world as a day
of family reunion.
It
took the organizers nearly seven hours from 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to 3
p.m. to slice the cake into bite-sized pieces and put them into 350
boxes for distribution, each weighing 15 kilograms.
(eastday.com
10/04/2001)