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Chinese Mooncakes: Cantonese Style (Lake Harriet Upper)


Adult Enrichment / Cooking -
Adult Enrichment Fall 2024

Mooncake is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is primarily about the harvest while a legend connects it to moon-watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy.

The festival falls on September 17 this year. There is a variety of mooncakes. The Cantonese mooncake is the most famous. A traditional Cantonese mooncake is a round pastry with a rich thick filling usually made from lotus seed paste, red bean paste or mixed nuts surrounded by a thin crust.

At this workshop, you are going to learn how to make your own crusts to make the mooncakes and bake them. You will be able to taste your own homemade mooncakes. Price includes a supply kit of ingredients purchased and provided by the instructor. 

Sign up by yourself or as a group! Price is per person.

Xiaohong Chen

Ada was born in Wuhan, Southern China. Her mom was an excellent cook and Ada spent a lot of time helping her in the kitchen. She left Wuhan for Beijing, where she would spend a decade. In Beijing she started cooking for herself. Cooking became a passion for her and she also found it was a great stress reliever. On the weekends you could often find Ada’s friends at her home, talking, drinking, laughing, eating at the dinner table. In 2009 she started a box lunch service called “Ada’s Home Cooking” - she would prepare 30-40 lunches a day by herself! Today as a housewife with 2 children she enjoys cooking for her family and dreams of having a stand at a local farmer’s market.

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  Xiaohong Chen


Lake Harriet Upper Elementary School : Dragon's Den
Monday, Oct 7
6:00 - 8:30 PM

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Min Age   16 yr.

Full - waiting list


$ 44.00
$29 + $15 material fee