WATERFRONT Insular Hotel Davao celebrates the Mid-Autumn traditions by featuring Asian cuisine and mooncake selections at Café Uno.
The 15th day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar marks the second most important festival for the Chinese after the Chinese New Year.
Traditionally, a time to give thanks for a bountiful autumn harvest, the Mid-autumn Festival is commonly observed through mooncake giving where families share this delicacy as a gesture of love and well wishes.
Sharing the same gesture to their hotel guests and industry partners, Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao offers a one-time, mid-autumn thanksgiving treat.
Since the event is widely celebrated not only in China but also in places with strong Chinese influence like Vietnam and some parts of the Philippines, Executive Chef Victor Barangan prepares a spread of Asian themed buffet at Café Uno to highlight the occasion.
A station of mooncakes with flavors such as Ube Rum, Puto Cheese, and Coconut Dry Mango are also featured in the luncheon. These mooncakes were specially made by Chef Benoit laboureux, Group Pastry Chef for Waterfront Hotels and Casinos.
There’s an old Chinese saying that goes “food is the first necessity of people.” Food has always played a part in the Chinese culture and Chinese people have always had a natural creativity when it came to cooking.
Over the years, various flavors of mooncakes have been made and remade.
Whether it’s the traditional lotus seed pastries or some newly crafted ones, the making and sharing of mooncakes are undeniably hallmark activities of the festival. (PR)