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        "id": 1458171,
        "msgid": "mooncake-festival-given-indonesian-flavor-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-09-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "Mooncake festival given Indonesian flavor",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Mooncake festival given Indonesian flavor A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Chinese all around the world, including here, are currently celebrating the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, known as the Mooncake festival. Chinese usually give mooncakes to their relatives as gifts during the mid-autumn celebration, which falls on the 15th day every eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar (Peh Gwee Cap Go). This year, it falls on Sept. 28.",
        "content": "<p>Mooncake festival given Indonesian flavor<\/p>\n<p>A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Chinese all around the world, including here, are currently<br>\ncelebrating the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, known as the<br>\nMooncake festival.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese usually give mooncakes to their relatives as gifts<br>\nduring the mid-autumn celebration, which falls on the 15th day<br>\nevery eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar (Peh Gwee Cap<br>\nGo). This year, it falls on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n<p>In Indonesia, mooncakes can easily be bought in \"Chinatown\"<br>\nareas, including along Jl. Pancoran, Glodok, West Jakarta, or<br>\nstar-rated hotels, such as Shangri-La and Mulia Senayan, both in<br>\nCentral Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Shangri-La and Mulia Senayan are both celebrating the mooncake<br>\nfestival from Aug. 15 to Sept. 28 by providing many different<br>\nvarieties of mooncake.<\/p>\n<p>\"All the ingredients in our mooncakes are imported from Hong<br>\nKong,\" Shangri-La communications coordinator Gloria Vera Kristie<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Wijaya, the owner of Sie Sin, a shop selling mooncakes in<br>\nGlodok, said buyers usually started to purchase mooncakes four<br>\ndays before the festival.<\/p>\n<p>\"There will be many buyers on those days. People buy mooncakes<br>\nand give them to their relatives to show their love and create<br>\nharmony,\" Wijaya told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said Indonesian mooncakes were more varied than those found<br>\nelsewhere due to local influences.<\/p>\n<p>In most countries only five kinds of mooncakes can be found,<br>\nwith lotus seeds being the main ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>Wijaya said that besides the usual ingredients, like lotus<br>\nseeds and egg yolks, Indonesian mooncakes could be made with<br>\ndurian (strong-tasting local fruit) or pineapple.<\/p>\n<p>\"We sell 36 varieties of mooncake. The lotus mooncakes are<br>\nonly consumed by totok (older, more traiditional) Chinese. The<br>\nyounger Chinese have more varied tastes,\" Wijaya said.<\/p>\n<p>Mooncakes are sold at Rp 15,000 (US$1.6) to Rp 40,000 apiece,<br>\ndepending on the ingredients.<\/p>",
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