{"id":2043,"date":"2007-09-14T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/09\/14\/mooncakes-are-asias-fruitcakes\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:12:43","slug":"mooncakes-are-asias-fruitcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/mooncakes-are-asias-fruitcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooncakes are Asia&#8217;s fruitcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a co-worker who has had the opportunity to travel to our Singapore office. One of the foods he mentioned as being a particularly tasty treat while in the country was some dessert dish called a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mooncake\">mooncake<\/a>&#8220;. Just last week, we had one of our Singapore office IT staff visit the US for some cross-training. She brought a couple of these mooncakes with her as a treat for her American counterparts; a treat that my co-worker obviously found particularly pleasant given his previous love of the dessert.<\/p>\n<p>All of that puts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/09\/13\/mooncakes-shaped-lik.html\">this commentary from Cory Doctorow<\/a> in profound perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.googlepages.com\/quote.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><em>A couple nights back, I mentioned mooncakes at a dinner in Beijing and the table erupted in hilarity and derision &#8212; my hosts advised me that mooncakes are the Chinese equivalent of Christmas cakes &#8212; no one likes them, everyone gives them (<\/em><em>I like Christmas cake!). They are haloed with weird possible urban legends, like the scandal of a mooncake manufacturer that was recycling last year&#8217;s filling because no one can taste the difference between year-old and fresh mooncake stuffin&#8217;.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mooncake, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a co-worker who has had the opportunity to travel to our Singapore office. One of the foods he mentioned as being a particularly tasty treat while in the country was some dessert dish called a &#8220;mooncake&#8220;. Just last week, we had one of our Singapore office IT staff visit the US for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[507,505,508,356],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-culture","tag-food","tag-international","tag-quote-2","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}