They get together with their loved ones and worship the moon. It's much cooler than putting out milk and cookies for a fat dude in a red suit when you think about it. They go to Victoria Park, sit under the big bright full moon with their lanterns and munch on, what else, but mooncakes.
Here in Hong Kong they don't have a 'man in the moon' but rather a 'woman in the moon'. According to Howard the story goes something along the lines of:
'There once was an Emperor that wanted to live forever, so he had a magical pill made that would give him immortality. One day, his wife came along and ate it on him, so she got to go up in the moon to live forever, and not him.'
I'm sure ther's more to it than that, but either way, Causeway Bay is nuts right now.The place was packed last night. It was like milling through a concert. With hour-long waits at the restaurants and traffic cops on every corner.
I am imagining today will be just as intense.
One of the drawbacks of being in a frantic industry like advertising, in a frantic country like Hong Kong, is that you need to work on the weekend sometimes, and your holidays as well. Ugh.
So, it's off to work I go.
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