Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節), a harvest festival celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar with full moon at night. On the festival day, family members gather to offer sacrifice to the moon, appreciate the bright full moon, and eat moon cakes. As such, my classmate was with her family while I am home alone. I ventured out to a nearby night market and tasted two famous Taiwanese snacks: Braised Pork Rice (Lu Rou Fan， 滷肉饭) and Meatball Mochi (ba-wan 肉圆).
The braised pork rice is covered with pork belly cooked in an abundance of soy sauce, caramel sauce along with five spices. The meatball Michu is a dumpling with a filling of pork, mushrooms and bamboo shoot. The snack dates back to the time of Qing dynasty when it was believed to be made by a student as a food for the flood victims.
A lot of stores still open today. In the afternoon, I got a no-ppd and no-ammonia vege-based hair dye at $160 TWD ($5 USD) from a pharmacy, and had a hair dresser cut my dessert-damaged hair at $150 TWD ($5 USD) and dye my hair at $500 TWD ($ 16.5 USD), which totaled just about one simple hair cut in USA.
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