Three months ago

Three months ago today our dossier was mailed off to China.  So much has happened since then, we have so much to celebrate! I joined a Facebook group for individuals in the similar stages of adoption as us, and yesterday Moms and moms-to-be were discussing moon cakes.  The Chinese Mid Autumn Festival is coming up on September 30, and moon cakes are the treat de jour of this holiday.  I realized Tom and I had not been to Chinatown since we celebrated DTC, and we had never had any Chinese baked goods, so today we took a quick ride there:

I found this bakery, Chio Quon Bakery on Yelp, it appeared to be the go-to place for moon cakes and other Chinese treats:

What the website does not say is that every bakery item was between 80-90 cents. Heaven! We ended up getting a BBQ pork bun, a bean paste bun, a custard bun, a sesame ball, rice cake (for Tom, not my thing) and of course, two moon cakes, a lotus seed paste moon cake and a bean paste moon cake:

 The box- their cakes look awesome and we are definitely going back for one.

 Here are the cute little moon cakes.  They were very dense and sticky and reminded me of the Filipino desserts I have had.

The verdict? The lotus paste was delicious.  The bean paste? Well, by that time I had eaten a bean paste bun, so it didn't really do it for me, but we will going back for the lotus paste moon cakes for sure!!

We'll be going to the Moon Festival in Chinatown in the next 2 weeks and hopefully next year we'll go again, with Ben!