This Friday would be the annual Mid-Autumn Festival (a.k.a Moon Festival) for the Chinese / Taiwanese / Korean communities. In the past there are a few "standard" ways to celebrate it, to name a few:
- Staring at the full moon for the whole night (and thinking about life and death...)
- BBQ under the moonlight (which most families in Taiwan do)
- Of course, eating lots of moon cakes and see what's the fortune note you'd get (works better if swallowing it. haha.)!
My wife and I have decided to do something different this year. Since we are helping promote Mozilla Firefox in Taiwan, obviously, during this special time of the year, we are thinking about the "How-To" stuff...as titled. : )
Step1: Get couple bags and Firefox stickers (tks to Gen Kanai). Make sure the sticker is attached to the center...sorry, not that center, a bit higher, of the bag.
Step2: Find a nearby grocery store, ask for Taiwanese Grapefruit (柚子/文旦). It's certainly the best with BBQ and moon cake. This time we've selected the top quality grapefruit from Mattau (麻豆), a small village from Southern Taiwan. We pick smaller ones, which are sweeter and juicy. They also smell good at their butt, really :-P
Step3: Pack them.
Step4: Make those bags line up as an "F", or any shape that looks good.
Step5: Give it to your friends and relatives, best with a FF CD-Rom (if for the elder). Happy Moon Festival!!
(photo upcoming soon)
We can tell people are happy about what we do. In the Chinese / Taiwanese community, Good food / fruit is always one of the best marketing tools. Next year we might do FF moon cake, before that, we might make a FF boat for annual dragon-boat festival.
