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Grocery Ninja: Mooncakes and the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Grocery Ninja leaves no aisle unexplored, no jar unopened, no produce untasted. Creep along with her below, and read her past market missions here. I have often wondered how Western parents deal with restless kids at big family gatherings. You know, the huge, messy reunions that involve plane tickets, sitting for hours in bumper-to-bumper congestion, weeks of advance planning, and easy-listening music blaring everywhere. Before the days of PlayStations and DVDs, how did they ensure that les enfants terribles would be seen and not heard? In my family, the aunts and uncles would tell us 15 rascally cousins stories that, in hindsight, were calculated to keep us as still and quiet as possible. Tomorrow, on the 15th day of...

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11 Comments | Posted by Wan Yan Ling, September 24, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Tagged: Chinese, Grocery Ninja, holidays, Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes