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- noun Plural form of
mooncake .
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Examples
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The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday said that some finished products such as mooncakes and coffee beverages made with imported toxic milk powder have already been sold and consumed.
Taipei Times 2008
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The DOH said the powder had not been made into any infant products in Taiwan, but that it had been sold to bakeries, farmers and biochemical companies in many parts of Taiwan to be put into products such as mooncakes, bread, canned coffee beverages, papaya milk beverages, calcium tablets and fertilizer.
Taipei Times 2008
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Zhang Wenkui/Xinhua/Zuma Press A person displayed mooncakes at a bakery in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province, on Sept. 4.
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Gao Xinsheng/Xinhua/Zumapress.com People made mooncakes, the traditional Chinese food to celebrate the festival, in Yuncheng, China's Shanxi province.
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The celebration is marked by the consumption of round pastry mooncakes filled with lotus-seed paste and a salted duck egg, as well as the exchange of generous gifts, including, in recent years, expensive bottles of Bordeaux.
Overheard 2011
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Unknown, but the research team needed to make an emergency run for red-bean mooncakes at 2am.
Just because you're dead, that doesn't mean you can't still mellow out 2009
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Most recently, the company made a Moon Festival comic strip and released branded mooncakes just for its fastest growing market.
Maker of Angry Birds Impressed, Not Enraged, by China Piracy 2011
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The Tea Lover: High-end tea purveyor TWG in Singapore has a Snow Skin line of mooncakes that includes "Midnight Bliss," dark chocolate mousse infused with French Earl Grey Tea, and "Cerise Noire," pistachio mousse with a cherry marmalade center; S$15 each, or about US$11 (www. twgtea.com).
Mooncake Madness 2010
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The I-Scream-for-Ice-Cream: H agen-Dazs gets into the fray with a Rainbow Collection of nine ice-cream filled mooncakes, each one featuring a different ice-cream filling (including vanilla, apricots and cream, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate and coffee); HK$599 a box (HK$699 after Sept. 9.)
Mooncake Madness 2010
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The Purple Princess: This special edition of mooncakes made with sweet purple potato (yes, purple potato) has an egg-yolk center.
Mooncake Madness 2010
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