Friends and families visit and eat together, often outdoors. The most typical treat, however, are mooncakes made from a wheat-flour dough, stamped with Chinese characters, and baked to a rich golden brown. In northern China, mooncakes have two fillings a sugar paste or a date paste. In southern China, the fillings are more varied they include ham, preserved apricots, sweet bean puree, walnuts, and watermelon seeds. Vietnamese Like the Chinese Moon Festival, Tet Trung Thu celebrates the harvest.
Lantern processions are typical with candies and mooncakes as treats.
This is the anniversary of the historic occasion in 1810 when Mexicans first took arms against their Spanish rulers. Today the bell that summoned the original rebels is rung by the president on the evening of the holiday. These are mixtures of white cornmeal with meat, vegetables, and seasonings wrapped in a corn husk and cooked inside a banana or other large leaf, which keeps them moist. Fillings, and the leaves to cook them in, vary from region to region. Another especially patriotic dish is chiles in nogada .