My workplace has many different races on the staff, and I was having morning tea with Gloria, from Hong Kong. She very generously shared out slices of her Moon Cake, and related how her family celebrated the Moon Festival when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Gloria told us of the legend surrounding the Moon festival. Overrun by the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Chinese threw off their oppressors in 1368 AD, passing along plans for the rebellion hidden in their Moon Cakes.
Robin’s Indian customers are particularly generous when he calls for their orders. Sometimes his customers make him a cup of spicy Indian tea, or wrap up some Indian sweets for him to take home for us both to share. Now and again he is urged to try a dish of curry, and he is particularly fond of a hot buttered chapatti.
Interaction with other cultures is very interesting, and sharing food is a universal sign of friendship.
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