You may heard of Moon Cake, a traditional Chinese seasonal snack.
Chinese eat it mainly, if not only, at full moon day of September, when the moon is believed to be the most bright and round in a year, and celebrate it as mid-autumn festival. Generally speaking, moon cake is round shaped, and shared by family members together in the night watching the perfect moon, symbolizing the round moon, as well as reunion of family members. Just like Thanksgiving in north America, mid-autumn festival is the second important festival in China only less than Spring festival.
Chinese don't eat much sugar as Westerns, but it is an exception for moon cake, which is very sweet and greasy, wishing life to be sweet too. In the photo you can tell an round seasoned egg yellow eye, usually duck's, which also symbolize the round moon, and taste delicious too.
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