SPECIALS
Kiki Bakery
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This Taiwanese bakery is promoting handmade mooncakes, with choices for assorted Chinese language-style mooncakes or Taiwanese-style mooncakes with candy crimson bean paste and a salted egg yolk middle.
Haller Lake
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If you wish to impress and/or delight somebody this Mid-Autumn Pageant, this dessert firm recognized primarily for its layered crêpe truffles is presently providing a “Celestial Splendor” mooncake present set, full with two of every taste (Earl Gray, black sesame, and passionfruit) made in collaboration with the Taiwanese chain Kee Wah Bakery. The entire set comes packaged in an attention grabbing laser-cut lantern, which is adorned with illustrations of rabbits, the moon, lanterns, starfruit, and osmanthus timber and which will be illuminated to mission a picture of a fortunate rabbit.
Bellevue
Lam’s Seafood Market
Little Saigon’s trusty Asian seafood market has stacks upon stacks of colourful boxed mooncakes in inventory.
Chinatown-Worldwide District, Tukwila
Kemi Dessert Bar
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Pastry chef Kelly Miao’s playful, nostalgic Asian American pop-up Kemi Dessert Bar is presently accepting mooncake pre-orders for pickup at her upcoming brick-and-mortar bakery location within the former Coping Cookies
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house on Capitol Hill this Saturday, September 14. The pastel-hued treats are available whimsical floral designs and have 4 flavors: pandan pineapple, black sesame, osmanthus lotus, and strawberry crimson bean.
Capitol Hill, Phinney Ridge
Mee Sum Pastry
This longtime staple bakes its mooncakes all yr spherical, with fillings like crimson bean, lotus, and winter melon.
Pike Place Market, College District
Regent Bakery
This native Chinese language bakery chainlet units itself other than the remainder of the mooncake crowd with its golden yolk custard mooncakes, which function a fragile flaky crust and a moist egg yolk custard filling. Different choices embody white lotus seed, crimson bean, pineapple, and dates. On-line orders can be found for pickup from the Bellevue location solely.
Bellevue, Capitol Hill, Redmond
Uwajimaya
After all, the long-lasting Asian grocery store carries a wide array of mooncakes, together with conventional Cantonese-style mooncakes, snow pores and skin mooncakes, Taiwanese-style flaky mooncakes (which have a flaky outer pores and skin and are sometimes adorned with sesame seeds or a crimson dot), and lava mooncakes (which have a buttery crust and comprise custard with a molten egg yolk middle).
Chinatown-Worldwide District, Bellevue, Renton
EVENTS
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Be part of the U-District’s Ladd & Lass Brewing for a harvest moon celebration with an look from the Asian-inspired snack combine pop-up Gochiso (2-6 pm), hearty Central American and Mexican fare from La Riviera Maya Meals Truck, and a particular launch of Taro Up My Coronary heart, a brand new mid-autumn pageant lager brewed in collaboration with Fortunate Envelope. Plus, channel your interior little one with a coloring contest for an opportunity to win improbable prizes.
Ladd & Lass Brewing, 2-10 pm
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Ballard’s culturally impressed craft brewery Fortunate Envelope Brewing at all times goes all out for Mid-Autumn Pageant, and this yr is not any exception. They’re going to host a celebration with new beer releases (together with Taro Up My Coronary heart lager and Mid-Autumn Hazy IPA infused with açaí blueberry black tea), baked mooncakes, and restricted giveaways of crimson envelopes for good luck (a Chinese language custom that impressed the enterprise’s identify). The meals truck Panda Dim Sum may also sling pan-fried noodles, pork buns, dumplings, lotus leaf sticky rice wraps, and potstickers out of a refurbished college bus.
Fortunate Envelope Brewing, 12-10 pm
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The C-ID Evening Market took a break in 2023 however makes a triumphant return in late September with a day and night of eats, purchasing, and cultural performances. The streets will probably be closed to automotive site visitors so you may leisurely discover meals distributors and nosh on snacks like dumplings and noodles earlier than heading over to Hing Hay Park to take a look at a lion dance, taiko efficiency, and martial arts demonstrations. The solar units two hours earlier than the market closes, so the atmosphere will shift from golden hour to glowing lanterns. SHANNON LUBETICH
Hing Hay Park, 1-9 pm