Definition of "mooncake" [mooncake]

• A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival. (noun)

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• "Practically every food shop, restaurant, duty-free and department store I've visited here has had some kind of mooncake boxed assortment on offer, in elaborate packaging."
• "My Chinese friend said this would be used to make a simple Chinese almond cookie, or a special kind of mooncake you know, the kind with sweetened bean filling."
• "A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]: 月餅; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: yuèbĭng) is a heavy [[Chinese]] [[pastry]]."