Eventful Friday

We had a good work day on Friday with some good decisions and directions. In meetings with our co-workers we were given gifts of moon cakes. Moon cakes are given as gifts for the Moon Festival or mid-Autumn Festival. It is celebrated on the day of the full moon somewhere between the middle of September or the middle of October, when the moon is at its brightest during the year. This year it is October 6. This is festival that is celebrated by being with all your relatives and eating moon cakes. If you cannot be with your relatives you send them gifts of moon cakes. There are so many varieties and they are being sold all over China right now. Many are like figs and nuts like plum pudding.


One of our new work colleagues from the JPM Beijing Branch hosted the CCS work team for a beautiful dinner on Friday night. It was an old traditional Chinese courtyard restaurant which served Cantonese food. The restaurant is named Jun Wang Fu (Peninsula Restaurant). We had a private room for the group (10 of us). The host and his wife have been in China for 16 years, so they were very helpful with information for shopping and getting around. I know they will be a good resource to turn to if we need anything.

http://www.jwfbd.com/en/jdjj.asp