Find Stellar Mooncakes in Los Angeles to Ring in the Mid-Autumn Festival

"The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on October 6 this year, bringing with it egg yolk-filled mooncakes, lantern lighting, and family gatherings. Chinatown restaurant Firstborn will ring in the festival with limited-time specials. A chestnut lotus seed tart ($80), a hybrid of a mooncake and a Mont-Blanc, is available for pre-order and pick up through October 2. The dessert from pastry chef Jaime Craten begins with a pâte sablée crust and butter cake sponge, gets filled with lotus seed and roasted chestnut paste,"

"and then topped with whipped mascarpone. A Mid-Autumn martini with green Szechuan peppercorn is available to pre-order as well; the $32 ready-to-pour cocktail serves two. Firstborn will now also offer its fried Chongqing chicken for takeout, with duck fat rice, preserved cucumbers, and daikon radish. The $75 meal comes with eight to 10 pieces of chicken and is intended to feed three to four people."

"Mooncakes are now available at Chinatown standby Phoenix Bakery, which may be better known for its iconic strawberry cake. Its mooncakes are available now through the Mid-Autumn festival with salted egg yolks and lotus paste. Domi is selling pastel-colored mooncakes with snow skin, which swaps the denser shortbread crust for a rice flour-based mochi-like exterior. The mooncakes are available with black sesame, taro, red bean, or matcha, or in a box with all four flavors. Domi's mooncakes are gluten-free."

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on October 6, with egg yolk-filled mooncakes, lantern lighting, and family gatherings. Chinatown restaurant Firstborn offers limited-time specials, including a chestnut lotus seed tart ($80) for pre-order and pick up through October 2, made with a pâte sablée crust, lotus seed and roasted chestnut paste, and topped with whipped mascarpone. Firstborn also sells a $32 ready-to-pour Mid-Autumn martini with green Szechuan peppercorn that serves two. The restaurant offers fried Chongqing chicken takeout with duck fat rice, preserved cucumbers, and daikon; the $75 meal feeds three to four people. Local bakeries such as Phoenix Bakery, Domi, Aliya Lavaland, and Kee Wah sell traditional, gluten-free, and non-traditional mooncakes.

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