> I thought moon pies were those *horrible* Chinese soft dumpling thingies with beans inside, that you get on the Eighth Moon festival? But surely Wolfspirit would have heard of them if so. Maybe they're translated differently elsewhere.

Those are supposed to be "moon cakes." They're made for the Autumn Harvest Moon festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar), right. The cake contents are: candied nuts like watermelon and lotus seeds; candied peel; red-bean paste or lotus-seed paste, with half a cooked duck's egg in the middle. Is this what you mean by "horrible soft dumplings", or is that something else? Moon cakes are brown and glazed with egg yolk pastry, and the whole thing is actually quite firm in texture whilst simultaneously crumbly.

Personally, I dislike moon cakes -- they look extravagant but taste boring. I'll bet they can keep for months in a tropical climate, though, which is probably why they're "traditional".