I'm stuck at my home away from home, the Alaska Airlines gate in the San Jose airport, waiting for a flight that is now 2 hours late. Sigh. This happens far too frequently.
I did get a laugh going through security. My backpack (dutifully emptied of laptop and 1-quart bag of 100ml or less liquids/gels) got searched. The TSA person went straight to the box of moon cakes that were in my bag. The look on his face when he opened up the box was priceless. The inspector saw some suspicious dense blobs in the X-ray image, which triggered the search. Those dense blobs were the egg yolks in the moon cakes!
This wasn't as funny as the time I got the full luggage search in the airport in Paris - that time I had found a gag gift that I was bringing home. I'll never forget the look on his face and the way he said with his wonderful French-accented English, "Cat Butt Magnets????"
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Pardon my ignorance, but what's a moon cake? I was thinking marshmallow, but I guess that's a moon *pie*. How are egg yolks involved?
As we say at my house, hope your next travel event is boring.
thanks for the boring travel wishes - we do the same thint in our family - wishing everyone uneventful travels.
Moon cakes are a Chinese pastry, produced once a year for the Autumm Festival.
Here's a link to what wikipedia has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake
They are definitely an acquired taste (especially the ones with the egg yolks!). My husband, who did not grow up eating moon cakes, is not as fond of them as I am.
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