❀ - [Video/Action] - 第五 [中秋節; Mid-Autumn Festival, Discedo]

[meilihua]

[Hopefully by now, most people on Fortuna have somehow received a prettily wrapped package containing four different varieties of home-made mooncake outside their doorstep. Those within Discedo had them hand-delivered; everyone else...hope they made it...]

Hey everyone! I know things have been really crazy recently, but if you have a chance [pause] and are in someplace where it's safe to do it [pause...], you should definitely go outside and take a look up at the moon! If you squint really closely, maybe you'll see Chang'e ( 嫦娥), the moon goddess who lives there, or the Jade Rabbit making medicine!

[A soft, kind of wistful laugh] At least, that's what I would say if we were at home...

Anyway, I hope all my packages made it safely, but even if it's not the same moon, you can definitely still eat the mooncake! There's 4 kinds: lotus-paste, red bean, green tea, and chocolate! Just for variety.

I included egg-yolk in a few of them, but you don't have to eat it if you don't like it.

[Oh wait...] Yeah, and I guess it's China's birthday tomorrow too.

祝你生日快樂，老師！ You're still old, by the way!

Oh, and I don't care if you changed to simplified, you're still going to have to get all your greetings in traditional from me! [Yes, Taiwan did just stick her tongue out in the video. How mature.]

Comments

[meilihua]

Well, I'm kind of in the mood for pudding... [And out come cream, eggs, chocolate, sugar...] Or maybe a chocolate mousse would be better, what do you think?

[shortestfuse]

I haven't tried mousse. I like pudding though. [ Understatement of the century. ] Are they easy to make?

[meilihua]

Yep! They're pretty easy if you have a good arm. Unless I can find my electric mixer...

[shortestfuse]

I can help, maybe. [ If he doesn't break the bowl- ] I got a good arm.

[meilihua]

Ah, really? Well, what if I measure out the ingredients and you mix it up?

[shortestfuse]

Sounds fair. [ He wouldn't know what to do with a cook book. He hovers near her, trying to watch and learn. ]

[meilihua]

[She starts by breaking the chocolate to melt in a glass bowl set in a pot of hot water over the stove, leaving that alone for a moment while she shoves a whisk in Shizuo's hand and directs him to whip the cream, keeping a critical eye on him as he works.]