September 24, 2006
Moon Cake Cell Phones
With China's Moon Cake Festival coming up - also know as the Mid-Autumn Festival - Nokia is is bundling cell phone moon cakes with their handsets Taiwan, according to phonemag. "These limited gifts are to give away by 8 October with purchase of any nokia music phones at appointed retailers. "
The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month. Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese and is an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families and lovers get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems.
... The moon cake is the food for the Moon Festival. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the sky. Click here to view pictures of the typical moon cake. [via About Chinese Culture]
Other edible phones:
-- Nokia's Valentine's Chocolate
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