Search for Moon Cake Fails

In a previous post I mentioned that I would go to the festival of Cap Go Meh. It was when I talked about how I celebrated the Chinese New Year 2566. In the same post I also mentioned that one of my missions was to find a moon cake. I have been craving one since Singapore. Clearly I failed the mission as the title already says.

I was not on my own. We went to the festival on Malioboro Street, along the alley of Ketandan to be exact. Every year during Cap Go Meh the alley always becomes the city's own China Town. From the food to the songs sung and played are Chinese themed. The alley of Ketandan is long enough to gather various vendors, mostly food ones. People like us who can't consume anything of pork need to be careful with choosing the food.

We left for the alley at 7 in the evening. It was two days ago. Our journey to the alley was fine except for the traffic. But that was normal as Malioboro Street is rarely quite in the night. What was a bit annoying was that it suddenly rained as we parked our vehicle. We got there safe and at the right timing. We didn't get wet at all. 

Luckily enough the alley where the festival is held is always covered during the festival. The rain was not a big problem. The crowd, though, could not walk along the edge of the alley because the cover was the same size as the alley. The rain water escaped to the edge of the alley. That means that the crowd kind of pushed themselves even more into the center of the alley to avoid getting wet.

By the way, beside the food vendors and other vendors along the alley, there were also two performance stages. One smaller stage was for a karaoke -Chinese songs only. One bigger stage was for dance performance.

Not The Alley But Inside of The Bigger Stage Area

Bigger Stage Where School Kids Performed Balinese Dance to A Chinese Song

We had wedang kacang and ketan duren. We left the festival and stopped for warm, soupy dinner at Soto Kudus. It was drizzling on our way to the dinner place. So, it was quite nice.