The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar commemorates the end of the fall harvest, with celebrants lighting lanterns and exchanging mooncakes—decorative filled pastries. This year the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 17, and at Jeng Chi restaurant, preparations began many months ago.Tucked away in the suburb of Richardson, just twenty minutes north of Dallas, Jeng Chi has an unassuming strip mall exterior that gives way to a vast kitchen, where a team of five makes hundreds of mooncakes by hand every morning in the four months leading up to the festival season. At the head of the assembly line, Yuan and Mei Teng, who own the restaurant, oversee quality control.The Tengs’ mooncakes have called three continents home. Yuan’s father founded…
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