Ladies and gentleman boys and girls welcome to London welcome to London's Chinatown today
its mid Autumn festival AKA Mooncake festival so I thought I would come and check out the
the lanterns and celebrations here in London's Chinatown I've had some moon cake and some
bubble tea and some Bao now this video is live I've been here filming a video that will
come out much later in the month this is live so it might be a little bit unstable if your
watching it live if your watching it later it will be a little bit more stable but yeah
don't worry if it doesn't look like normal that is the price you pay for live video but
Chinatown buzzing tonight for Mid Autumn festival a lot of the bakeries shut quite early so
I got here much earlier got myself some mooncake I got both red bean and lotus paste moon cakes
if you don't know what Mid Autumn festival is you'll need to Google that its a big event
in China and obviously London has well the UK has a very big Chinese and Asian community
so a lot of people celebrating here in London check out Chinatown it looks amazing decorated
for the festival the lanterns get strung up for big events like Chinese New Year and this
one Mid Autumn festival and Chinatown always looks amazing it smells amazing with all the
restaurants and take away's along here and at this time of year especially at night it
looks super atmospheric and yeah it smells great there is a lot of people here a lot
of families I see earlier getting mooncake and mooncake from the the bakeries and mooncake
from the supermarkets nice boxed ones for gifts but yeah you'll have to wait until later
in the month to see my mooncakes and a lot of the bakeries are shutting now although
this cake shop there as you see looks pretty popular well they are always pretty popular
when aren't cakes popular yeah check out the the shot of Chinatown from this end and the
pagodas obviously the reason mooncake festival is today is there will be a fat full moon
but its pretty cloudy here today in London so you can't see a thing other than clouds
but maybe we will see the moon a little later just about to around here there is more lanterns
strung throughout Chinatown check it out OK right I'am going to call it a call it a night
there I hope you enjoyed this brief glimpse of Chinatown for mid Autumn festival aka mooncake
festival and you'll see plenty more later in the month but yeah the lanterns are strung
all the way through chinatown they are probably up be up for a few more days if your here
I'll show you down this street just around here and I'll see you in the next video Toodles!
Toodles!