Mid-Autumn is Hong Kong's most atmospheric night of the year — families gather under the full moon with lanterns and mooncakes, parks fill with light, and in Tai Hang a 67-metre fire dragon dances through the back streets.
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What happens
Mooncakes are exchanged and eaten everywhere, children carry glowing lanterns, and the Tourism Board's lantern carnivals turn Victoria Park into a sea of light. Mooncakes range from traditional lotus-seed-and-salted-yolk to modern snow-skin versions.
Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance
Over the three nights around the festival, the Tai Hang neighbourhood parades a giant straw dragon studded with thousands of burning incense sticks through its lanes — a 140-year-old tradition and one of the city's most striking sights. Arrive early; the narrow streets fill fast.