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See the lantern festival on Hai An Road tonight. Bring ear plugs for the firework display. Also a fireworks competition in Tu Chung Temple in Annan.

The Lantern Festival (also known as the Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival in China; Chap Goh Meh Festival in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore; Yuen Siu Festival in Hong Kong, and "Tết Thượng Nguyên" or "Tết Nguyên Tiêu" in Vietnam); is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the Chinese calendar, the last day of the lunisolar Chinese New Year celebration. It is not to be confused with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is sometimes also known as the "Lantern Festival" in locations such as Singapore and Malaysia. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns (simplified Chinese: 猜ç

Love to watch the Lantern Festival, and it's a perfect bonding moments with the family, and also like to eat mooncakes, mooncakes nowadays have so many varieties and its getting more tasty and so yummy..,