Then again, the Moon Rabbit has its fair share of contradictions.
ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY BDO WINDOWS
Wooden floors and exposed pillars, plenty of huge glass windows to let enough sunlight in, and light taupe walls make it feel as if you are in fact at home and not in a restaurant-a stark contrast to the stereotypical Chinese establishment. former preschool-turned-restaurant lures anyone with its swanky mid-century modern interiors that go well with the original structure. Or at least, not just that, either in a bid to differentiate it from the throngs of other restaurants in the vicinity or to temper the expectations of Chinese customers who come in anticipating familiar flavors of homemade dishes.īut regardless of familiarity with its dishes, this 1,500-sq.m. Although no other cuisine welds so much influence as Chinese in the menu, Patrick Sen, its operations manager, will be the first to admit that it is not strictly that.
Much like the contested contents of the lunar rabbit’s mortar, Moon Rabbit is a melting pot of influence. In San Juan, the legendary rabbit on the moon is the namesake of a restaurant called Moon Rabbit. Chilled tofu, Three Kinds of Eggs, and Hong Ma Foccacia In Japanese and Korean texts, for example, the rabbit is believed to be pounding the ingredients for rice cake, which makes sense and also leads some to believe that this glutinous food is actually the elixir of life. It was actually China-but not in a literal sense.Ī book of Chinese poems from the Warring States era tells of the story of a rabbit on the moon that constantly pounds herbs in a mortar to produce the elixir of immortality for the moon goddess Chang’e.* The folklore has been passed down to succeeding dynasties and taken various versions in other cultures.
This is done by the US to prove their (space) supremacy over the Soviet Union, who 12 years prior sent out a dog named Laika to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft called Sputnik 2.īut neither of these superpowers was actually the first to send out a living creature on the lunar surface. Last July, the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing by Americans Neil Armstrong and his Apollo 11 team.
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