1688, Gabriel Magaillans Gabriel de Magalhães, A New History of China, Containing a Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of that Vast Empire. Chapter Of Several Other Palaces, and Some Temples Erected within the Same Enclosures, The fifteenth Day of the eighth Moon, is ſolemniz'd by the Chineſes with great feaſting and rejoycing. ... To this purpoſe, the preceding Days they ſend to one another Preſents of little Loaves and Sugar-Cakes, which they call Yue Pim, or Moon-Cakes. They are round, but the biggeſt, which are about two hands breadth in diameter, and repreſent the Full Moon, have every one a Hare in the middle made of a Paſt of Walnuts, Almonds, Pine-Apple-Kernels and other Indgredients. Theſe they eat by the Light of the moon; the Richer ſort having their Muſick alſo playing about 'em, which is very good.
1819, Robert Morrison, w, Mei-kwei 玫丨玫瑰 name of a pearl; also of a round cake, called the moon-cake, eaten at the harvest moon; ...
1890, Yan Phou Lee, The Boys and Girls of China, Maybe his mother has promised him a mango or a moon-cake if he would be good; ...
2012, Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists Chapter 10, Tea and moon-cakes were served after dinner. The cakes came in square, octagonal and round shapes, each one about two inches thick and covered in a soft, brown skin. Emily cut them into quarter slices and handed them round.
