While Earthlings gathered under the moon this Mid-Autumn Festival 🌕, three astronauts aboard China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft added stellar flair to the 2,000-year-old tradition – by hosting the first-ever orbital mooncake party! 🥮✨
The crew ditched their usual space meals for a festive spread featuring mushroom dishes, shrimp balls, tofu rolls, and osmanthus cheese rice cakes. But the real showstopper? Specially designed space mooncakes that stayed crumb-free in zero gravity – because nobody wants pastry floating into control panels! 🚨
‘We’ve got braised pork that’s out of this world 🌌, spicy lamb that’ll make your taste buds orbit, and black pepper beef that’s truly universal flavor,’ crew member Li Wei shared via space-to-Earth broadcast. The meal marked both cultural continuity and technological innovation, proving traditions can thrive even 400km above Earth.
