How to say “Mooncake” in Cantonese

jyut6月beng2餅

jyut6 beng2 · Mooncake

A rich pastry filled with lotus seed paste and often salted egg yolk, given and eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.

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