How do Malaysian Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? For Miki, it’s lanterns, pomelos, and sharing mooncakes — a quiet, cozy kind of reunion. But then she experienced spring feast in Yibin and discovered a completely different way to celebrate. Before every dish hits the table, everyone chants together. It’s so lively, it feels just like Chinese New Year! She says she wants to bring this sense of ritual back to Malaysia.

From a quiet reunion to a joyful gathering, one spring feast experience brought two cultures together under the same moon.