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Jiang Yichun and Jiang Yijie pose in the former's dormitory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, holding a photo of them taken during their childhood, Sept 10, 2016. [Photo/IC]

Among millions of freshmen who started their college lives this year, two twin girls became much envied for their equally outstanding excellence.

Jiang Yichun and Jiang Yijie, twin sisters from Shanghai, were both admitted to prestigious Chinese universities in Shanghai.

Besides the versatile sisters' academic abilities, they also practice ballet and piano and enjoy running, badminton and basketball.

Their mother is a writer who encouraged them to love reading and learning when they are very young. Their father works in the financial industry and usually traveled with the girls extensively.
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Jiang Yichun and Jiang Yijie pose in the building on the campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, holding a photo of them taken during their childhood, Sept 10, 2016. [Photo/IC]
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An undated photo of the twin sisters Jiang Yichun and Jiang Yijie taken during their childhood. [Photo/IC]
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Jiang Yichun and Jiang Yijie pose with their parents at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University campus, Sept 10, 2016 [Photo/IC]
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bd popeye said:
Just what do mooncakes taste like? They look like they should be sweet. I may have asked this several years ago.
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Mooncakes have a flour skin and some flavored insert. When properly baked, they would have a crispy skin and gooey inside. Yep! They are sweet. Some of them also have salty elements. Some southern style mooncakes have salty egg yolk(s) in them. So they can be either sweet, salty, or both.

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If you can find an Asian market somewhere nearby, you will find mooncakes. You can give it a try. But they won't be on shelf forever. Strangely, mooncakes only appear in stores a month or so before the Mid-Autumn festival. And they would disappear all together after the festival. It's still a mystery to me why the stores don't leave the mooncakes on shelf for a few more months... I don't know when exactly the coming-up Mid-Autumn festival is but it is close. So if you want to taste it, better hurry up...

I actually love them! Every year, we buy mooncakes as gifts for our parents and buy one more box for ourselves. If my wife doesn't restrain me, I would finish the whole box in one sitting... and some more if there is any... I know that most of the ingredients in the mooncakes are pretty unhealthy, but I just can't help it...

And when we present our mooncakes gift to my parents, I would stare at my mom with sad puppy face so that my mom knows that they should open the box immediately and I can get some mooncakes...:p:p:p
 
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No offense, yes they're cute but I'm not eating whatever they are making (kids and their dirty hands).o_O:p
 
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Equation said:
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No offense, yes they're cute but I'm not eating whatever they are making (kids and their dirty hands).o_O:p
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I think they might be making a mooncake. The meatball-looking thingy would be the inside and the flat pancake is the flour skin (made from mixing flour and oil). After the wrapping, the whole thing would be pushed into a wooden mold that would give the mooncake its typical look. Then the baking...

And I would not eat whatever these kids make too! It just looks nasty...
 
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