Mooncake chess combines game and treats

The mooncake is the traditional Chinese food for Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Sept. 12 this year, or Aug. 15 on the Chinese lunar calendar. A bakery in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, sells chess pieces made from mooncakes. In this version of the popular board game Xiang Qi (Chinese chess), which represents the battle between two armies - red and black - players can eat the mooncake pieces when they are captured and removed from the board. The creative Xiang Qi mooncake is a hot seller, local media reported. [CFP]

月餅象棋寓智于樂

月餅是中國人中秋節(jié)的傳統(tǒng)食品，今年的中秋節(jié)（農(nóng)歷8月15日）是公歷9月12日。江蘇南京一家面點房制作出一種象棋月餅。中國象棋中的紅方和黑方代表兩軍之戰(zhàn)。下月餅象棋時，棋手可以真的吃掉捕獲對方的月餅棋子。具當?shù)孛襟w報道，這一獨具創(chuàng)意的象棋月餅十分暢銷。