Citizens in a dozen of Chinese cities had opportunities to taste super moon cakes while the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching.

In Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, hundreds of people ate up a 40-kilogram moon cake within one hour on Wednesday.

Among those tasting the pastry were athletes, construction workers, farmers, and citizens living near the Lanzhou Sports Park.

It took the chefs nearly six hours to make the cake, which is 2.8 meters in diameter.

Organizers of the activity named the moon cake the "China 2.8" in honor of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on next Tuesday this year, a festival marked by Chinese around the world as a day of family reunion.

One month ago, a super large moon cake, weighing nearly 13 tons was made in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Referred to as the "No. 1 of Chinese Moon Cakes", this cake is 8.15 meters in diameter and 20 centimeters in height, and has a coating weighing one ton, and filling weighing 12 tons.

It took ten chefs more than 10 hours to make the king cake.

Moon cakes are a popular pastry eaten by the Chinese during the Mid-Autumn Festival. During this holiday, tens of millions of moon cakes are consumed throughout the country.

(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2007)