China's Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on September 15th this year. Chinese people mark the festival by getting together with their families and eating mooncakes. Even if you're not in China, you can still get a taste of the festive atmosphere. We'll take you now to a special performance in Australia and a mooncake-making contest in Cape Town, South Africa.

Song and dance number... traditional Chinese opera... and acrobatic stunts.

Audiences got a front-seat pass in a variety show at city hall of Sydney, Australia.

Singer Wang Hongwei is a veteran to this kind of cultural exchange tour.

Chinese artists stage special performance in Australia. Even if you're not in China, you can still get a taste of the festive atmosphere.

"I'm really touched by the audience's enthusiasm, I've sung four songs and people still want to hear more. I'm very proud to perform here in Sydney, and I wish everyone a happy mid-autumn festival in advance," he said.

Audiences also get to see breathtaking acrobatic spectacle which fuses acrobatic stunts with traditional Chinese music, and even magic.

Along with gymnastics and balancing, performers put on spellbinding displays of Chinese yo-yo-ing and plate spinning. They were even tossing drums and plates with their feet.

Meanwhile in South Africa, students in Cape Town University have also gotten in on the mid-autumn festival fun by making some mooncakes.

A Chinese pastry chef is showing the students how to make a no-bake snow skin mooncake. It's a special kind of mooncake which originated in Hong Kong.

"After you've stuff the green bean paste fillings, you have to dredge your mooncake mold with glutinous flour. Place the mooncake ball and press it firmly until it forms a flat surface on the edge of that mooncake. Knock out to remove the mooncake from the mold," said You Mengyin, pastry chief.

Chinese artists stage special performance in Australia. Even if you're not in China, you can still get a taste of the festive atmosphere.

Traditional mooncakes use many ingredients like eggs, lotus seeds, and different kinds of nuts. Participants in the mooncake making competition need to cover the balls with dough skins, then mold them into a special pattern.

It's not the first time that foreigners had tasted this special Chinese dessert. Many of them have been in the country for years, but not many have tried to make mooncakes on their own.

And after the first attempt, the contestants tapped their Chinese peers to make mooncakes together.

The fastest group wins the competition -- but many believe that's not the highlight of the event.

Giving their mooncakes as a special gift ahead of the festival is what matters to them.

Round like the full moon, mooncakes are the symbolic food for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It's also a time for families to get together, and people who work far away will try to come back to reunite with their loved ones.