Mooncakes are incredibly high in calories. And the good ones can be expensive. My family usually cuts them into eighths, which makes for really small slivers but the taste is so rich anyway it's usually enough.

It's not always the same poem I don't think. Half the time there isn't a poem although the box is always pretty because people tend to use them as gifts. (although since everyone gives one to everyone else it becomes more a mooncake exchange than anything.)

Yes it's on the 25th this year! Mooncake + tea + looking at full moon, mmm.