The Hungry Ghost Festival – Zhong Yuan Jie – 中元节

Zhong Yuan Jie (中元节), the Hungry Ghost Festival, is often compared to Chinese Halloween. Falling on the fifteenth night of the seventh lunar month, it is believed that on this night the gates of the afterlife are opened for spirits and ghosts to return to the world of the living.

Video: Halloween Special 2015 – Jack-o-Melon

To get into the spirit (haha) of Halloween, today we taste some spooky pumpkin pudding flavored Kit Kats from Japan, and figure out how to make a jack-o-lantern when you can’t find a suitable pumpkin to carve.

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