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.

月餅是中國人中秋節的傳統食品，今年的中秋節（農歷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。下月餅象棋時，棋手可以吃掉捕獲并從棋盤上移走的月餅。具當地媒體報道，這一獨具創意的象棋月餅十分暢銷。

(China.org.cn September 5, 2011)