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words.hk lists 中秋 and 中秋節 on one page. 中秋節 is zung1 cau1 zit3. 中秋 is zung1 cau1. It is an East Asian festival fixed on the fifteenth of the eighth lunar month. Celebrations differ by place. The Hong Kong sentence says the day is marked by eating mooncakes and by playing with lanterns and candles. The example says burn gel sells especially well around then. Burn gel, 燙火膏, is marked tong1 fo2 gou1. The entry does not say why sales rise.

八月十五 baat3 jyut6 sap6 ng5 has two entries. The first says it usually means the fifteenth of the eighth lunar month, that is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The example asks how the day will be spent. The second is tagged slang, same reading: the full moon, extended to the buttocks, measure 個. 籮柚 is on the near-synonym list. The example is coarse and is not quoted here.

月餅 jyut6 beng2. Most have a wheat-flour skin around a filling. The traditional fillings named are fruit, lotus paste, egg yolk, nuts, bean paste, and even ham. Newer ones named are ice cream, dried seafood and tea. The entry then says the kind common in Hong Kong is the Cantonese mooncake, filled with lotus paste and egg yolk. The measures are 件 or 嚿. 蓮蓉 has no page of its own. On this page the collocation 冰皮月餅 is marked bing1 pei4 jyut6 beng2.

冰皮 has its own page, read bing1 pei2. The gloss is one clause: a short name for the snowy mooncake. The measures are again 件 or 嚿. The example asks whether traditional mooncakes or snowy ones are preferred. to-jyutping reads the whole name 冰皮月餅 as bing1 pei2 jyut6 beng2, which matches the 冰皮 page and not the pei4 on the mooncake page. The player uses 冰皮.

柚 jau2 is a fruit likened to tangerines and oranges, traditionally eaten at Mid-Autumn, measure 個. The English gloss is grapefruit. The example suggests buying one at a wet market as the festival approaches. 碌柚 has no page. The 沙田柚 entry uses the word: a gourd-shaped pomelo, saa1 tin4 jau2, whose place of origin is Shatian in Guangxi. The measures are 隻 or 個. to-jyutping reads 碌柚 as luk1 jau2. There is also a Sha Tin in the New Territories. This entry does not mention it.

燈籠 has no page. to-jyutping gives dang1 lung4. 花燈 faa1 dang1 is a lantern used as festival decoration, measure 盞. The example says Victoria Park has many to look at during Mid-Autumn. 維園 wai4 jyun2 is tagged a proper name, short for Victoria Park, in Causeway Bay, the largest park on Hong Kong Island. One collocation is 維園阿伯.

大坑 daai6 haang1 is also a proper name: the flat land and the hillside housing south-east of Causeway Bay and south of Tin Hau. The collocation 大坑舞火龍 is marked daai6 haang1 mou5 fo2 lung4. Its English calls it a Mid-Autumn tradition of that community. 舞火龍 has no page of its own. Another collocation is 大坑蓮花宮, glossed as a temple for Kwun Yam. 賞月 has no page. to-jyutping gives soeng2 jyut2.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 中秋, 八月十五, 月餅, 冰皮, 柚, 沙田柚, 花燈, 維園, 大坑