Cookbay Back-to-School Bundle · Tea by the Stove, Moon Overhead｜Jingyun Electric Ceramic Stove ＋ Moon-Gazing Teapot in Soda White · Mid-Autumn falls on 25 September, right in move-in week

Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 falls on 25 September. That week you'll most likely have just moved into halls — barely a lecture attended, barely a name learnt.

Back home, Mid-Autumn needs no thought at all — someone buys the mooncakes, the table lays itself. It's the first year away that teaches you: a festival has to be arranged, or it slips past without a sound.

Tea round a little stove — the easiest excuse there is to gather people

• Simmering on top — white tea, pu-erh, red date and longan tea, aged white tea with chenpi; once the steam rises, the whole room smells of it
• Roasting round the edge — little mandarins, chestnuts, niangao rice cakes, peanuts, sweet potatoes; getting the skins properly charred is the point
• Mid-Autumn flavours from every region — Cantonese lotus paste with salted yolk, Suzhou-style fresh pork mooncakes (even better warmed in an air fryer), Chaoshan lao bing, Yunnan ham mooncakes, Beijing zilaihong. With a pot of hot tea, it's that afternoon from home
• Not only for the festival — British winters run long; this stove earns its keep from September straight through to March

What's in the bundle

• Cookbay Stove-Side Tea Set — Jingyun electric ceramic stove ＋ Moon-Gazing Teapot, in soda white

Why order now

Mid-Autumn is 25 September, landing square on Welcome Week (Manchester / Leeds / Nottingham / Sheffield 21–25 September; UCL move-in 26–27 September). To have it in hand on the day itself, order by 12 September at the latest.

Ships from our Birmingham warehouse. Order by 12 September and it's guaranteed to reach your accommodation before Mid-Autumn.