Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival this year with these indulgent mooncakes ranging from traditional baked favourites to unique cocktail-inspired snow skin creations.
Ah, Mid-Autumn Festival. Once a time for the ancient Chinese to celebrate crop harvest, these days this festival on the traditional Chinese Lunar calendar sees families come together for reunions, carry lanterns, and gaze at the moon.
And, of course, drink tea and eat plenty of mooncakes.
If you’re looking to celebrate this festive lunar occasion with yummy mooncakes, here’s a roundup of these delectable moon-shaped pastries filled with all manner of goodness from some of our favourite hotels.
Four Seasons Hotel Singapore
Award-winning authentic Cantonese Jiang Nan Chun at Four Seasons Hotel Singapore is again hoisting out an entire selection of mooncakes – from perennial traditional favourites to more exotic snow skin varieties – to celebrate, pardon the pun, the season.
You’re looking at a set of four baked or eight snow skin mooncakes exquisitely presented in an elegant two-tiered chest, available in limited colours of chilli red or forest green. Baked pastry flavours run from signature classic multi-yolk varieties – think Silver Lotus Paste with Double Yolk and Silver Lotus Paste with Melon Seed – to a newly introduced black sesame with white lotus. For the more adventurous, the crunch-worthy Assorted Nuts with X.O. Shrimp will surprise with its savoury, spicy notes.
If you’re more into snow skin, the Almond Bird’s Nest is perfect for impressing clients or loved ones, while the Osmanthus White Peach more contemporary and is ideal for more youthful palates.
You can find out more about Jiang Nan Chun’s 2024 mooncake collection at: https://shop-fssingapore.myshopify.com/pages/mid-autumn-festival.
Shangri-La Singapore
Not to be outdone, Shangri-La Singapore is also enticing lantern-carrying Mid-Autumn revellers with its own exquisite array of mooncakes that combines timeless classics as well as more edgy creations. Like seriously edgy.
Sure you have more classic offerings such as returning favourites such as the opulent Shangri-La Mooncake Selection Gift Box that include mooncakes infused with mandarin peel that’s been aged for 50 years or the popular Mao Shan Wang Durian Snowskin Mooncakes. Or the flagship of the collection, the Shang Palace Red Date Pumpkin Seed with Bird’s Nest Mooncakes, which is a collaboration by its fine dining Chinese restaurant with Bynd Artisan that sees the pastries enclosed in a beautiful box of vegan leather.
Then there are envelope-pushing ones like plant-based mooncakes (made without the lard and eggs), but the one that takes the cake in the creative front has to be the Origin Bar Mid-Autumn Gift Set, serving up contemporary cocktail-inspired flavours like strawberry and citrus and caramel and coffee, in a futuristic looking box that even comes with a hip flask filled with its Voyager Negroni cocktail from its latest INFINITY cocktail menu.
You can find out more about Shangri-La Singapore’s 2024 mooncake collection here.
Conrad Singapore Orchard
Over at newly refurbished Conrad Singapore Orchard, Michelin-starred Summer Palace pays homage to tradition in full floral glory with its ‘Reunion in Bloom’ mooncake collection.
It’s hard to go wrong with Summer Palace’s signature baked classics like Parma Ham and Pork Floss with Assorted Nuts or the White Lotus Paste with Double Yolk and Melon Seeds. If you prefer your snow skin types, there are popular favourites like Black Sesame Paste and Mao Shan Wang Durian, as well as newer creations such as Lychee Oolong Chocolate, Almond Chocolate with Pear Cognac, Red Date Tea with Aged Mandarin Peels, and Lemon Red Tea, which draw inspiration from the restaurant’s impressive tea selection.
We love that these mooncakes come in a floral-decked box shaped like an antique Chinese cabinet.
You can find out more about Conrad Singapore Orchard’s 2024 mooncake collection here.
InterContinental Singapore
And finally we have InterContinental Singapore, whose Michelin-recommended Cantonese restaurant Man Fu Yuan are also celebrating flower power with signature snow skin mooncakes – each enrobing a chocolate truffle heart – inspired by flower blossoms and botany. These soft rose shaped pastries comes in flavours like Golden Peach and Pumpkin Seed with Lychee Chocolate Truffle, Mangosteen and Flax Seeds with Pomegranate Chocolate Truffle, the bizarre-sounding Jackfruit and Quinoa with Lemon Chocolate Truffle, Coconut and Black Sesame Seeds with Passionfruit Chocolate Truffle.
But if these sound too iconoclast for you, there are conventional baked mooncakes from Man Fu Yuan as well – and are also low sugar for those who are watching their sugar intake – with flavours such as classics like Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk, Low Sugar Red Lotus Seed with Double Yolk, or the crunchy Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Macadamia Nuts and Pumpkin Seed.
You can find out more about InterContinental Singapore’s 2024 mooncake collection here.
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