Luxury mooncakes to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
From lantern to LED lights, these sets have it allMid-Autumn Festival is quickly coming upon us and with it comes golden pastries known as mooncakes. Traditional mooncakes are generally filled with egg yolk and custard. Each year, they get fancier and fancier. Here’s a roundup of the ones worth your while.
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Rosewood
Rosewood has five different mooncake flavours for you to try this year. Putting a luxury flair on the traditional, it conceals double salted duck egg yolks in white lotus seed paste. Other and more unique flavours include its jasmine egg custard and red bean mandarin peel cakes.
Rosewood, available online
Fortnum & Mason
Fortnum & Mason is debuting three new flavours for the festivities and pairs them with its signature teas for an all-around experience. Taking the classic egg custard filling and infusing it with earl grey, matcha and rose pouchong, these pastries have sweet but well-balanced flavour profiles.
Fortnum & Mason, available online
The Peninsula
The Peninsula has curated a collection of specials to share as we bask in the beauty of the moon this Mid-Autumn. If you’re looking for a more complete experience, head to its new boutique café for its seasonal afternoon indulgence tea with 3D-printed dark chocolate lotus flowers filled with egg custard, mooncakes and Hokkaido soft serve. These delicate chocolates are also available to buy in flavours of dark truffle or Brazil orange truffle.
The Peninsula, The Peninsula Arcade, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2696 6969 and available online
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Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel
Inspired by the bright lights of the Big Apple, this gift box illuminates various New York icons in its clear dome. Each set is complete with six mooncakes that come in two flavours. A classic custard with a flaky pastry and an earl grey custard with hints of earl grey tea. Its sparkling LED lights will be the talk of your Mid-Autumn dinner party for years to come.
Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel, available online
Shangri-La
The Shangri-La group has stopped at nothing with its range of premium mooncakes for the season. Across its profile are assortments from snowy mooncakes with durian paste to matcha and even stuffed with a yuzu flavoured mochi. A black pastry is made from bamboo charcoal for a striking design that is painted with gold dust.
Shangri-La, available online
Mandarin Oriental
The Mandarin Oriental is catering to sweet tooths with its chocolate lava custard mooncake. Another unique flavour comes in the form of red bean with dried tangerine peel, along with the traditional golden or white lotus seed paste cakes. If you want to go all out, a range of hampers with Ruinart champagne, assorted chocolate pralines and Oolong tea are available.
Mandarin Oriental, available online
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Duddell’s
Lanterns are one of the next most important parts of celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival and the collection from Duddell’s offers you both traditions in one. Made with LED lights and glistening gold film, its lantern is a reflection of the bright moon. Along with the lantern, you’ll enjoy eight of its lava cream custard mooncakes.
Duddell’s, available online
Lady M
Lady M is famous for its delicate crepe cakes and is spreading its intricate skill to make mooncakes for the season. Complete with LED lights, its Ferris wheel gift box stashes six pastries with both a classic egg custard and a chocolate custard. The brand suggests brewing a cup of tea and sharing these delectable goodies with your loved ones.
Lady M, available in various locations across Hong Kong
