This year, Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on September 15th here in Singapore. The festival is celebrated in many East Asian communities. In China, it is a reunion time for families, almost like Thanksgiving. While in Vietnam, it is more like children’s day.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival. It traditionally falls on the 15th day of the eighth months of the Chinese lunar calendar. This festival is the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year. It is celebrated by the Chinese community here in Singapore by gathering for dinner and lighting paper lanterns.
One of the delicacies enjoyed on this special festival is mooncakes. Every year, hotels in Singapore will launch their mooncake flavours up for grabs. There are several different variations of this treat. Let’s take a look at some of the best mooncakes you can find here in Singapore.
JW Marriott Singapore South Beach
JW Marriott offers some of the best mooncakes you could purchase. Get their Baked Mooncake Medley (from $83.00) and have a taste of each traditional baked mooncakes they offer.
Some flavours include their Blueberry Paste with Chia Seeds (from $88.00), Double Yolk Lotus Paste (from $88.00), Single Yolk Lychee Lotus Paste (from $82.00) and Premium Mixed Nuts (from $88.00). You can also get these flavours on their own, in a box of four mooncakes.
Apart from their traditional mooncakes, JW Marriott also offers Mini Snowskin Mooncakes. Get a box of their Assorted Mini Snowkin Mooncakes (from $76.00) that comes with 8 pieces per box, 2 of each flavour. If you love durian, have a taste of their Premium Snowskin Mao Shan Wang (from $93.00).
Head over to JW Marriott website and pre-order your mooncakes now!
Goodwood Park Hotel
For this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Goodwood Park Hotel will be introducing a series of uniquely flavoured mooncakes. For those who prefer something more old school, stick to the classic Baked Combo Mooncakes ($76.80) that comes with one piece each of White Lotus Seed Paste with Melon Seeds (from $43.00), White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk (from $48.00) and Assorted Nuts with Ham (from $56.00).
Try their snowskin selection mooncakes such as Tropicana (from $42.00), Blue Pea Flower with White Lotus Seed Paste and Melon Seeds (from $50.00) and Premium Duo: Black Thorn and Mao Shan Wang Durian (from $70.00). You can also get their Snowskin Combo, consisting of one of each flavour – Tropicana, Mango with Pomelo, Cempedak, D24 Durian ($72.00).
What are you waiting for? Head over to their website and pre-order yours now!
The Peninsula Hotel
At The Peninsula Hotel, their bestselling Mini Egg Custard Mooncakes ($83.00) is wildly popular and is a signature offering of The Peninsula. This year however, The Peninsula will be launching two new irresistible mooncake flavours, conceptualised by Michelin Star Chef Tang.
These flavours are Walnut and Fig Flavoured Egg Custard and Red and South Date Lotus Seed Paste. Both of these flavours can be found in the Star Chef Mooncake Gift Box ($118). Another new offering is the Constellation Mooncake Gift Box ($120.00), a symbol of reunion.
The gift box consists of the White Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake with Double Yolks. There will also be smaller-sized mooncakes in the flavours Mini Tie Guan Yin Flavoured Egg Custard Mooncake, Mini Breakfast Tea Flavoured Egg Custard Mooncake, and Mini Golden Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake with Yolk.
You can also get the Mini Tea Flavoured Egg Custard Mooncakes on their own ($89.00 per box). It comes with 2 pieces of each flavour. These flavours include Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Lychee Black Tea and Tie Guan Yin. Other gift sets include Premium Mooncake Gift Box ($198.00) and Silver Moon Gift Set ($108.00)
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- Takashimaya: August 5th – September 14th, 2021 (online) | August 16th – September 21st 2021 (instore)
- Tangs at VivoCity: August 2nd – September 12th, 2021 (online) | August 30th – September 21st, 2021 (instore)
Shangri-La Hotel
Another hotel offering delicious mooncakes is Shangri-La Hotel. Similar to JW Marriott and Goodwood Park Hotel, Shangri-la Hotel offers both traditional mooncakes and snowskin mooncakes. Indulge in their traditional mooncakes, 4 pieces in each box ($78.00).
Their traditional mooncake flavours include Reduced Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste (double yolk, single yolk, four yolks, plain), Mixed Nuts with Chicken Ham and Black Sesame with Taro and Melon Seeds.
Their snowskin mooncakes on the other hand comes in two flavours, 8 pieces each box ($98.00). These flavours are Kaya with Reduced Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste and Premium Mao Shan Wang Durian.
Head over to their website to place your orders now!
InterContinental Singapore
Finally, have a bite of InterContinental Singapore’s mooncakes, both traditional and snowskin. Some signature traditional mooncake flavours include White Lotus Seed with Double Yolks and Low-Sugar White Lotus Paste and Macadamia Nuts. They have also introduced new flavours such as Red Bean Tangerine Paste (double and single yolk). These mooncakes come a in box of 4 (from $68.00), which are perfect for sharing.
Apart from their traditional mooncake offerings, they have also introduced a new series of snowskin mooncakes available in their Secret Garden Box. These flavours include Earl Grey Baileys Cream Truffle, Japanese Matcha Green Tea Paste and Osmanthus Truffle, Oolong Peach and Black Sesame Truffle and Rose Flower Tea Truffle with Pistachio. You will get a box of 4 ($88.00), containing each of these flavours.
Proceed to their website and place your orders now!
Mooncakes are definitely a must have during the Mid-Autumn Festival. They are enjoyed by almost everyone so what are you waiting for? Mark your calendars and pre-order some now!
