Traditionally a harvest festival celebrated in mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Vietnam, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on 29 September. And the festival has its own official snack: the mooncake! (That’s why it’s sometimes known as Mooncake Festival in Singapore.) Friends and families share these sweet pastries during gatherings. While they’re usually baked with lotus seed or sweet bean paste, many shops in Singapore also add their own creative spin with unique flavours and variations. We’ve rounded up some of the best mooncakes for you to try in Singapore in 2023, from Ding Mooncake, W Singapore – Sentosa Cove, Raffles Hotel and more!
Designer mooncake gift boxes from Ding Mooncake
For award-winning traditional and snowskin mooncakes, Ding Mooncake is our go-to. The exquisite handmade mooncakes are packaged in limited-edition designer boxes that are perfect for gifting friends and family in Singapore this Mid-Autumn Festival 2023.
This year’s snowskin mooncakes come in four delectable new flavours, each made from the finest imported ingredients. There’s Thai young coconut, Piedmont hazelnut, Kyoto hujicha and Fuerte avocado. This is in addition to Ding Bakery’s signature range, including the best-selling white lotus double yolk and traditional pandan mooncakes, as well as the Black Gold Mao Shan Wang mooncakes hand-painted with a touch of gold dust. Wow!
Ding Bakery’s mooncakes are known to sell out, so be quick!
Order yours before 14 September 2023 and save an extra 25% on top of Ding’s early bird discount of 40%! Simply select a minimum of two boxes of mooncakes and and the 25% discount will automatically be applied. Build Your Own Mooncake Bundle here.
8890 9055 | hello@dingmooncake.com
dingmooncake.com
Mooncake carrier bags from W Singapore – Sentosa Cove
Make a fashion statement this Mid-Autumn festival 2023 with W Singapore – Sentosa Cove’s Mooncakes Lunar Couture collection. Blending flavour and fashion, the handcrafted baked and snowskin mooncakes are presented in beautifully decorated gift boxes.
We’re swooning over the fashionable carrier bags ($148) in luscious red and emerald green containing baked white lotus paste mooncakes, along with an Esinti Peshtemal beach towel, a mini bottle of Moët & Chandon Champagne and a W-branded sun visor. Perfect for a beachside Mid-Autumn celebration!
W Singapore’s mooncakes are also available in boxes of four with flavours including white lotus, assorted nuts and lychee.
Order yours before 29 September and get 30% off for every order of two boxes or more.
Mooncake jewellery boxes from The Westin Singapore
If you’re a fan of Tiffany blue, you won’t want to miss this four-tier mooncake box from The Westin Singapore. Resembling a miniature vintage luggage set, each drawer reveals a baked mooncake in a variety of delicious flavours, such as white lotus paste with single yolk, white lotus paste with double yolk, yam and coconut paste with brown sugar, and pandan paste with diced salted egg yolk and crushed macadamia nuts. An assorted box of four is priced at $88.
Got a soft spot for the white lotus paste with double yolk? Representing purity, enlightenment, prosperity and fertility, a box of four is $92.
Order now for collection and delivery before 29 September.
The Westin Singapore
dailytreats.singapore@westin.com
Vanity boxes from The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore
Make this Mid-Autumn 2023 one to remember with an elegant leather-woven vanity box filled with mini snowskin mooncakes. Available in blush pink and baby blue, the elegant keepsake features velvet interiors with dual compartments, a Ritz-Carlton bag tag, a matching shoulder chain and, of course, an assortment of delectable mooncakes in a new and unexpected flavour.
Inspired by the signature ‘Kim Sisters’ cocktail served by the hotel’s Republic Bar, the Irish ‘coffeetini’ flavour is a blend of lotus paste and Irish coffee liqueur-infused dark chocolate truffle blended with a ‘lycheetini’ flavour beloved by the Summer Pavilion restaurant.
Also available are timeless classics such as green tea and durian, as well as a limited-edition scarlet tweed box containing four baked white lotus seed double yolk mooncakes.
Place your orders online here or at Colony Bakery from now until 29 September. There’s a 25% early bird discount for purchases made before 24 August.
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore
Stylish gift sets from Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant
Famed for its authentic Cantonese cuisine, this award-winning restaurant in the heart of Orchard Road has a stunning selection of mooncakes – but there’s one gift set in particular that caught our eye.
Presented in a two-tier octagonal red chest, the Premium Gift Set ($248) contains two golden black truffle baked mooncakes with dry-aged Parma ham, two pistachio and single yolk mooncakes, and a bottle of Taittinger Brut Reserve Champagne (375ml).
Alongside their perennial favourites, Wao Han Chinese Restaurant also has new rich and fruity flavours such as the baked Imperial “Long Jing” tea with walnuts ($88 for a gift set of four) and yuzu honey with peach passionfruit praline, blueberry with maple cream cheese praline, and Irish cream latte with Baileys ($86 for a set of eight snowskin mooncakes).
Pre-order yours for delivery here from 24 August to 29 September.
Early bird discount: Get 20 percent off your order before 23 August with the promo code GET20OFF, along with an additional 10 percent off when self-collecting from the hotel’s Mid-Autumn booth (no promo code required).
Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza, 320 Orchard Road
6831 4605 | wanhaochineserestaurant.com
Exquisite mooncakes from Raffles Hotel Singapore
Raffles Hotel Singapore is renowned for its incredible selection of handcrafted mooncakes, and this year’s creations are no exception. New to the collection are two new snowskin flavours: sakura and raspberry truffle, and yam and coconut rum truffle. Signature and returning snowskin favourites include champagne truffle, Bailey’s chocolate truffle, and yuzu and osmanthus truffle.
“We sampled Raffles Hotel’s selection of mooncakes and were wowed. Even though they were the soft snowskin variety, which I’m not usually a fan of, they were amazing! So many layers of flavours and textures, with the chocolate in the centre being the icing on the top, so to speak! While the signature champagne truffle snowskin mooncake was my favourite, they were all delicious.” – Editor-in-chief, Rebecca Bisset
Reserve your mooncakes online at Raffles Celebrations until 19 September.
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