Mid-Autumn Festival 2023: Must-try mooncakes for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival

Rejoice with loved ones this September as you savour Grand Hyatt Hong Kong’s mooncake collection. Apart from classic fillings like white lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk, as well as creamy egg custard, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong’s executive Chinese chef Chan Hon-cheong has also crafted three all-new flavours for the hotel’s One Harbour Road mooncake collection – egg custard with crystallised ginger, mango and coconut, as well as red date with dried tangerine peel and osmanthus. Additionally, customers can purchase the hotel’s grand hamper, which features a box of white lotus seed paste mooncakes along with other goodies like a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Yellow Label Brut NV Champagne, One Harbour Road’s housemade X.O sauce, dried seafood, and plenty more. 

Where to buy: grandhyatthk.eshop.buys.hk
Price: $355.3-$2879.8

This year, Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong leaves guests spoilt for choice with their series of mooncake gift sets. Similar to last year, the hotel presents mini egg custard mooncakes in their Luna Serenity gift box, decorated with motifs such as jade rabbits, lanterns, and lotus flowers. The hotel is also partnering with M+ to present a collection inspired by Madame Song Huai-kuei, a legend in the Chinese arts, music, and fashion. The collaborative lava egg custard mooncakes are flavoured with kumquat, and packaged in intricately designed boxes with cardboard pop-ups that depict the tale of how the Mid-Autumn Festival came to be. 

Tin Lung Heen, the hotel’s two Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant, also presents a limited-edition collection of mini egg custard mooncakes paired alongside premium Nannuo ripe pu’erh tea. Finally, the hotel is returning with their coveted egg custard mooncakes infused with premium bird’s nest as an exclusive treat during the autumnal holiday; and will be limited to 200 boxes only.

Where to buy: ritzcarltonhkshop.com
Price: $388-$6,888

This autumn, The Fullerton Ocean Park Hong Kong presents customers with a large range of delightful products to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. The hotel’s eshop offers products that span from mooncake boxes with assorted flavours like custard, red bean paste with dried citrus peel, and pandan lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk; luxurious hampers chock-full with baked goods, dried seafood, tea, and Champagne; and even mooncakes sold by the piece for those who want to indulge in holiday treat all to themselves. 

Where to buy: hkshop.fullertonhotels.com
Price: $158-$3,188

Like their Mid-Autumn offerings from previous years, The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong presents their festive treats in environmentally friendly packaging that’s functional yet aesthetically pleasing. This year, the hotel packs their mini custard mooncakes in an eco-friendly double decker bento box made from corn-fibre materials; held together by a yellow wrapper band. The box is also microwave-safe and can be used to store meals on-the-go. Alternatively, guests who return all components of the bento boxes to the hotel by the end of October will receive a complimentary glass of sommelier selected Champagne, red, or white wine at Amber, Somm, and MO Bar.

Where to buy: landmark.mandarinorientalshop.com
Price: $458

This Mid-Autumn Festival, The Langham and its three Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant T’ang Court will present guests with two classic mooncake varieties. Those who enjoy the good ol’ classics will delight in the hotel’s version of white lotus seed paste mooncake with double egg yolks. Alternatively, The Langham’s mini egg custard mooncake will provide a rich creaminess with each bite.

Where to buy: buys.hk
Price: $392-$422

Island Shangri-La, Kowloon Shangri-La, and Kerry Hotel have each created a range of luxurious mooncakes to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Highlights from the hotel group include Summer Palace’s red bean paste mooncakes with rare 80-year dried tangerine peel and the all-new coffee and chocolate molten lava custard duo; Shang Palace’s signature mooncake quartet with flavours such as egg custard or white lotus seed paste with egg yolks; as well as Hung Tong’s mini custard mooncake trio with fillings like coffee lava, manuka honey, and pomelo pineapple.

Additionally, all three hotels have teamed up to create a signature mooncake set, which has three boxes of 50-year aged mandarin peel and red bean paste mooncakes with delightful fillings like rose, yuzu, and osmanthus. Members of Shangri-La Circle can enjoy up to 20 percent savings on any festive purchases from all three hotels from now until September 27 using the promo code MASLC23.

Where to buy: boutique.shangri-la.com
Price: $388-$9,999

Nina Hospitality’s flagship Chinese restaurant Rú is offering three types of mooncake gift boxes to mark the upcoming occasion. Take your pick from flavours such as premium white lotus seed paste with salted egg yolks, velvety egg custard with a lava centre, or red bean paste paired with slivers of tangy mandarin peel.

Where to buy: ninaboutique.com
Price: $258-$1,789.20

Cantonese restaurant group Lei Garden and Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker have joined forces to create a premium mooncake gift set, which features the restaurant’s newly launched mini lava spirulina lotus seed paste mooncakes, along with a 200ml bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label. The subtle sweetness of spirulina lotus seed paste, matched with a lush lava egg yolk centre, will pair beautifully against the smooth, smoking aroma of whisky.

Where to buy: All of Lei Garden’s locations across Hong Kong
Price: $688

The Mira’s contemporary Cantonese fine dining restaurant, Cuisine Cuisine, celebrates the autumnal holiday with their new collection of mooncakes. Stay true to tradition by enjoying Cuisine Cuisine’s smooth white lotus seed puree mooncakes paired against double salted egg yolks, or relish in the restaurant’s take on silky egg custard mini mooncakes embossed with a crescent moon as a nod to the traditional Chinese festival. 

Where to buy: mira-eshop.com
Price: $338-$368

One Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant Duddell’s greets the Mid-Autumn Festival with their annual mooncake gift box and hamper series. Like previous years, Duddell’s will be offering their signature lava cream egg custard mooncakes in three different gift boxes – a signature gift box, a limited edition LED lantern gift box, and Duddell’s Mid-Autumn premium gift hamper. The restaurant’s premium gift hamper comes packed with gourmet delicacies such as braised South African five-head abalones, a tin of Royal Cristal Caviar, homemade walnut cookies, Duddell’s signature X.O sauce, seasoned cashew nuts, a bottle of R’de Ruinart Reims Champagne, 2017 Fuding white tea disks from Fook Ming Tong, as well as Duddell’s lava custard mooncakes.

Where to buy: duddellsmooncakes.com
Price: $398-$3,088

This autumn, pastry specialist Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel rolls out their Jade Rabbit Deluxe Mooncake Gift Box. Each gift box contains six pieces of hand-crafted classic custard mooncakes and Earl Grey flavoured custard mooncakes, all embossed with Dang Wen Li’s initials. The gift box’s exterior is inspired by a traditional Siheyuan courtyard home, and the box’s interior reveals the courtyard decorated with fireworks, lanterns, and little rabbits. As an additional festive touch, a LED lantern that sits in the heart of the gift box will illuminate the courtyard’s night sky when switched on.

Where to buy: dangwenli.com or Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel’s locations
Price: $498

Regal Hotels is releasing a collection of mooncakes that are neatly packaged in boxes featuring intricate motifs related to the upcoming autumnal festival, such as lotus flowers and moons. Those who prefer classic mooncake varieties can enjoy the holiday treat with traditional fillings like white lotus seed paste with egg yolks, and red bean paste with mandarin peel. Additionally, Regal Hotels has created a range of mini custard mooncakes, which will be available in three flavours – egg custard, creamy custard, and Earl Grey.

Where to buy: eshop.regalhotel.com
Price: $308-$968

If you want to try something different than Cantonese-style mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hong Kong Cuisine 1983 has released a gift box that features Suzhou-style mooncakes. The restaurant’s culinary team have created six different mooncake flavours that encompass both Suzhou and Cantonese mooncake cultures. Customers can dig into classic mooncake flavours like lotus seed paste, red bean paste, premium mixed nuts and Yunnan ham with mixed nuts; or try out contemporary flavour combinations like sweet potato paste with salted egg yolk, and red bean paste with nuts.

Where to buy: Contact +852 2893 3788 to place orders
Price: $488

This Mid-Autumn Festival, Ān Soy and its chef-proprietor Vicky Lau, joins forces with vegetarian food company Esca to create their first-ever limited edition pastry gift box. Each box contains three pieces of Ān’s black sesame lava mooncakes, and three pieces of Esca’s osmanthus salted egg soy milk financiers. As a nod to the philosophy of sustainability that both brands adhere to, the collaborative mooncakes are packaged in an eco-friendly wooden box.

Where to buy: datebytate.com
Price: $498

Eaton HK’s Cantonese restaurant, Yat Tung Heen, has released their collection of mooncakes that are packaged neatly in environmentally-friendly gift boxes. If you’re looking to go for something simple, the restaurant is rolling out with a mini lava egg custard gift set, which holds six custard-filled mooncakes. But if you want a variety of choices, Yat Tung Heen also presents the deluxe assortment gift set, which holds two mini lava custard mooncakes, two mini lava egg custard mooncakes with white lotus seed paste, and two mini red bean paste mooncakes with mandarin peel. 

Where to buy: yattungheengifts.com
Price: $398

The Peninsula Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred restaurant, Spring Moon, has been crafting mooncakes for nearly 40 years. In addition to offering their signature mini egg custard mooncakes, the Chinese restaurant is also creating sesame paste mochi mooncakes for a modern spin on the festive treat. Spring Moon is also presenting a Mid-Autumn deluxe gourmet hamper. This exquisite package comes with a box of mini egg custard mooncakes, 30-head Middle Eastern dried abalone, 18-head fish maw, Hokkaido conpoy, shiitake mushrooms, caramelised sesame walnuts, Yunnan aged pu’er tea, and the restaurant’s renowned XO chilli sauce.

Where to buy: eshopphk.peninsula.com
Price: $638-$3888

This year, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong is rolling out a wide range of mooncakes for Hongkongers to purchase. First, the hotel offers a gift box which consists of two varieties of mooncake: white lotus seed mooncakes with salted egg yolks and mini egg custard mooncakes. Additionally, the gift box includes tea bags from Teacha and a complimentary tote bag. If you prefer a reinterpretation of classic mooncakes, executive Chinese chef Chan Yan-tak and team behind the hotel’s Michelin-starred restaurant, Lung King Heen, will be offering mooncakes with flavours such as white lotus seed paste with Wuyi rare orchids, preserved eggs and ginger, cream custard with toasted pine nuts, as well as white lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk and black truffle. If you’d like to savour all four of Lung King Heen’s creations, they can be enjoyed in the assorted signature mooncake box along with a complimentary vintage 2008 pu’erh tea cake.

Where to buy: shopfourseasonshk.com
Price: $568-$13,680

Shanghainese restaurant The Merchants celebrates their first Mid-Autumn Festival by introducing a small selection of limited-edition mooncake gift boxes full of traditional Suzhou-style mooncakes. Unlike Cantonese mooncakes, the Suzhou variant of the festive treat has a multi-layered and flaky exterior. If you’d like to try out these flaky mooncakes, The Merchants is selling a signature mooncake box which provides four Suzhou-style sweet treats in four different flavours: red bean paste, red date, five-kernel and black sesame powder, and classic white lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk. 

Where to buy: Alfred's
Price: $480

Conrad Hong Kong’s mooncake gift boxes this year are offering options of mini creamed egg yolk mooncakes and white lotus seed paste mooncakes with egg yolks. Those who want variety in a box can opt for the hotel’s grand assorted mooncake gift box containing five mooncake flavours which includes red bean paste, white lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk, yellow lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk, mung bean paste with salted egg yolk, as well as a low-sugar version of the white lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk.

Where to buy: eshop.conraddining.com
Price: $397.8- $6,888

Celebrate the autumnal festival by sinking your teeth into Man Ho Chinese Restaurant’s selection of mooncakes. While Man Ho provides conventional mooncake options such as white lotus seed paste with ginger and double egg yolks, customers can also try their mini mooncake offering with fillings like egg custard, red dates with roses, and dried tangerine peel with red bean. If you’re really looking to impress your loved ones this Mid-Autumn Festival, Man Ho’s eight-inch royal supreme mooncakes with white lotus seed paste, ginger and eight egg yolks are a perfect treat to share between six to ten people during the holiday. 

Where to buy: jwmarriotthkoffers.com
Price: $488-$3,888

Rosewood Hong Kong’s ‘The Witty Moon’ mooncake collection pays homage to time-honoured recipes. Created by The Legacy House’s Chinese executive chef Li Chi-wai, the hotel presents a variety of mooncakes in various boxes composed of flavours like traditional white lotus seed paste with double egg yolks, traditional yellow lotus seed paste with olive seeds and double egg yolks, as well as a medley of creative flavours like jasmine tea-infused egg custard, lapsang souchong lotus seed paste, and red bean paste with mandarin peel. Additionally, The Legacy House offers its own signature box of mini egg custard mooncakes.

To commemorate Hong Kong Palace Museum’s first anniversary, Rosewood Hong Kong is offering a special mooncake gift box featuring Chinese art and culture. The limited-edition mooncake gift box was created by local artist Victor Wong and art director Stanley Wong along with AI Gemini, the world’s first artificial intelligence ink printer, to craft an eco-friendly box that holds a selection of Rosewood’s mooncakes. 

Where to buy: rosewoodhkshop.com
Price: $498- $3,588

Indulge in traditional flavours crafted by The St. Regis Hong Kong’s executive Chinese chef Hung Chi-kwong. Michelin-starred Rùn’s festive creations offer three mooncake varieties which include silk-smooth white lotus seed paste with double egg yolks, red bean paste with mandarin peels, and assorted nuts like pistachios, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, and dried raisins tossed in caramel. All of Rùn’s mooncakes are packaged in an exquisite golden gift box decorated in  traditional paper cuttings, which will make for a gorgeous gifting option during the autumnal festival.

Where to buy: stregishkshop.com
Price: $432-$508

Regent Hong Kong marks their first Mid-Autumn festival since their return to Victoria Harbour by offering their guests a range of mooncakes from their F&B venues. Choose from their selection of mini mooncakes featuring four distinctive flavours, white lotus seed paste with egg yolk, red bean paste with mandarin peel, green tea custard, and Earl Grey infused custard – all of which are made with premium ingredients and meticulously crafted. Lai Ching Heen, the hotel’s Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant, is also presenting a luxurious collection of mini egg custard mooncakes combined with edible gold leaf, and are encased in a bespoke gift box that resembles a jewellery chest. 

Where to buy: hongkong.regenthotels.com
Price: $428-$688