As the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching on this coming September 13th, it is the time to look for some unique and delicious mooncakes in Singapore. In this year, there are wide lineup of new and exciting mooncakes flavours offered in the most exquisite gift sets.
Be prepared to have your mind ‘fly to the moon’, as there are unexpected innovative mooncake flavours introduced. From traditional classic to unique (strange???) flavours, these mooncakes will never disappoint your tastebuds.
Need some recommendations? Below are some of the best mooncakes recommended by SGMYTRIPS that you should try for this coming Mid Autumn Festival.
Singapore’s Unique Mooncakes For Mid Autumn Festive Celebrations
- Goodwood Park
- Bakerzin
- Janice Wong
- Peony Jade
- The Capitol Kempinski
- InterContinental Singapore
- Old Seng Choong
- Shangri-La Hotel
- Mandarin Oriental
- Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel
- Home’s Favourite
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Goodwood Park
Feeling excited on what mooncake that Goodwood Park Hotel has in store this year?
Well, Goodwood Park Hotel is going on a fruity route in their mooncake recipe. This year, a new and special flavoured mooncake, the Kiwi Dragonfruit Manuka Honey Snowskin Mooncake is introduced. It is a combination of pureed kiwis with fresh chunks of red dragon fruits, infused with aromatic herbaceous Manuka honey for an additional tangy flavour. This mooncake has a light pink coloured snow skin specially dressed with gold flakes too.
Go for Goodwood Park’s Snowskin Combo Box if you think that one flavour is not enough to satisfy you. This mooncake gift box of theirs is featured with four different flavours – Mango and Pomelo, Cempedak, D24 Durian and the new Kiwi Dragon Fruit Manuka Honey. You can’t go wrong with this collection as these mooncakes are Goodwood Park Hotel’s famed mooncakes.
Additional Information
Location: 22 Scotts Road, SIngapore 228221
Contact: +65 6737 7411
Operating Hours: Daily, 9:00am to 9:00pm|
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Bakerzin
Bakerzin might catch your attention with their Boba Love Collection in this 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival. This mooncake collection of theirs consist of four different types of mooncakes flavours, which are the Kanten Matcha Red Bean Pomelo Snowskin Mooncake, Kanten Passion fruit Mango Grains Snowskin Mooncake, Pearl Yuan Yang Snowskin Mooncake and Pearl Latte Snowskin Mooncake.
Both Pearl Yuan Yang Snowskin Mooncake and Pearl Latte Snowskin Mooncake.of Bakerzin taste aromatically bitter-sweet. These mooncakes fillings are made from Bakerzin’s in-house blend of Arabica Beans and tea leaves. Also, there are chewy white boba bits embedded in the mooncake fillings too, offering an additional texture element.
Bakerzin Mooncakes would be only available upon online ordering or via mooncake booths around Singapore. Trendy, sweet and savory, Bakerzin got it covered.
Additional Information
Contact: +64 558 885
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bakerzin/
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Janice Wong
Janice Wong is a Singaporean pastry chef recognized internationally who has high passion in creating innovative pastry menu.
Her affinity with Japan culture has been a long standing relationship since her early childhood age. This year, she is bringing Japan to your doorsteps. More than just textures and colours, this pastry chef is excited to showcase 9 signature snow-skin mooncakes with different flavour which creatively represent 9 unique prefectures of Japan. Also, she even personally travelled to Japan to outsource for the most finest and highest quality ingredients to create these mooncakes.
This limited version of mooncake box set is featured with one-of-a-kind flavour mooncakes.
9 Flavours of Mooncakes in each box set:
- Hokkaido Kinako (roasted soy flour)
- Kochi Yuzu
- Chiba Peanuts
- Mie Azuki (red bean)
- Shizuoka Matcha
- Tokushima Sweet Potato
- Wakayama Ume (Asian plum)
- Kyoto Hojicha (roasted Japanese green tea)
- Kumamoto Chestnut.
Pre-order of mooncakes are available on Janice Wong Singapore’s official website ( https://www.janicewong.com.sg)
Additional Information
National Museum Singapore Outlet
Location: 93 Stamford Road, 01-06, Singapore 178897
Operating Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00am to 6:00pm
Closed on every Monday
Paragon Outlet
Location: 290 Orchard Road, B1-K28, Singapore 238859
Operating Hours: Daily, 10:00am to 9:30pm
2am:dessertbar Outlet
Location: 21a Lorong Liput, Singapore 277733
Operating Hours:
Tuesday to Friday, 3:00pm to 2:00am
Saturday and Sunday, 2:00pm to 2:00am
Raffles City Shopping Center
Location: 252 North Bridge Road, B1-48, Singapore 179103
Operating Hours: Daily, 10:00am to 10:00pm
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Peony Jade
Peony Jade is well-known for their unexpected unusual mooncakes that are often over the top in design. But we cannot decline that the mooncakes of theirs are always full of exploding flavours despite the special appearance. There are wide varieties of mooncakes offered by Peony Jade to be chosen from, most notably for their ‘Heavenly Flavours selection’.
One of the ‘Heavenly Flavours selection’ mooncake of Peony Jade would be the Snow Skin Selections, which are widely known for their fruity flavour combinations. For example, the Mini Berrylicious Mooncakes which is made of fresh blackberries and chia seeds, with rich creamy coconut centre as filling. To your surprise, Peony Jade even introduced the Black Gold Mao Sang Wang Durian Mooncake made with 100% pure premium Pahang Mao Shan Wang. Handcrafted by the team of Michelin Plate pastry chefs of theirs, these mooncakes are wonderful melange of tangy fruit flavours with traditional mooncake concept.
For the Heavenly Flavours Baked Selection, you might ever heard of Peony Jade’s award winning signature Flaky Teowchew ‘Orh Ni’ (yam paste) Mooncake, with double yolk and buttery flaky crust. More indulgent baked mooncakes of theirs do include the Choc-A-Rock, a molten lava mooncake and Macadamia Nut and Double Egg Yolk Mooncake.
If cuteness could kill, it is a must for you to have a try on Peony Jade’s Mademoiselle PIGGY. This cute looking mooncake is made with sweet potato and chestnut molten lava in buttery, flaky Teowchew pastry. A one that you shouldn’t miss this year.
Additional Information
Clarke Quay Outlet
Location: 3 River Valley Rd, Level 2, Singapore 179020
Official Website: https://peonyjade.com/
Operating Hours: Daily, 11:00am to 2:30pm and 6:00pm to 10:30pm
Keppel Outlet
Location: 10 Bukit Chermin Rd, M Level, 109918
Operating Hours:
Weekdays, 11:00am to 2:30pm and 6:00pm to 10:30pm
Weekends and Public Holidays, 10:30am to 2:30pm and 6:00pm to 11pm
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The Capitol Kempinski
For the first time ever, The Capitol Kempinski is introducing mooncakes crafted by a 3 Michelin Star Chef, Demo Chef Alvin Leung. His creative mooncakes innovations are debut combination of both classic and avant-garde flavours.
Introduce you The Capitol Kempinski’s Golden Corn and Caramel Mixed Nuts mooncake. This mooncake flavour is inspired from common movie snacks such as kacang putih and caramel popcorn which are usually sold at Capitol Theatre back in the 1930s. The latter is filled with sweet lotus seed paste imbued with flavour and scent of sweet corn, which taste quite similarly to popcorn.
Looking for a gift set? Then The Capitol Kempinski’s Mini Theatre Combo Set would be a great choice. This colourful package is a nod to the Capitol Theatre after which The Capitol Kempinski Hotel is named. Inside of the gift box consist of 4 pieces of this newly introduced Caramel Mixed Nuts mooncakes and 4 Mini Golden Corn mooncakes. A perfect feast for the tummy.
Additional Information
Location: 15 Stamford Road, 178906 Singapore
Contact: +65 6368 8888
Official Website: https://www.kempinski.com/en/singapore/the-capitol-singapore/
Operating Hours: Daily, 9:00am to 5:00pm
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InterContinental Singapore
If you are a snowskin and baked mooncake lover, then you will surely be pleased with InterContinental Singapore’s mooncake. Every gift box of InterContinental Singapore cost either $138 or $188, depending on what you have choose. What’s even better is that these mooncake gift box automatically comes with a set of Travel Tea Set that consist of a brewing teapot, a tea pitcher and three teacups.
This year, InterContinental Singapore proudly present their Ronnefeldt tea-infused Mooncakes. The four new tea-infused snowskin mooncakes are shaped in the form of Man Yuan’s iconic rose-shape, with soothing pastel colors that looks so dreamy. Each of the gift set consist of four of these treats.
Flavours included are:
- Irish Whiskey Cream Assam Tea with Milk Chocolate Truffle
- Morgentau Tea with Hazelnut Chocolate Pearls
- Peppermint Tea with Chia Seeds and Lemon Hibiscus Jelly Truffle
- Soft Peach Tea with Pumpkin Seeds and Ginger Passion fruit Jelly Truffle
Aside from these, there are also common assortment of traditional baked mooncakes available in their store if you are looking for something usual. Healthier version of mooncakes are offered in less sugar can be obtained here too, for example the Low Sugar White Lotus Paste and macadamia Nuts.
Additional Information
Location: 80 Middle Rd, Singapore 188966
Contact: +68251131
Operating Hours: 9:00am to 9:00pm
Official Website: https://singapore.intercontinental.com/festive/shop/
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Old Seng Choong
Whenever talking about mooncakes, Old Seng Choong is always on the list. Old Seng Choong is a heritage mooncake brand available in Singapore which introduced wide varieties of delicious mooncake and flavoured cookies throughout the years. Their cookies and mooncakes not only make prefect food souvenirs, but also an innovative way to tell the story of Singapore.
Only in this 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival, Old Seng Choong introduce two new creative mooncakes in their store: Pandan with Gula Melaka and Yam with Pumpkin. Both of these mooncakes are available in mini size for easy consuming. The Pandan with Gula Melaka mooncake has sweet lotus paste wrapped in a jade green snow skin. Grated coconut is also added to this mooncake’s filling in order to provide an additional chewy and crunchy texture too.
On the other hand, the Yam with Pumpkin Mooncake shared the similar concept as a traditional Teochew Mooncake. It is filled with mashed Penang sourced savory yam puree permeated with aromatic shallot oil and silky smooth pumpkin.
Additional Information
Location: 171 Kampong Ampat, #05-04 KA Foodlink, Singapore 368330
Contact: +65 6282 0220
Operating Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 6:00pm Saturday and Sunday, 9:00am to 5:00pm
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Shangri-La Hotel
Shangri-La Hotel launches two different types of new mooncake flavours in this 2019 year, featuring kaya (coconut jam) and yuzu as main ingredients. The kaya-flavoured mooncake of Shangri-La Hotel is actually a mini snow skin mooncake filled with in-house creamy coconut spread. Made with fresh coconut, gula Melaka and eggs, the filling of this Kaya mooncake taste sweet, with silky smooth texture. Also, assorted toasted nuts are added into this mooncake filling to offer an additional crunchy and nutty flavour in every bite too.
Go for Shangri-La Hotel’s Yuzu with Sake Mooncake if you prefer a zingier flavour. Instead of creamy, sweet kaya filling, you will find a refreshing mix of tart yuzu zest and sweet sake embedded in the mooncake’s white chocolate shell. Toasted nuts are still present in this mooncake, but the mooncake’s sweetness level had been taken down a notch when compared with the Kaya Mooncake.
As luxurious as ever, Shangri-La Hotel’s mooncake gift set comes in an elegant red case that is really suitable for festival gifting. Shangri-La Hotel’s mooncakes can be ordered online and collected in the hotel’s lobby and Ngee Ann City during this month of Mid-Autumn.
Additional Information
Location: 22 Orange Grove Rd, Singapore 258350
Contact: +6213 4398, +6213 4473
Operating Hours: (From 9th July to 13th September 2019) 10:00am to 9:00pm
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Mandarin Oriental
Ever imagine to transform some refreshing cocktail into decadent snow skin mooncakes? No? Then Mandarin Oriental will prove it to you.
For this coming Mid-Autumn, Mandarin Oriental successfully redefined MO Bar’s stunning colourful cocktail named ‘Mother of Dragons’ as a novelty mooncake at Cherry Garden. By using a special Rotary Evaporator, concentrated ‘Mother of Dragons’ essence is extracted, then used to offer an aromatic fragrance to Mandarin Oriental’s new flavoured mooncake. The silky mooncake filling is adorned with bits of candied red dragon fruits, which make each bite of the mooncake akin to sippings of well-balanced fruity cocktail.
Aside from that, explore the rest of Mandarin oriental’s snow skin mooncake series such as the signature Lychee martini with Chocolate Truffle flavour, Custard Paste with Rose Petals and Chestnuts, and Osmanthus with Walnut that are highly recommended by the customers.
Additional Information
Location: 5 Raffles Ave, Singapore 039797
Contact: +65 6338 0066
Official Website: https://www.mandarinoriental.com/singapore/marina-bay/luxury-hotel/contact-information
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Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel
Undeniably, Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel’s mooncakes would be on the list whenever talking about luxury type of mooncake. With the professional help from the Executive Chinese Chef Brian Wong and his team, wide varieties of meticulous handcrafted mooncakes had been bejewelled among the foodies for every Mid-Autumn Festival these years.
Get ready for their new and unique flavoured mooncakes which showcase a perfect marriage of Western luxury and Chinese traditions. Some hot selling mooncakes of theirs in this year such as Golden Date Baked Mooncake with Pistachio, Jambon de Bayonne ad Sesame with Salted Egg received lots of repurchase intentions from the customers.
Well, these wonderful delicacies are also offered in an elegant two-tier Chinese golden cabinet, making a wonderful gift or collection. This set is accompanied with a 375ml bottle of Chateau Rieussec Cru Classe Sauternes (France 2015), as an occasion wine pairing.
Additional Information
Location: 320 Orchard Road, Singapore 238865
Contact: +6735 5800
Facebook/Official Website: http://www.singaporemarriott.com/mooncakes/
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Home’s Favourite
Add some Japanese feeling to your Mid-Autumn celebration this year with Home’s Favourite newly developed Snow Skin Cherry Blossom with Raspberries Hokkaido Milk Mooncake. Prepared with imported fresh Sakura cherries, raspberries and creamy Hokkaido milk, this cute pastel pink mooncake will offers a blast of milky and sweet, fruity flavour in your taste buds.
Not forgot to mention Home’s Favourite top-grade Mao Shan Wang and Red Prawn Durian Mooncakes which are always the best sellers every year. This mooncake is relatively sticky, creamy and has a bittersweet taste. Every bite of this mooncake is packed with all the goodness of real Mao Shan Wang and Red Prawn Durian filling enhanced in a gold-dusted black charcoal snowskin.
Additional Information
Location: 15 Jalan Tepong #04-09, Jurong Food Hub S(619336)
Contact: +65 6272 2028
Operating Hours: Monday to Saturday, 9:30am to 5:00pm
Official Website: http://www.homesfavourite.com/