This year the ancient festival, which has its roots in both Chinese and Vietnamese cultures and is still widely observed in China, including Hong Kong, takes place on September 13.

Today I learned how to make vegan mooncakes

The family theme sees children celebrating while holding assorted dazzling lanterns and shops and hotels offer mooncakes – traditionally a dense pastry made of lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk – in ever more inventive varieties and flavours.

We’ve rounded up some of Hong Kong’s most luxurious mooncake offerings because there’s only one way to celebrate the festival – by eating a decadent mooncake or two (or three or even four).

When your mooncake options are as delightful as these, trust us: you’ll probably want to eat the whole boxful by yourself.

Spring Moon

The OG of all mini egg custard mooncakes, this is arguably Hong Kong’s most famous mooncake.

Spring Moon is a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant at The Peninsula Hong Kong, in Tsim Sha Tsui, and it has been creating its signature mini egg custard mooncakes since 1986 – so this recipe is pretty old (and that is an understatement). Each box contains eight pieces.

How to make traditional mooncakes

These are highly coveted and each person is only allowed to order up to 20 boxes. You know how people scalp concert tickets? In Hong Kong, people scalp Spring Moon mooncakes.

The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong

This year The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, in West Kowloon has teamed up with SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Hong Kong for its mooncake boxes. There are two designs – which were produced by students – available in two different sizes. Each box is filled with eight mini egg custard mooncakes.

Mooncakes get a modern spin at Tin Lung Heen

The first is called “Stardust” and celebrates families getting together to celebrate the festival. The second one, “Praise to the Moon” depicts the romantic reunion of Hou Yi and Chang’e, two estranged lovers.

Duddell’s

This year, Michelin-starred restaurant Duddell’s in Central, has teamed up with contemporary artist Marcel Dzama, who is known for his dreamy drawings and artwork.

Two options are available: first is a really cool limited edition iridescent lantern that also lights up. Eight mooncakes are cleverly hidden away in the middle section. The second is a box set, which comes in a set of six, and features work by Dzama inside.

The mooncakes are filled with a custard filling made with salted egg yolk, milk powder, coconut milk and butter.

Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong

Last year, Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong, at Pacific Place, blew us away with mooncakes filled with red bean paste and 60-year-old dried tangerine peel, also known as chen pi.

KFC to Sichuan chilli: Hong Kong’s wackiest new mooncakes

This year, the hotel is unveiling the same mooncakes – but made using 80-year-old chen pi.

Chen pi is an ingredient used in traditional Chinese cooking and traditional Chinese medicine – and the older it is, the more valuable and expensive it gets.

Naturally, this means that a box of these will set you back a fair bit – HK$1,188 (US$150) for a box of eight, to be exact.

The St. Regis Hong Kong

The St. Regis Hong Kong in Wan Chai might have opened only a few months ago, but it already has mooncakes ready to go.

The hotel offers three delicious options: white lotus seed paste with double egg yolks, mini egg custard, and mini red bean paste with tangerine peel.

Want more stories like this? Sign up here. Follow STYLE on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter