5 best Macau mooncake gift boxes you cannot miss this festive season

1. Grand Hyatt Macau

The moon is the brightest during the Mid-Autumn festival. The family gathering under the full moon is made more starry with this exclusive mooncake gift box. Grand Hyatt Macau is renowned for its pastry offerings and this year’s mooncake gift box will not let you down.

The auspicious motifs on the box surface are embellished with luster beads, lightened up with surrounding LED lights. The innovation does not stop on the outside. The cakes come in three different flavors of chocolate fondant, salted egg custard and taro with lotus paste.

2. Ritz-Carlton Macau

The symbol of highest level of craftsmanship and culinary excellence, Cantonese restaurant Lai Heen at The Ritz-Carlton, Macau, honours tradition with a modern twist, which is also reflected in their mooncake gift offering.

The Autumn Moon Treasure Box includes two flavours - mini egg custard mooncake and mini purple sweet potato mooncake with chestnut and each mooncake is delicately hand made and individually packaged in an elegantly painted chest.

3. Mandarin Oriental, Macau

Featuring time-honoured traditional homemade flavours inside the box, with graphics taken from a 19th-century painting of Macau’s historic A-Ma Temple by French painter Auguste Borget, Mandarin Oriental Macau’s mooncake gift box is truly a piece of artwork.

4. JW Marriott Hotel Macau

Who said packaging is creating waste? JW Marriott Hotel Macau takes the art of packaging to the green level.

The Mid-Autumn Delights Collection by Man Ho Chinese Restaurant features six mooncakes in six different flavours - white lotus paste with bird’s nest, supreme custard, red lotus paste with egg yolk, white lotus paste with egg yolk, green tea with red bean paste and preserved ham and assorted nuts, and it goes into an elegantly designed red leather bag which also fits as a wine holder.

5. Galaxy Macau

Size matters when it comes to mooncake. If you are a bit fed up with the greasy taste, try Galaxy Macau’s premium mooncake package that comes with the classic flavour of white lotus seed puree with double salted egg yolk and downsized mini egg custard mooncakes made with the highest quality ingredients.