New mooncake fillings for 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival: CBD and chocolate, caviar, custard – there’s even some for dogs

Chilli chocolate mochi, coffee, horsemeat (that one’s for dogs) – inventive bakers in Hong Kong have created novel mooncake flavours for Mid-Autumn Festival

CBD cafe Found has infused chocolate mooncakes with 50mg of cannabidiol, while mooncakes for dogs can be bought at The Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour Hong Kong

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We round up the most notable mooncake offerings for the 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival around Hong Kong, including vegan-friendly custard mooncakes from Green Common.

Published: 2:45pm, 17 Sep 2021

Every year, Chinese chefs in Hong Kong come up with creative new mooncake flavours. We round up the most notable offerings for the 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival.

In 2020, the Royal Caviar Club came up with an intriguing savoury mooncake with shaved truffle, lobster meat and caviar. This year, their offering is simpler and more delicious – a mochi-style mooncake containing six grams (0.2 ounces) of Imperial Ossetra caviar, and a filling of either cream cheese or Madagascan vanilla. A six-piece set, with three of each flavour, is priced at HK$680 (US$87).

Roast goose restaurant Yung Kee in Central on Hong Kong Island has lotus seed paste mooncakes, but this year introduces two new flavours: mixed nuts with Chinese ham, and green bean paste with double yolks. Get one of each, packaged together, for HK$398.

Chilli Fagara, a Sichuan restaurant also in Central, is spicing things up with chilli chocolate mochi mooncakes at HK$98 for two – but they are only available for dine-in customers. Order these and you will get chilli-spiked plain chocolate ice cream, with a layer of crunchy taro, enveloped in a soft mochi casing.

The Royal Caviar Club is offering a mochi-style mooncake containing six grams of Imperial Ossetra caviar.

Roast goose restaurant Yung Kee is selling mooncakes with two new flavours: mixed nuts with Chinese ham, and green bean paste with double yolks.

Jia Group’s Between, in Wan Chai, has a gift set containing a house blend of coffee beans – which are from Honduras and Ethiopia and have tasting notes of plain chocolate, cherry and muscovado – and low-sugar coffee mooncakes for HK$298.