Hong Kong’s most decadent mooncakes add opulence to Mid-Autumn Festival
InterContinental Grand Stanford, The Peninsula Hong Kong, Tycoon Tann, Dalloyau, Duddell’s and Ms B’s Cakery offer creative and unusual mooncakes
The Mid-Autumn Festival is almost here, and the range of mooncakes hitting the shelves has us feeling pretty much over the moon. Here are the top choices that will have us reaching for seconds – or thirds.
InterContinental Grand Stanford
InteContinental’s Kavalan whisky-infused mooncakes are delicious. Kavalan, the award-winning premier whisky, is known for its smooth texture and rich flavour – and is the best thing created in Taiwan since pineapple cake. The brand just won five platinum and 13 gold awards at the 2017 International Review of Spirits.
The box set from InterContinental features a trio of mooncakes, each infused with either Kavalan Classic Single Malt,Kavalan Solist ex-Bourbon Single Cask Strength Single Malt, or Kavalan Solist Amontillado Sherry Single Cask Strength. Each of them is irresistible.
The Peninsula Hong Kong
The mini egg custard mooncakes from The Peninsula’s Spring Moon restaurant are so popular that you have to order way in advance.
Three new flavours debut this year: jasmine, earl grey, and lychee. The mini jasmine- and earl grey-flavoured egg custard mooncakes promise to be light and fragrant, while the mini egg custard with lychee mooncakes offer the perfect balance of sweet and savoury.
But this year, new mooncake flavours from the Peninsula Boutqiue will be making their mark. Three new flavours debut this year: jasmine, earl grey and lychee.
The boutique also offers mooncakes in other highly unusual flavours, such as pineapple, date paste with sunflower seeds, mandarin peel – and even XO chilli sauce.