10 Unique Mooncake Flavours To Try This Mid-Autumn Festival
If you gravitate towards modern and unique mooncake flavours, these are the ones to try.
The Mid-Autumn Festival’s coming round on Sep 10 and if you’re already on the lookout for the mooncakes available this year, we’ve got a round-up of unique mooncake flavours to whet your appetite.
These little parcels packed with appealing fillings aren’t your traditional treats. Going beyond classics like lotus root paste with egg yolk and custard, hotels and bakeries alike have come up with the most delectable and novel confections to savour or gift your loved ones.
Two festive goodies come together with this baked mooncake that is filled with hand-chopped chunks of moreish bak kwa in a red lotus paste that’s just the right amount of sweet. A touch of black truffle oil adds another dimension to the sweet-meets-savoury confection, and the black and gold exterior looks pretty impressive too.
$88.80 for a box of eight, available from now till Sep 10, 2022. Visit Old Seng Choong’s website to order or at its stores at L1-72 The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, and #01-48 Clarke Quay Central.
Andaz Singapore’s Cantonese restaurant 5 On 25 has rolled out its inaugural mooncake collection. If milk tea is your choice of beverage, then you’ll want to give the Teh Gao Siew Dai Baked Mooncake a whirl. The rich silky lotus paste is punctuated with the fragrance of milk tea, with almond flakes giving it a satisfying crunch.
Other novel flavours to try include an osmanthus-perfumed mooncake infused with 5 On 25’s signature tea, and a Ruby Pandan, with red bean paste and pandan lotus paste. There’s also The Dating Longans, a red date-infused lotus paste creation with aromatic dried longan flesh.
A box of any four flavours is priced at $85 nett, and an individual flavour at $22 nett per piece. AMEX, Citibank, DBS/POSB, HSBC, OCBC, Standard Chartered and UOB cardholders are entitled to an early bird discount of 25 per cent from now till Aug 26, 2022, and a 15 per cent regular offer from Aug 27 to Sep 10, 2022.
Order online, or physically at 5 ON 25, Ngee Ann City and VivoCity.
Or if you’re more of a kopi lover, then Cat & The Fiddle’s snowskin concoction with coffee-infused lotus paste will be your cup of, well, joe. It holds a silky coffee lotus paste paired with a white chocolate truffle ball filled with dark chocolate ganache. It’s part of a Meowsketeer Trio set, which also includes Teh Peng and Bandung mooncakes.
That’s not all. The mooncakes come in a box with nostalgic illustrations of an HDB block and a kopitiam, along with a quirky and functional kopi dabao bag.
The Meowsketeer Trio set is at $68.90, available from now till Sep 10, 2022. Visit Cat & The Fiddle’s website or its stores to order.
The Dragonboat Festival may be over, but if you’re still in the mood for rice dumplings, consider this a hybrid of a Nyonya dumpling and flaky Teochew-style mooncake. Instead of the usual orh ni (yam paste) filling, you get a centre of white lotus paste and a sweet-meets-savoury meat filling.
$19.63 per mooncake, available for collection from Aug 27 to Sep 10, 2022. An advanced order of three days is required. Visit Pine Garden’s website to order.
Comvita Gourmet Honey has teamed up with dessert maven Janice Wong to launch a series of honey-flavoured treats. Pear Manuka Honey, Biscoff Manuka Honey, Lavender Multifloral Honey, and Avocado Multifloral Honey, each filled with the unique and distinct flavours of Comvita Gourmet Honey from New Zealand.
Plus: Janice Wong also has a line-up of boozy Japan-inspired mooncakes. Click here to read more.
$88 for a tin of eight snowskin mooncakes. Visit Janice Wong’s website or outlets to order.
Michelin-starred Table65 and Ocean Restaurant have teamed up to offer a Treasured Snow Skin Mooncakes set starring two sumptuous mooncakes.
From Table65’s Chef de Cuisine Dayal Kesha, you can sink your teeth into the Pearl of the Sea Snow Skin Mooncake that marries sweet velvety white chocolate ganache and a sencha and white lotus paste with briny pops of caviar.
Meanwhile, Ocean Restaurant’s local Chef de Cuisine Bernard Lim has dreamt up the Ocean Sapphire Snow Skin Mooncake that envelops Aonori dried sea lettuce, flavoured green pea paste, candied lemon, sea salt buckwheat biscuit and roasted pine nuts within an acai berry snow skin.
At $218 nett per box of four pieces, inclusive of a 750ml bottle of Perrier-Jouët Champagne. Visit Resorts World Sentosa’s website to order.
This year, Marina Bay Sands is giving the traditional baked mooncake a contemporary update. Filled with umami flavour, this savoury mooncake has lightly spiced XO dried scallops together with Wu Liang Ye, a robust Chinese liquor from Southern Sichuan that’s distilled from five types of grains.
It’s part of the Premium Edition (Modern) set, which also has a bird’s nest, truffle bak kwa, and jinhua ham mooncake.
Premium Edition (Modern) set is at $88 for a box of four mooncakes. Visit Marina Bay Sands’ website to order. Collect the mooncakes at either of the two booths located at Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 2 lobby or B2, The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands (near the Sampan Ticketing Counter) between Aug 4 to Sep 10, 2022.
New this year from Goodwood Park Hotel is the Ondeh Ondeh snow skin mooncake. Ondeh ondeh-inspired treats aren’t all that new, but Goodwood Park’s version comes with a pandan centre enveloped in choux pastry that adds texture, and uses gula melaka imported from Java.
We also like the Strawberry snow skin mooncake that’s packed with strawberry and soursop puree as well as chunks of strawberry — enjoy this one frozen for a sorbet-like treat.
The Ondeh Ondeh mooncake is at $52 nett for two pieces and $82 nett for four pieces. The Strawberry mooncake is at $48 nett for two pieces, $75 nett for four pieces. Visit Goodwood Park Hotel’s website to order.
Local distillery Brass Lion Distillery’s Butterfly Pea Gin stars in this boozy treat by Raffles Hotel Singapore that’s also melded with fresh pandan as well as the citrusy aroma of lemongrass. You can get it as a bundle that includes a limited edition of the Butterfly Pea Gin with an exclusive custom label illustrated with Raffles Hotel’s iconic
Brass Lion Distillery x Raffles Hotel Singapore Mid-Autumn Bundle is at $188, and is available for collection and delivery from now till Sep 7, 2o22. Visit Raffles Hotel’s website to order.
Best known for its roast duck, Kam’s Roast is doling out Hong Kong-style mooncakes that include one infused with – you guessed it — roast duck.
This unusual baked confection houses five different types of nuts and seeds that add lots of texture to the mildly sweet paste and is also studded with small chunks of roast duck from Kam’s Roast that packs a flavourful punch.
Other interesting mooncakes include Red Bean Orange Peel, Almond Egg Custard and Coconut Egg Yolk.
Available at $68+ for a box of six or $10.80+ per piece. Visit Kam’s Roast’s Oddle page to order or visit its outlet at #02-210 Jewel Changi Airport.
This article originally appeared on The Singapore Women's Weekly.