7 Best Mooncakes You can Indulge in This Mid-Autumn Festival 2016

The time of that year has come out where all the mooncake manufacturers roll their sleeves up to create unique offerings. There’s also an unspoken contest on the most exquisite mooncake boxes.

Get your dollars ready, because it’s time to start shopping for mooncakes. Here are some must have mooncakes that just have to be tried.

1. Salted Egg Mooncakes from Antoinette

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This snow skin mooncake features a low sugar white lotus paste that breaks apart to unleash a lava-worthy ooze in its salted egg yolk cream.

2. XO Scallop Mooncakes from Bakerzin

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Imagine a mooncake that has a spice tinge and decent shreds of dried scallops. While you’re at it, give the lychee rose mooncake a try too.

3. Heaven on Earth Mooncake by Four Seasons Singapore

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Image: fourseasons.com

Heaven is pictured to life in its cerulean blue shell. The mooncake itself is a marriage of infusions – think sake, a 12-year-old Scottish Whiskey, chamomile and lime.

4. Pomegranate Truffle with Red Bean Chendol Paste by St Regis Singapore

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Image: yantingrestaurant.com

This is another snow skin mooncake that serves a local dish in a mooncake way. The tangy pomegranate flavour goes very well with the red bean paste, which is a pleasant surprise.

 

5. Momordica Fruit with Longan Mooncake by Regent Singapore

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This mooncake carries the flavours of cheng tng. It’s refreshing and sweet with herbal undertones. You get a Chinese chess set for free with each mooncake box you buy!

6. Salted Caramel with Peanut Praline Mooncake by Marriott Singapore Tang Plaza

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A nutty praline core awaits you while you bite into the salty-sweet goodness that’s essentially lotus seed paste with salted caramel.

7. Gin Pineapple Snowskin Mooncake at Goodwood Park Hotel

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Image: goodwoodparkhotel.com

You won’t have to take your cocktail in a glass anymore but in a slice. Prepare yourself for the heady hit of gin and the tasty pineapple cubes.

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