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FOOD & WINE
Mid-Autumn Day Dreams
by Katherine Arteche
07 Sep 2019
07 Sep 2019
With the Mid-Autumn Festival looming, we round up the most lucrative yet unique mooncake flavors that seem to have been concocted out of this world.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Chef Lap Fai of Hua Ting restaurant draws conjures a medley of flavours, one of which is inspired from a childhood snack. A unique blend of hawthorn and melon seeds results in a ruby exterior sheening through the patterned snowskin. Hawthorn are more commonly referred to the berries that have been closely associated with its health benefits from its high antioxidant content to digestion aid. Its flavour is mostly tart and tangy, with a slight sweetness.
The unique mooncakes are available in a box of eight, priced at $70.
Millennium Mooncakes by Hua Ting will be available at Orchard Hotel Lobby Kiosk from 1 August to 13 September 2019. All prices quoted are subject to prevailing government taxes.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Shangri-La Hotel
Shangri-La Hotel curates two unique flavors for their bite-sized snowskin mooncakes this year, one of which takes on a local palette. The hotel debuts a kaya and white chocolate snowskin rendition, where the coconut spread which is none other than the in-house creation. The filling is surrounded with a white lotus paste filling, and wrapped in snowskin dyed in a complementing shade of leaf green. The accompanying new flavor comes in yuzu with sake, and these versions are boxed in baby blue patterned tins.
The Shang Palace mooncakes are available for retail at Shangri-La Hotel Singapore and several pop-up locations until 13 September.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Godiva
There’s another flavor camp when one doesn’t fall into either the traditional baked or snowskin groups – chocolate. Godiva is here to deliver with milk and dark chocolate variations, the latter containing a hefty serving of a famous cookie spread. Speculoos rests on top of a dark chocolate filling, both encased in a dark chocolate shell. The offering is also available in luxury gift boxes, up to $378 for a fully stocked hamper.
Available in stories from 19 July 2019.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Guinness
The stout cult makes a comeback with its all-black snowskin, encasing white coffee-flavored lotus paste in a white chocolate-infused shell, and filled with a surrounding Guinness-infused chocolate ganache. These dark bites are adorned with the Guinness logo, and come in a set of four, each packaged in decorated keepsake boxes.
The limited edition mooncakes are available with every purchase of three packs of Guinness Draught via online retailers from 12 August. While stocks last.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Feng Shui Inn
Salted egg has been a flavor storm that hasn’t seemed to die down yet. Feng Shui Inn reinterprets this savory note in Teochew-styled mooncakes, where the white lotus custard milk filling envelops a molten salted egg yolk centre. The spherical pastry is also symbolic of the festival’s full harvest moon, representing family unity and completeness.
Available in a box of six at $78 via retail until 13 September.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Yan Ting
We’re in love with Yan TIng’s visual-perfect snowskin creations, woven with crowd-favorite flavors and colors from taro to royal milk tea and black sesame. Among its latest quadrant offering is the debut of chendol paste with melon seeds. Its snowskin is moulded in a shade of jade, encapsulating the unique coconut and gula melaka flavors within.
Available in a box of eight at $76 at Yan Ting Restaurant and La Pâtisserie at St. Regis Hotel.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
JW Marriott
In materialising signature creations, JW Marriott creates a cocktail-flavored snowskin mooncake named after a favorite from the Madame Fan Bar. Christened ‘Tian Mi Mi’, the alcoholic feature contains compositions of spiced whisky, honey, and mandarin, and with a white chocolate shell centre. Osmanthus and chendol flavors are also among the offerings, each of them color coded with accompanying colorful insides.
The mini snowskins are available in a box of eight and retails at $76 (Tian Mi Mi) and $72 (osmanthus and chendol).
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
The Ritz-Carlton Millennia
The Ritz-Carlton Millennia spritzes up its selection with martini-inspired selections including a new ‘Orangetini’ – a cocktail concoction of chocolate, orange zest, and liqueur. The new snowskin flavor is introduced alongside the hotel’s signature ‘Lycheetini’, either of which are available in a box of eight.
The specialty mooncakes come in a box of eight retailing at $78.
- HUA TING
- SHANGRI-LA HOTEL
- GODIVA
- GUINNESS
- FENG SHUI INN
- YAN TING
- JW MARRIOTT
- THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENNIA
- KAM'S ROAST
Kam's Roast
While the bar has been raised every year for new mooncake flavors, Kam’s Roast delivers a mooncake first – roast duck. Derived from the Michelin-star-graded poultry, two baked iterations contain either a red bean with orange peel, or with assorted nuts.
Each combination comes in a box of four, retailing at $68+.
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