THE LOWDOWN It's a double celebration at Goodwood Park Hotel. WHAT WE LOVE The Celestial Premium Gift Box ($168) offers a little of everything – from baked treats right down to loose tea leaves. THE LOWDOWN You’ll find an unfussy curation of mooncakes – both baked and snowskin – at Crystal Jade. The result: easily snackable creations that you can enjoy – sans the guilt. ORDER HERE shop-panpacificsingapore.panpacific.com/en_SG/. Mooncake season is almost here, and we’re completely ready for it.
Small enough to finish in two or three bites, these lovely pastries are an excellent size for a light postprandial treat.
Its bestsellers include the Avocado Macadamia Snowskin Mooncake, which contains creamy, mashed avocadoes and crunchy macadamia nuts, and the Mao Shan Wang Snowskin Mooncake made with 100 percent bittersweet premium Mao Shan Wang durian puree wrapped in a delicate black charcoal snowskin. Déjà vu! This indulgent treat is presented in an opulent gold and red box bedecked with floral motifs, and is limited edition. The Moonlighter ($15) is an Asian-inspired tipple – with eight treasure tea-infused Milagro tequila, grapefruit juice, chrysanthemum syrup, and orange bitters –that’ll help cut through the rich, decadent parcels. We're in peak mooncake season and the forecast is a flurry of sweet treats in a multitude of unconventional flavours packed in a pretty box. It’s great as is, but even better when the sweetness is balanced with a single yolk core. Following a new Regent Singapore tradition that started last year, each of the hotel’s dining outlets creates mooncakes with its own unique spin. They come in boxes of eight fun flavours like Praline Popping Candy Chocolate Cake, Popcorn Caramel Chocolate Fondant Cake and the locally inspired Gula Melaka Banana Cake. It shouldn’t be overly starchy or taste like dough. Place your orders before September 28 to enjoy early bird discounts. The outer layer on snowskin mooncakes should be stretchy with the consistency of mochi. Avocado macadamia snowskin mooncake feels like biting into a creamy milkshake that isn’t overly sweet, and mulberry with cream cheese has just the right tartness to balance out the sweetness from the cream cheese. Inside, choose to fill it with options of white lotus paste with single ($16.50 each) or double yolk ($18) each, or sample the popular charcoal white lotus seed paste mooncake that’s studded with macadamia nuts. This year, Si Chuan Dou Hua presents a series of low-sugar mooncakes that comes packed within a regal, embroidered gift box. Each set, with a box of mooncake and two cold brew tea, goes for $48. Unique flavours aside (there is butter, mocha, and strawberry), each cookie cracks open to reveal gifts that can be redeemed at Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant. Depending on your luck, prizes range from a bottle of wine to free Peking duck, to even massage treatments from PARKROYAL on Beach Road. The eight snowskin mooncake flavours are all minis, and are available in individual flavours as boxes of eight, or as an assortment box with all eight flavours. The restaurant offers complimentary delivery for bulk orders of 50 boxes and above to a single location.
Other highlights include a new vegan flavour composed of lotus paste, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon and a centre of sweetened pumpkin; as well as a decadent baked custard option containing bird’s nest. Kickstart the festival with Gin Thye’s snowskin bamboo charcoal mao shan wang mooncakes (available on Gin Thye ) ! Collect your orders from the hotel lobby, or via islandwide delivery for a fee of $74.90, by 1 October. Plush tea purveyors, TWG Tea, have been making a name for themselves in the mooncake stakes. A series of cocktails ($24 each, $80 for four), concocted by Manhattan’s head bartender Sophia Kang, are also available to pair with these novel treats. There’s also the mao shan wang durian snowskin mooncake, a must-get for lovers of the fruit, where premium bittersweet pulp is wrapped around soft snowskin. THE LOWDOWN This year, Si Chuan Dou Hua presents a series of low-sugar mooncakes that comes packed within a regal, embroidered gift box. Thanks for subscribing! THE LOWDOWN It's not every day you see a Michelin-starred restaurant that isn't dedicated to Chinese cuisine join the mooncake fray. THE LOWDOWN Sample the best of Regent Singapore’s culinary concepts through its mid-autumn collection. It’s an imaginative treat unlike any we’ve sampled. The latter is inspired by a plum-picked tomato dish served at 藝 yì by Jereme Leung, and is composed of fresh apricot purée, sourplum and white chocolate. Roasted pine nuts help lend a delightful crunch in every bite.
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WHAT WE LOVE Not going to lie, we adore the blue gift box these mooncakes come in. Tai Chong Kok - Singapore's original mooncake bakery of choice, since 1935. These snowskin beauties are particularly photogenic. Baked mooncakes are available too, with options such as double yolks with macadamia nuts and white lotus paste. First, there’s the baked variant ($12 each) that feels more like a pie than a mooncake. If the mooncake has an artificial flavour – it's probably because it's heavy on the food additives – you’re better off not eating it. Enjoy the best of both worlds with the restaurant’s mixed box of four, where the flavours are split equally. Tart-sweet citrus mousse, made using fresh orange juice is mixed with fresh red grapes – a juicy burst in every bite. EZ-Link releases all-new Disney Tsum Tsum Stitch & Scrump EZ-Charm (From 29 Sep 2020) Enjoy 1-for-1 deals at Burger King with these coupons valid till 19 October 2020 McDonald’s will be offering 1-for-1 deals and more from 10 Sep – 7 Oct 2020 Here's hoping that this kickstarts trend towards more sustainable mooncake packaging in the future! Love the classics? The champagne darjeeling’s moscato-like sweet notes, for instance, is best paired with the earthy purple sweet potato mooncake.
This year’s mid-autumn festivities fall on the hotel’s 120th anniversary, and with it comes a luxurious 120th-anniversary mooncake that spans 16.5cm wide and is stuffed with 12 salted egg yolks. The cool chocolate shell mooncakes ($12 each), which feels like tucking into an oversized chocolate truffle. Granted, the Mid-Autumn Festival is still quite some time away on 1 October, but it’s never too early to start placing orders for our favourite baked and snowskin mooncakes. Inside, choose to fill it with options of white lotus paste with single ($16.50 each) or double yolk ($18) each, or sample the popular charcoal white lotus seed paste mooncake that’s studded with macadamia nuts. WHAT WE LOVE The complimentary fortune cookies that come with every order of a box of four mooncakes. *For corporate orders (20 Boxes and above), please Whatsapp or Call us @ +65 9755 9858 to get a quote. Within a faux leather case comes four different treats, with highlights of the red lotus paste with hand-chopped bakwa, and the white lotus paste where salted yolk comes blended and incorporated within for a creamier, decadent filling.
Those looking to revisit old favourites can also look forward to the mao shan wang version and the hazelnut yuzu. The specially crafted baked pu er with chia seeds ($76 for four) is packed with the aroma from tea leaves, while pops of chia seeds help provide some fun pops of crunch. Famed for its light and fluffy Swiss rolls, local bakery and confectionery Kele also carries a range of seasonal snowskin mooncakes that do immensely well each year. ORDER HERE swensens.com.sg. news Mid-Autumn Festival: 5 best mooncakes in Singapore, Tickle your taste buds with these heavenly mooncakes. Reserve your mooncakes from now until 25 September and order them online here. Read more: Best hidden speakeasy bars in Singapore. Nothing goes better with mooncakes than a warm cup of Chinese tea, and Yan Ting at The St. Regis Singapore takes this a step further with its new tea-infused snowskin flavours of Royal Milk Tea with honey osmanthus truffle, and green tea with oolong tea truffle. This year hasn’t given us much reason to celebrate, so we’re always looking forward to the next special occasion (or public holiday) — anything to bring us some cheer in these bleak times. There’s also the Legacy Bundle ($120), a well-priced promotion that comes with a box of baked mooncakes, a box of assorted snowskin mooncakes, and two pieces of Japanese sweet potato mooncakes. Orders can also come in a multi-functional two-tiered box that can double up as extra storage. (It only takes 30 seconds, we promise! THE LOWDOWN Hot favourites from Old Seng Choong’s mooncake collection are making a return this year. We’ve handpicked 5 of Singapore’s best for you to try. They can also be purchased directly between 9AM and 8PM daily until 28 September from the Raffles mooncake booth located at the North Bridge Road Atrium in Raffles Arcade. The Four Treasures Baked Mooncakes set ($73.80), for instance, features a sampling of the reduced sugar jade paste with melon seeds, alongside timeless classics of assorted nuts with chicken ham, double yolk white lotus, and charcoal black sesame. Each set comes packed in a satin-covered crimson box that feels, and looks, luxurious.
THE LOWDOWN Add some fun to your mid-autumn celebrations with the quirky collection from Mdm Ling Bakery.
A delight from start to end. This year, Chef Mandy Yeo of Szechuan Court has also added two new flavours to its snowskin offerings: a seductive caramel sea salt-flavoured creation, and a jade-green, Pu Er tea-infused mooncake laden with chia seed for texture. Traditional Mooncake Get Up To 60% Discount For Corporate Orders! Order the mooncakes from now till October 1 via its online ordering system. Paradise Group, which operates restaurants such as Paradise Dynasty and Paradise Teochew, has created a range of snowskin mooncakes filled with white lotus paste and Valrhona’s Inspiration chocolate truffles infused with fruity flavours and liqueurs. It gets its pastel hue from natural additions of rose petals and raspberry powder, and comes perfumed with longan honey, dried longan, and lingzhi spores, a prized ingredient that's widely believed to come packed with immunity-boosting properties. Collection can be done at Shangri-La Hotel’s mooncake specialty counter at the Tower Wing lobby on level 1, or via home delivery for $20 for orders below $200. The Mandarin Oriental’s mooncake selection has one standout option this Mid-Autumn festival, the Oriental Mooncake with Silver Lotus Paste, Yuzu and Melon Seeds. Delivery is complimentary for a minimum order of 50 boxes.