This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 21, and brands have started retailing their mooncake offerings.
If you’re unsure of what mooncakes to get for yourself and your loved ones, consider these nine mooncake sets with pretty and functional packaging that can serve as stylish storage options or display pieces long after Mid-Autumn Festival has passed. They will be sure to earn you some oohs and ahhs on social media too.
Keep scrolling to check them out.
The artistic marbled gradient gift box combined with the colourful snowskin mooncakes within make for a playful, fantasy-like design. There are four flavours in this box – Yuzu Cranberry, Mung Bean Pistachio, Coconut Pecan Baked Almond and Gula Melaka Macadamia – with two pieces each.
If you’re gifting to someone who doesn’t like mooncakes, consider the Chocolate Mooncakes Box of 8 ($98) made entirely of chocolate instead. The box also features a similar eye-catching marbled gradient, with orange, yellow and green tones.
Enjoy 25% early bird discounts from now till August 30. Order via Janice Wong’s website or email info@janicewong.com.sg.
How do you make traditional mooncakes look more fashionable? The Marmalade Pantry has decided to use a limited-edition faux leather tote to replace the box, making it a unique ‘gift bag’ instead.
The small iteration contains four mooncakes while the larger tote holds 12 to 16. Two new flavours are introduced this year: Pandan Kaya with Melon Seeds and Classic Earl Grey Infused Lotus Paste, adding to the classic Baked Charcoal with Black Sesame and Macadamia Nuts and Double Yolk with White Lotus Paste flavours.
There are four gift sets available. The Marmalade Mix ($72+) has one of each flavour, The Classic Collection ($74+) has four Double Yolk with White Lotus, The Dual Deluxe ($238+) has 16 mooncakes with four of each flavour and a 30g tin of Gryphon Gold Moscato Tea, and finally, The Gold Moscato ($238+) has 12 mooncakes with three of each flavour and two tins of Gryphon Gold Moscato Tea.
Order via The Marmalade Pantry’s website, from now till September 17. The delivery/collection period is from August 13 to September 21.
For this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Regent Singapore has taken inspiration from each of its restaurants to create a series of new snowskin flavours. The new flavours are made with basil-infused limoncello, kyoho grape and Ki No Bi dry gin, goji berries with osmanthus and dried strawberries, and oolong tea blended with lily buds, ginger flower and pink cornflower. These can be obtained in the Regent’s Snowskin Collection ($54 for four pieces or $90 for eight) or bought separately.
If you’re feeling extravagant, get The Luxury Box ($388) that comes in a briefcase-like box. It contains four large bird’s nests and gold leaf mooncakes, two 100ml journey cocktails by Manhattan and two crystal whiskey glasses.
Enjoy 15% discount for selected credit cards, from now till September 21. Order via Regent Singapore’s website.
This year’s limited-edition mooncakes are housed in a glass gift box, presented as a Petite Gift Set (from $64.20) or Noble Gift Set (from $265.40). You can choose to have traditional baked or snowskin mooncakes in your set.
The Noble Gift Set is themed after Beijing’s Forbidden City The Palace Museum, and also contains a canister of Oolong Osmanthus tea and a Sea River Cliff tumbler.
Order via St Regis’ website.
Man Fu Yuan offers a Secret Garden set that comes with a gold or rose gold keepsake tin with a garden motif of flowers and birds. The tin also opens to a two-tiered stand perfect for a high tea setting. The new snowskin flavours, inspired by flower teas, are Japanese Matcha Green Tea & Osmanthus Truffle, Oolong Peach & Black Sesame Truffle, Earl Grey Baileys Cream Truffle and Rose Flower Tea Truffle with Pistachio.
Traditionalists can opt for the new Red Bean Tangerine Paste Baked Mooncake with either single or double yolk. Health-conscious? Consider the Low-sugar White Lotus Paste and Macadamia Nuts Baked Mooncake.
Enjoy 30% + 5% early bird discounts from now till August 22. Order via InterContinental Singapore’s website.
Adorned with floral and butterfly patterns, the soft cream and pink box opens to show four pieces of individually wrapped Classic Baked Mooncakes that are convenient for gifting or consuming. The available flavours are: Double Yolk with Macadamia Nuts and White Lotus Paste, Mother-Of-Pearl with Single Yolk and White Lotus Paste and Pine Nuts, Macadamia Nuts and White Lotus Paste.
Enjoy 15% early bird discounts on in-store purchases from now till August 31. Order via Raffles Singapore’s website.
Featuring a dark blue night sky with clouds and stars, Fairmont’s mooncake gift box looks dreamy and exquisite. The drawer design reveals four individually packed mooncakes, in classic flavours such as Plain Lotus, Single Yolk and Double Yolk options available. This gift box also comes with a Chinese tea set so that you’re ready to host at a moment’s notice.
Enjoy up to 25% discount from now till September 6. Order via Fairmont Singapore’s website.
With a design reminiscent of an elegant bento box, the new Mini Snowskin Brown Sugar Mochi mooncake box contains eight mini snowskin mooncakes inspired by brown sugar bubble tea. It contains brown sugar filling with chewy mochi bits.
Enjoy 25% early bird discounts from now till August 22. Order via Sheraton Tower Singapore’s website.
JW Marriott drew inspiration from the Peranakans with this year’s mooncake gift box. The drawer-style box has two colour options – Peranakan Teal and Blue Blossom. Inside the box are novel mooncake flavours that will tease your taste buds: Snowskin Green Apple with Soju Truffle, Snowskin Milk Tea with Baileys Truffle, Snowskin Mocha with Chocolate Truffle and Snowskin Pineapple Cempedak.
Order via JW Marriott Hotel Singapore South Beach’s website.
This article was first published in NUYOU. Translation and additional reporting by Ho Guo Xiong.