Are you a mooncake fans? or still thinking which mooncake to go for this year. Since the celebration will be held in 27 September 2015, it is time to grab your mooncake to celebrate the upcoming Mooncake Festival. Who FARES Malaysianfoodie Top 10 Mooncakes this year.
1) SHANGRI-LA KUALA LUMPUR
Not just bringing you the beautiful packaging this year, the mooncake in Shangri-La had not disappoint us in terms of taste and packaging. They come out with the their 4 new mooncakes which is the Yam lotus seed paste with single yolk, Shanghai pandan lotus seed paste with single yolk . Mini ping pei black sesame seed with yolk and the Mini ping pei chocolate with almond and hazelnut.
RECOMMENDATION
Assorted Nut and Sun Dried Fruits, White Lotus Paste with Single Yolk, Snow Skin Durian Mooncake, Shanghai Pandan Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk.
Hilton KL brings you with their signature mooncake which includes the a nice packaging. Not just alike a jewellery box, but it brings you with the gracious look with the bright red packaging or the LIMITED edition pink box.
RECOMMENDATION
Fiery Phoenix, Blue Moon, and Heavenly Gold.
3) MANDARIN ORIENTAL
Mandarin Oriental brings you with ther wide choice of classic all-times favourites, the new snow skin flavours or the sinful chocolate mooncakes. Lai Po Heen mooncakes are priced between RM20 to RM48.
RECOMMENDATION
Creamy Milk Tea Paste (RM 30), Bird’s nest with Pandan Paste (RM 38), Chocolate Palette d’or with salted caramel, bourbon vanilla and Guanaja ganache (RM 23) and the Chocolate Kaya and ivory filling (RM 23) and the Gold Coated Lotus Paste and Single Egg Yolk (RM 48)
4) SHANGHAI RESTAURANT
Simple box in red with the named – Shanghai where you can have the indulgence of their mini mooncakes. The mooncake made in house with the touch of the heart of the chef. They have a created 2 unique mooncake this year which is not to be missed.
RECOMMENDATION
“Snow Skin Fermented Black Garlic with Egg Yolk” and “Snow Skin Durian Paste with Truffle”.
5) INTERCONTINENTAL KL
Butterflies every where you can have the myriad colour of mooncake to choose from bamboo charcoal skin with assorted nuts(RM32), Scarlet Snow Skin (RM30) , Mini Peanut Butter Snow Skin with Japanese Purple Potato Paste and Yam Omachi and more. A variety of unique flavours not to be missed.
RECOMMENDATION
Mini Peanut Butter Snow Skin with Japanese Purple Potato Paste and Yam OmachI, Scarlet Snow Skin, Bamboo charcoal skin with assorted nuts(RM32) and Red Prawn Mooncake
Bringing you with the elegant packaging of mooncake and it is indeed beautiful presented with the pull out box with a hand-fan at the top. Nice and pretty unique for this round. They comes with over 8 choices of mooncakes inclusive of baked and snow skin.
RECOMMENDATION
Baked Assorted Nuts & Seeds, Baked Green Tea Black Sesame Paste and Snow Skin Ginseng Paste.
Famed for its unique and creative packaging, I am always in love with it. Last year, the lantern had captured my heart and this year they comes out with the beautiful jar. They have a variety of mooncakes to go for and only 2 snow skin mooncake which both are durian mooncake- either the Musang King or the D24 durian.
RECOMMENDATION
The Musang King Durian
8) SAUJANA KL
Elegant packaging mooncake comes with the choice of 8 traditional mooncakes with 4 snow skin mooncake. The mooncake comes simply beautiful with 3 different shapes.
RECOMMENDATION
Musang King (RM30) & Banana chocolate snow skin (RM25)
9) STARBUCKS
Starbucks this year brings you with their signature coffee mooncake. The coffee lover would love their mooncake where they have the taste of coffee indulgence and more. Comes with 4 flavours which are the Signature Durian; 1 piece of Chewy Nutty Cranberry, Green Tea Azuki and Apricot Hazelnut Latte.
RECOMMENDATION
Signature Durian and Green Tea Azuki
10) TAI THONG
Brings you with the fruity sensation this year, Tai Thong is famed for their mooncake wth the unique flavours. Tai Thong this year comes with four new flavours which is the Blueberry Lotus with Dried Fruits and Assorted Seeds, Orange Lotus with Palm Sugar and Assorted Seeds, Snow Skin Mango Kiwi with Assorted Dried Fruits, and the Snow Skin Pineapple Lotus with Jackfruit Mochi.Not to be missed is of course their SIGNATURE Imperial Musang King Royale.
RECOMMENDATION
Blueberry Lotus with Dried Fruits and Assorted Seeds and SIGNATURE Imperial Musang King Royale
wow~~ you have compile everything! I tried the starbuck before, their Chewy Nutty Cranberry really nice! I would go for this, since it can buy in any starbucks outlet. haha
I am headache on what to buy on mooncake, and your post do help me a lot…now I have idea what to buy~haha…thanks
The blue mooncake is very eye-catching. I wonder how it tastes like. I love to collect mooncake packaging and reuse them to keep my small stuff. Very colourful and fresh.
I loved the one from Mandarin Oriental…. and I should check out some of the others I guess… thanks for this…. this is just brilliant!!!!
The mooncake looks good. The packaging nice too. Wanna try it soon.
Wow, a lot of class level of mooncake! Never try either of them, will get myself at least 1 for this mooncake festival! Thanks for sharing 😀
I like to eat mooncakes. The boxes also so cute, wow need check these places soon.
All looks good and so cute and colorful. Wanna see where to grab soon as I like their boxes too.
Thanks for the recommendations! Otherwise, it’s a real headache to choose the suitable one for family by tasting the moon cakes one by one. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance! 😉
Some of the mooncake which I have tasted are really yummy and the best thing is their packing it is so gorgeous.
Ah i love mooncakes!! The packaging is so nice i believe the taste is nice as well
Thanks for sharing! There are so many mooncakes to choose from this year but the price is just getting more expensive 😐
The mooncakes look gorgeous! I usually like the lotus seed ones. Love the Shangri-La packaging. I only realized realized how expensive they are this year!
Crushing on the mooncake designs here <3 They all look so lovely and the taste measures equally, just wished that the prices weren't that expensive though.
Gonna share this info with my friends and relative! Love it how you compile the top 10 mooncakes in town. Gonna grab some for my family hehe
They are really having lots and lots of variety when it comes to mooncake..
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Moon cakes how interesting! I haven’t tried one. Should consider getting my first taste here.
OMG! First time, I see STARBUCKS mooncake…Many different of creative moooncake…they are competitive when they do new mooncake! O.O I want to eat all! 😀
Mooncake always a good thing to share in family gathering.
woot, so many nice mooncakes. 😀 sometimes too much of a good thing, is a bit over 😀
Hilton ones looks very colourful and vibrant. Would like to try some.
Yes. Their mooncake is one of the best
this is a great list, there’s a huge difference between great and ok mooncakes, so attracted to the starbucks design
Yes, it what you want. Sometimes the ok mooncake is also around that price. Now mooncake is not cheap.
Thanks for sharing with us your mooncakes recommendation 🙂