[Review] From Monopoly to Tea-infused to Bakkwa Mooncakes – Ten Assorted Mooncake Choices for 2022 Mid-autumn Pageant Gifting

With the mid-autumn pageant developing this weekend, what are a number of the attention-grabbing and enjoyable choices for mooncakes to probe for 2022? Curated here’s a record of a few of our favourites:

1. Monopoly Mooncakes from Mdm Ling Bakery

This has acquired to be the progressive mooncake set we obtained this 12 months – the World’s First MONOPOLY Mooncake Road Good Version from Mdm Ling Bakery, created in partnership with Hasbro.

The primary-of-its-kind idea impressed by essentially the most lovely streets on the earth, the long-lasting mooncake field is sustainably designed to rework immediately right into a MONOPOLY sport board set.

We expect that is excellent for household and associates gathering through the mid-autumn pageant to bond over a sport of Monopoly whereas having fun with mooncakes.

Every Monopoly mooncake set comes with 4 mooncakes. You’ll be able to select the flavours of the mooncakes, starting from Conventional Pure White Lotus Mooncake with Melong Seeds, with or with out Salted Yolk; to their Cookie-Impressed Baked Collection like Salted Mung Bean Mooncake, Japanese Purple Candy Potato Mooncake, Cranberry Florentine Assorted Nuts Mooncake and Savoury Hen Floss Mooncake; to their Nostalgic Baked Collection like Orange Peel Pink Bean Mooncake, Longan Dan Feng Tea Mooncake, Osmanthus Goji Berries Mooncake and Peanut Sesame Paste Mooncake; to their Lavacious! Signature Baked Collection like Japanese Matcha Inexperienced Tea Mooncake, Nanyang Espresso Caramel Mooncake, Hong Kong Salted Egg Yolk Custard Mooncake and Belgian-Italian Chocolate Hazelnut Mooncake.

Different mooncake sport units like Chinese language Chess and Snake and Ladder can be found too on their official web site. There’s a promotion now to take pleasure in 25% off in the event you order any 3 of their mooncake sport containers.

2. Tea-infused Mooncakes from The Peninsula

The Peninsula has launched a brand new twist to their now-iconic egg custard mooncake, first launched in 1986 – by infusing completely different tea flavours from Early Gray to Tie Guan Yin to Lychee Black tea to their very own Peninsula Mix Tea into their egg custard mooncakes.

The packaging seems like tea containers too and can make the right mid-autumn reward for tea lovers.

These mooncakes from Hong Kong can be found in Singapore on the following places solely, only for the mid-autumn pageant:

3. Black Sesame Mooncakes from Flash Espresso

Flash Espresso is a brand new entrant to the native mooncake market in Singapore. This 12 months, they launched their very own Black Sesame Mooncakes with Salted Egg as a part of their restricted time solely Fly Me to the Moon(cake) launch.

Providing delicate and chewy charcoal exteriors and fillings of candy mung bean, melon seeds and salted egg, the mooncakes are really useful to be paired with Flash Espresso drinks like their the Jasmine Inexperienced Tea, Yuan Yang Latte, and Golden Turmeric Milk.

As a result of black exterior, I although these have been coffee-flavoured mooncakes at first, however was pleasantly shock by the cake-like delicate texture and barely candy fillings with a savoury be aware.

4. Starbucks Mooncakes and Fuzzy Bunny Assortment

Why simply introduce mooncake units when you possibly can introduce an entire assortment of cups and wares on the similar time?

We completely adore the attractive Mid-Autumn Pageant Fuzzy Bunny Assortment from Starbucks, that includes fuzzy bunnies taking part in with yarn balls and knitting sweaters throughut the autumn season. Impressed by classic storybooks, this assortment is available in a comforting autumnal palette that’s featured within the mooncake packaging too.

Mooncakes sensible, Starbucks provide the standard Lotus Paste with Egg Yolk mooncake, in addition to the Starbucks Espresso with Caramel & Hazelnut mooncake in golden baked pores and skin, Salted Caramel Darkish Chocolate mooncake, Black Sesame Mochi mooncake and Pandan Salted Egg Mochi mooncake.

The mooncakes can be found for buy in all Starbucks shops, Cell Order & Pay, Starbucks Delivers on the Starbucks app, on the Starbucks On-line Retailer, LazMall and ShopeeMall. Single mooncakes are additionally accessible by way of Starbucks supply channels – GrabFood, Foodpanda and Deliveroo.

The Mid-Autumn Pageant Fuzzy Bunny Assortment can also be accessible on the cabinets in any respect Starbucks shops, and on-line on the Starbucks On-line Retailer, Lazmall and ShopeeMall from 24 August.

5. Yanxi 5 Aspect Snow Pores and skin Mooncakes

In collaboration with native artiste Kimberly Chia, Chef Ben Yapp, the Govt Chef at Yanxi Dim Sum & Hotpot, launched a 5 Parts Mooncake Assortment this 12 months that’s enased in a octagonal field to symbolize the 5 components of the universe – Wooden, Hearth, Earth, Metallic and Water.

Every of the snowskin mooncakes are colored and flavoured in another way accordingly to the represented components, making it appropriate for gifting to those that are into fengshui and such.

6. Bread Backyard Singnature Premium MSW Durian Snowskin Mooncakes

Bread Backyard gives all kinds of mooncakes starting from their Golden Emerald -Baked Pores and skin Mooncake, a low-sugar mooncake with lotus paste, pandan and salted egg yolk; to their Golden Royale – Baked Pores and skin Mooncake, a golden crust custoard mooncake with salted egg yolk; to one among their greatest sellers is their Signature Premium MSW Durian Snow Pores and skin Mooncake offered in a set of two.

All their mooncakes are halal licensed, making them appropriate for sharing with muslim associates and colleagues at dwelling or in your office.

7. Deliveroo x Swensen’s Ice Cream Mooncakes

Why order mooncakes alone if you may get a lantern collectively together with your order?

Deliveroo has come collectively for the second time with Swensen’s so as to add a magical contact to this Mid-Autumn Pageant  – with mochi-snowskin ice cream mooncakes and a limited-edition Deliveroo paper lantern.

From 2 – 9 September, the primary 30 prospects to order both the Swensen’s Royal, Deluxe, Signature or Create-Your-Personal Mooncake Units (from $43.80) from Swensen’s Tampines Mall, Ang Mo Kio Hub, Jurong Level retailers by way of Deliveroo will stand an opportunity to win a limited-edition Deliveroo paper lantern.

Swensen’s iconic mooncake flavours embrace: Sticky Chewy Chocolate, Cookies ‘N’ Cream, Mao Shan Wang with Sea Salt Gula Melaka, Durian King (D24), Chempedak, Sakura Lychee, and Yam & Pulut Hitam.

8. Bee Cheng Hiang Bakkwa Mooncakes

Aside from conventional mooncakes with white lotus paste and salted egg yolk, Bee Cheng Hiang, greatest identified for his or her bakkwa, gives an distinctive Mala Bakkwa Mooncake on prime of their standard Bakkwa Mooncakes. Good for meat lovers.

For offers hunters, there may be at the moment a web based unique Purchase 1 Get 1 Free sale now for mooncakes on their web site.

9. Shangri-La Mooncakes

The Shangri-La Singapore is a well-liked company mooncake gifting model, with their beautiful packaging. Yearly, I’ll obtain just a few Shangri-La mooncake units from completely different coporate companions.

Shangri-La Singapore’s 2022 Mid-Autumn Assortment consists of:

• Restricted Version Opulence – Origin Bar Cocktail Snowskin Mooncakes 
• Shangri-La Mooncake Choice Reward Field – For the Discerning Gourmands
• Moon Rabbit Child’s Mooncakes – A Nostalgic Deal with for the Little Ones
• The Return of Traditional Flavours – Signature Mini Baked Custard with Chicken’s Nest and Premium Mao Shao Wang Durian Snowskin Mooncakes
• Traditional Favourites – Perennial flavours akin to Yam with Pink Bean and Shredded Coconut, Shang Palace 4 Treasures, Decreased Sugar White Lotus Paste with 4, Double and Single Yolk

10. JU Signatures Flaky Teochew Orh Nee Mooncakes

Should you want a flaky pores and skin possibility, contemplate JU Signatures’ Flaky Teochew Orh Nee Mooncakes, offered by ex-Peony Jade Group Dim Sum Chef, Govt Chef Wong Kok Shyong.

The choice consists of: Flaky Teochew Pumpkin Orh Nee Mooncake (with or with out egg yolk, or with double egg yolks) and the Flaky Matcha Mochi Lava Orh Nee Mooncake.

A grasp craftsman in creating aritsanal dim sums and mooncakes, these are by far, the perfect mooncakes I sampled this 12 months and I might extremely advocate them.