With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming up next weekend, there’s no better time to get your fix of mouthwatering mooncakes.
If you’re located in the Klang Valley, don’t miss these six establishments that are serving up sweet and savoury treats for the season. (Psst, did you check out yesterday’s choices, too?)
1. Travel the world
Take a trip around the world when you bite into Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur’s innovative destination-inspired snowskin mooncakes. Travel to Trieste, Italy, with its illy espresso and cashew nut mooncake; commute to Kyoto with the Japanese matcha tea with lychee treat; and experience Brussels with its show-stopping dark Belgian chocolate mooncake with dehydrated raspberries.
There’s also a local destination – Melaka features a blue pea flower, yuzu and cranberries.
Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a hit of alcohol, the Shanghai mooncake features lychee infused with Peddlers Shanghai crafted gin; the New York City option shows off Le Meridien’s take on a Manhattan Cocktail in the form of a mooncake; while Vera Cruz contains Kahlua coffee liqueur, vodka, and illy espresso martini.
Visit your destination of choice by clicking here.
2. Sweet and savoury
In collaboration with renowned dried-meat brand Oloiya, Grand Imperial’s handcrafted snowskin custard and chicken floss mooncake achieves the perfect balance of sweet and savoury enveloped in a stunning pale blue snow skin.
This mooncake promises a burst of flavours and textures that will invigorate the senses. The restaurant group also offers a whole range of tasty mooncakes, from the traditional to the unique!
Check out the Grand Imperial website here.
3. Majestic flavours
An artisanal mooncake brand, Casahana offers a variety of Mid-Autumn treats presented in stunning gift packaging. Notable flavours include German Black Forest, coffee lotus, mocha lava, matcha red bean omochi, Musang King lava, and the Royal Osmanthus.
Visit Casahana’s website for more information.
4. Award-winning delicacies
Sometimes, old-school is best. For a taste of traditional Chinese-style mooncakes, check out Oriental Restaurant’s award-winning Shanghai Style offering, as well as its Single Egg Yolk & Yam Paste in Teochew Style mooncake.
Other chef’s recommendations include the Creamy Lava, and Single Egg Yolk & White Lotus Paste traditional mooncakes.
Check out Oriental Restaurant’s Mid-Autumn range here.
5. Timeless classics
On top of classic baked mooncakes such as white lotus and red bean paste, Grand Harbour has a series of snowskin mooncakes filled with delicious, high-quality ingredients, including its popular yam-paste variety.
For a more eccentric option, try the Supreme Nuts with Ham.
Click here to find out more about Grand Harbour’s offerings.
6. Aim for the stars
Craving mooncakes with a Starbucks twist?
Inspired by its signature beverages, the franchise’s Mid-Autumn flavours include the coffee-inspired caramel macchiato; matcha adzuki, a green-tea lotus mooncake with red bean lava; chocolate hazelnut praline; and golden lotus salted egg, a classic lotus cake with an indulgent salted-egg lava filling.
Visit your closest Starbucks outlet to sink your teeth into these delights!