The best mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival 2024

One-Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant Duddell’s has released its annual mooncake gift box and hamper series to get Hongkongers ready for the autumnal festival. Customers can choose from a variety of options, including the restaurant’s lava custard mooncakes in signature gift boxes, or go for a limited-edition LED lantern gift box for an extra festive touch. Duddell’s has also partnered with Saicho Sparkling Tea to present an exclusive set, which features a mooncake gift box and a 750ml bottle of jasmine sparkling tea. Finally, don't miss Duddell's premium gift hamper that comes filled to the brim with items such as braised five-head South African abalone, homemade walnut cookies, Duddell’s signature X.O sauce, R’de Ruinart Reims Champagne, white tea disks from Fook Ming Tong, as well as Duddell’s lava custard mooncakes.

Where to buy: duddellsmooncakes.com
Price: From $438 and up (all orders placed before August 25 will receive an early-bird discount)

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong’s sweeping range of mooncakes. Aside from whipping up classic egg custard-filled mooncakes, the hotel has launched the Luna Celestia premium gift box that contains four tea-infused egg custard mooncakes, with flavours like Earl Grey and green tea. For an extra fancy option, The Ritz-Carlton’s Cantonese restaurant, Tin Lung Heen, presents a gift set that pairs its housemade egg custard mooncakes with premium tea leaves. Lastly, the hotel’s holiday collection also offers deluxe hampers with premium offerings like seasonal fruits, dried seafood, high-quality tea leaves, and Champagne.

Where to buy: ritzcarltonhkshop.com
Price: From $738 and up

Confectionery retailer Mr. Simms has launched its first-ever chocolate mooncake gift boxes. The gift boxes contain four artisanal handcrafted mooncakes with fillings like yuzu, Earl Grey, salted egg yolk, and French chestnut – each encased in a dark chocolate shell. These sweet treats are packaged in a midnight blue box that features gold detailing of Mid-Autumn Festival motifs like the Jade rabbit and a full moon, which makes for a lovely gift. 

Where to buy: mrsimms.hk and all Mr. Simms locations in Hong Kong
Price: $298

Forty-Five’s Shanghainese restaurant, The Merchants, has released a collection of flaky Suzhou-style mooncakes. Those who can’t decide between flavours can opt for the restaurant’s classic mooncake gift boxes, which come with four sweet and savoury pastries in flavours like red bean, salt and pepper with black sesame, and seaweed. Alternatively, The Merchants also offers a savoury gift box that comes with four juicy meat-filled mooncakes. Don’t miss the restaurant’s limited-edition lantern box that contains eight sweet and savoury mooncakes – this could be a gorgeous centrepiece during the holiday period.

Where to buy: alfreds.hk
Price: From $450 and up

Celebrate the traditional Chinese holiday by digging into Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong’s delectable array of mooncakes with fillings such as white or golden lotus seed paste and salted egg yolks, egg custard, chocolate lava, and red beans with mandarin peel. For those looking to gift loved ones with showstopping presents, Mandarin Oriental also offers several deluxe mooncake hampers with exquisite products like Ruinart Champagne, oolong tea, candied ginger chocolate, homemade X.O sauce, and many more. 

Where to buy: hongkong.mandarinorientalshop.com
Price: From $350.4 and up (orders placed before August 15 can enjoy a discount up to 20 per cent off)

Treat your loved ones to Regent Hong Kong’s mini mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Aside from offering flavours such as egg lava custard, mandarin peel with red bean paste, and white lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk, the hotel’s festive gift box also comes with a new winter citrus tea custard mooncakes made using a black-orange tea blend created exclusively for the hotel.

Where to buy: regenthkshop.com 
Price: From $363.8 and up (all orders placed before July 31 will receive a 15 per cent discount)

Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong has released a curated selection of traditional and modern mooncakes to share during the festive period. Customers can delight in holiday treats with time-honoured fillings like double egg yolks with white lotus seed paste or lava egg custard. Alternatively, the hotel has also whipped up creatively filled mooncakes that range from mochi-filled mini mooncakes to snowy pastries stuffed with luscious Black Thorn durian.

Where to buy: boutique.shangri-la.com
Price: From $112.50 and up (orders placed for selected mooncakes before August 23 will receive a 25 per cent discount)

This Mid-Autumn Festival, Rosewood Hong Kong has released a new selection of mooncake gift boxes that will impress your friends and family. The hotel’s Chinese executive chef, Li Chi-wai, has expertly created a range of mooncakes using time-honoured recipes. Guests can enjoy classic mooncake fillings such as white lotus seed paste with double egg yolks, yellow lotus seed paste with olive seeds and double egg yolks, and egg custard. Alternatively, Rosewood Hong Kong also offers an assorted gift box with creative mooncakes like jasmine tea-infused egg custard, lapsang souchong tea white lotus seed paste, and red bean paste with mandarin peel. Last but not least, the hotel has partnered with the Hong Kong Palace Museum once again to offer an exclusive limited-edition mooncake gift box that comes decorated with a silhouette of the city’s skyline.

Where to buy: rosewoodhkshop.com
Price: From $498 and up (orders placed for selected mooncakes before August 1 will receive a 10 per cent discount)

Looking to try something other than Cantonese mooncakes? This year, Hong Kong Cuisine 1983 presents gift boxes filled with Suzhou-style mooncakes created by chef Silas Li. Each box contains six flaky mooncakes, and offers traditional fillings such as red bean paste with nuts, Yunnan ham with mixed nuts, or purple sweet potato paste with yolk. Additionally, chef Li has included a chocolate orange-flavoured financier inside each gift box as a surprise. 

Where to buy: Contact 2893 3788 to place orders
Price: $488 (all orders placed before July 31 will receive a 10 per cent discount)

This Mid-Autumn Festival, the Grand Dame of the Far East continues to offer an impeccable range of mooncakes. From gourmet festive pastries with fillings such as longan wolfberry with rose or mulberry egg custard and macadamia nuts, to the hotel’s timeless mini egg custard mooncakes, The Peninsula Boutique’s holiday offerings will satisfy all tastebuds. As you might expect, these come in a range of gorgeously packaged gift boxes, such as the degustation box that contains a mix of mooncakes and transforms into a decorative lantern. Finally, the hotel’s hampers – with goodies like chocolate carrés, assorted cookies, tea bags, and deluxe mooncakes – will make for excellent gifting options.

Where to buy: peninsulaboutique.com/hk/en/
Price: From $298 and up