Over The Moon
The Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner and there are choices galore for sending mouth-watering mooncakes to business associates, friends and family. Here are some tempting treats:
Szechuan Court & Kitchen (Fairmont): Packed in a cheongsam inspired box design, enjoy new flavours like the western-inspired mini snow-skin feulletine-hazelnut with wafer crunch nuts.
Pine Court (Meritus Mandarin): Impress with the Fortune Dragon mooncakes where five carefully crafted pastries form a motif of a dragon.
Peach Garden: Traditionalists will enjoy the handmade white lotus paste mooncakes, while those with more adventurous taste buds will savour the rich cappuccino and melon seed fillings.
Yan Ting (St Regis): The regal premium box is reason enough to buy this. Try fresh varieties like ginger infused milk snow skin mooncakes with century egg and custard paste or the pandan custard filling. The package comes with two canisters of premium Chinese tea.
Li Bai (Sheraton Towers): The limited edition treasure chest holds four delectable white lotus seed paste mooncakes with double yolks. The box can be used as an ornamental tissue box holder after the season's over.
Golden Peony (Conrad Centennial): Deliver in style with the auspicious red carrying case that looks like a traditional tiffin. Savour the delicious mooncakes from Golden Peony with flavours like the signature sweet potato in Chinese filo pastry or traditional lotus paste varieties.
Summer Pavilion (Ritz-Carlton): Be different with these pastries filled with smooth red bean paste and melon seeds specially created by Chef Fok Kai Yee. Also available are the popular green tea paste filling in snow skin mooncakes. They come in an interesting red packaging with a vivid-coloured print by the late American painter and printmaker Sam Francis.
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