How Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong puts a modern spin on mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival
The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong has created sweet mini egg custard mooncakes in boxes by four design-winning Hong Kong students
Who doesn’t love the annual Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, which sees families and communities meet for a feast to give thanks for the harvest of the summer’s crops.
The ancient festival, with its roots in both Chinese and Vietnamese cultures, falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar – the night when the moon is at its fullest and brightest.
The family theme of the festival is still widely observed, with celebrations featuring children holding numerous assorted lanterns. Shops also sell mooncakes – traditionally a dense pastry made of lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk – which are now made in huge variety of sweet and savoury flavours.
This year, The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, is rolling out a series of modern mooncakes to celebrate the festival.
The mini egg custard mooncakes feature a sweet filling complemented by a soft shell.
A highlight of the hotel’s mooncake offerings this year are two exclusive boxes featuring winning designs by SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Hong Kong students.
Each mooncake box comes filled with eight mooncakes.
The first winning design, titled “Stardust”, was designed by Kaylee Chan and Anna Siu and depicts images of the traditional festival, including a full moon surrounded by stars.