5 of Hong Kong’s most luxurious mooncakes to savour this year

It’s that time of year again when mooncakes rule supreme.

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, which traditionally sees families and communities hold a feast to give thanks for the harvest of summer crops, falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar – the night the moon is at its fullest and brightest.

This year the ancient festival, which has its roots in both Chinese and Vietnamese cultures and is still widely observed in China, including Hong Kong, takes place on September 13.

The family theme sees children celebrating while holding assorted dazzling lanterns and shops and hotels offer mooncakes – traditionally a dense pastry made of lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk – in ever more inventive varieties and flavours.

We’ve rounded up some of Hong Kong’s most luxurious mooncake offerings because there’s only one way to celebrate the festival – by eating a decadent mooncake or two (or three or even four).

When your mooncake options are as delightful as these, trust us: you’ll probably want to eat the whole boxful by yourself.

Spring Moon

The OG of all mini egg custard mooncakes, this is arguably Hong Kong’s most famous mooncake.

Spring Moon is a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant at The Peninsula Hong Kong, in Tsim Sha Tsui, and it has been creating its signature mini egg custard mooncakes since 1986 – so this recipe is pretty old (and that is an understatement). Each box contains eight pieces.