mooncake

From creative mochi mooncakes to handcrafted ones baked fresh on the spot; and from multi-functional boxes to packaging that includes a recycling service, celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival this year with mooncakes from these MICHELIN-recommended hotels and restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau, each guaranteeing quality in both design and taste.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong and Macau offers a wide plethora of mooncakes that come in different styles and flavours! Here's where to get the best ones.

Each festival has a distinct set of delicacies, such as glutinous rice balls for the Chinese New Year, green dumplings (Qingtuan) for Ching Ming Festival. Shanghaiese people always celebrate Mid-Autumn festival with their favourite “Suzhou Style Mooncakes”. What does it look like? Compared to the widely-known Cantonese mooncakes, what are the differences?

MICHELIN restaurants at various Hong Kong hotels are celebrating the traditional festival with their own mooncake creations

Like wine and cheese, the pairing of mooncakes with tea have been a classic combination since time immemorial. We ask Kezia Chan, the tea master of MICHELIN-starred Chinese resaurant Rùn to share her best mooncake and tea pairing tips to make your Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations all the more delicious.

We showcase the mooncake offerings from the city’s top restaurants and hotels that run the gamut from traditional flavours to inventive creations with molten lava centres and mini heart shapes.

As an homage to the astronomical body, the ethereally beautiful Teochew mooncake captures our imagination in every sense. After it is deep-fried, the pale white skin turns enticingly golden, which brings out a sense of artistry in every layer of the flaky puff pastry.