![]() Keeping to Southeast Asian roots, The Fullerton stays true to classic recipes with White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Egg Yolks. Mid-Autumn Festival is no exception as the hotel introduces its first mooncake collection packaged in elegant turquoise-dipped boxes with floral motifs. The Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel Hong Kongįrom new build The Fullerton Ocean Park comes along a brand new source for your holiday gifting delicacies. ![]() The pomelo itself is a homage to the Mid-Autumn holiday, a fruit commonly enjoyed at the dinner table as a symbol of luck and happiness. Dang Wen Li by Dominique Anselĭon’t let the glowing pomelo-shaped lantern fool you, tucked surreptitiously within the sparkling layer is Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel’s very classic make of Chocolate Custard Mooncake and Classic Custard Mooncake, both a silky smooth egg custard filling baked within a buttery pastry crust. Elsewhere, Mini Egg Custard Mooncakes also fill the rota along with speciality flavours - dried-tangerine peel, chocolate lava and red bean paste - all presented in the hotel’s iconic fan-shaped packaging. Long-time institution Mandarin Oriental crafts a mooncake selection of similar time-honoured calibre, with a very traditional take on the classic mooncakes that showcase MO’s committed use to quality ingredients with the White and Gold Lotus with Egg Yolks. The former is an age-old recipe from the restaurant, made with meticulously prepared white lotus paste and salted egg yolk, while the latter wraps smooth egg custards within a golden, buttery shell. Inside the trays of the bright Chinoiserie-designed box - fitted with authentic Chinese elements including “window grilles” in the ruyi knot motif - is the White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Egg Yolks and Mini Egg Custard mooncakes. Each box is designed after the Houses within The House Collective, with Hong Kong’s The Upper House covered in the same tranquil details and earth tones as the physical interiors above Pacific Place.īeloved Cantonese eatery China Tang’s mooncakes are always a true-to-tradition make this year’s is no exception. Of course don’t overlook the seemingly nondescript packaging, this year the hotel enlists EDITECTURE for a sustainability-focused, curio house-inspired design that points towards the ancient Chinese tradition of an “emperor’s toy chest”. Others in the selection include: Mini Earl Grey Tea Custard, classic Red Bean Paste with Mandarin Peel and Assorted Nuts with Dried Figs. The pastries themselves are of thoughtful creation blending both the modern and the traditional in health-conscious recipes including Maltitol Low Sugar Mini White Lotus Seed Paste with Yolk Mooncake. Keeping to the sleek, architectural manner of The Upper House, the Mid-Autumn mooncakes selection is of similar design-forward brief. While executive chef Yip Kar On’s make of the restaurant’s signature Lava Cream Egg Custard Mooncake is sure to be delicious, the main attraction of this mooncake gift-set is the custom-designed packaging by Hong-Chong Ip, including an LED-fitted, paper lantern sculpture that emits a soft, diffused glow. In the case of Duddell’s, a contemporary Cantonese eatery nestled amongst a stunning art-filled space, emphasis on aesthetics is just as important as the mooncakes that sit within. ![]() Filled with the famed Italian brand’s indulgent cocoa filling, the mooncake - intended to be enjoyed warm - sits alongside more traditional serves of Egg Custard Mooncake featuring a salted egg yolk centre, White Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake and Cranberry and Assorted Nuts Mooncake filled to the brim with a nutty mix of pistachios, almonds, macadamia nuts, pecans, pumpkin seeds, walnuts and sesame. But what Cova does have on offer this Mid-Autumn Festival is a new mooncake flavour within the collection: Lava Chocolate Mooncake. No, nothing to do with the famous Mango Dome, unfortunately.
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