Let’s be honest, when we were kids, Mid Autumn Festival used to be all about lanterns and fighting over delicious baked skin mooncakes. While we’re still pining for mooncakes, it’s the uniquely flavored especially rare ones that grab our attention.
We did some prowling in the yearly- mooncake scene and we have gathered some rare and unique tasting mooncakes that sound amazing and definitely worth the splurge.
Uniquely delicious, we present you 5 rare mooncakes you MUST try this Mid Autumn Festival.
If you love Caramel
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The perfect balance of sweet and salty, caramel is a favorite for ice-creams and brownies and this year it’s all about the mooncake. If you’re looking for a sea salt mooncake with a touch more sweetness head down to Intercontinental for their Sea Salt Caramel with Chocolate Pearls Snowskin Mooncake.
For the Chocolate Lovers
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Chocolate lovers rejoice, 2016 brings only the most decadent richest tasting chocolate mooncakes. Chocolate mooncakes have now become quite the norm with so many bakeries and up-scale restaurants carrying them. If you love the bitter-sweet taste of dark chocolate, head over to GoodWoodPark Hotel for their Dark Chocolate Crunchy Hazelnut Snowskin.
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For the most decadent chocolate mooncake, get the Chocolate Brownie with Cookies & Honeycomb Mooncake from Marriot. Pieces of cookies engulfed in chocolate brownie and honeycomb? YES PLEASE.
For Mooncakes with an (Alcoholic) Kick
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If you’re looking for mooncakes that’ll give you a light buzz, this year you can look forward to the Gin Pineapple Snowskin Mooncake available at GoodWood. Reminiscent of a tropical cocktail, this mooncake is packed with cubed pineapples and a dash of gin for a dessert worth the splurge.
If you love Savoury Treats
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Not everyone loves the sweetness of mooncakes, and if you’re just one of those people. Opt for Four Season’s smoked duck with nuts and lime baked skin mooncake. The savory blend of smoked duck, crunchy nuts and zest of lime is the perfect choice for a savory mooncake.
There you have it, 5 amazing mouth watering mooncakes that is worth the splurge! What are you waiting for? Let us know which mooncake you’re eyeing on this Mid Autumn Festival!
