Cover Crystal Jade and Lemuel Chocolate have joined hands to create new cacao-forward snowskin mooncakes (Photo: Crystal Jade Group and Lemuel Chocolate)
Crystal Jade and Lemuel Chocolate have joined hands to create new cacao-forward snowskin mooncakes (Photo: Crystal Jade Group and Lemuel Chocolate)
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This year's snowskin mooncakes showcase a creative fusion of traditional and modern flavours, offering unique and novel tastes for discerning gourmands
As Singapore looks forward to an evening of moon watching when it is said to be the brightest, food lovers like us have our eyes on the snowskin mooncakes that sweeten the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations.
Snowskin mooncakes are well-loved for their bouncy skin made with glutinous rice flour, and their interesting flavours that get more and more unique each year. As chefs push the boundaries of their imagination, they have once again come up with newfangled creations that come in equally imaginative gift boxes. Don’t know where to start? These are the snowskin mooncakes on Tatler’s radar that you can add to your wishlist.
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1. Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant
Above Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant promises a fragrant box of snowskin gems with two new local-inspired flavours (Photo: Sheraton Towers Singapore)
Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant promises a fragrant box of snowskin gems with two new local-inspired flavours (Photo: Sheraton Towers Singapore)
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This year, the culinary team of award-winning Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant is offering an assortment of snowskin gems with two new flavours inspired by beloved local flavours. Fans of the sweet and nutty notes of ondeh ondeh will look forward to the pandan coconut gula melaka mooncake. Made fragrant with pandan essence, the caramelised palm sugar and creamy coconut blend perfectly within the mooncake's snowskin exterior. Li Bai boasts its new Mao Shan Wang durian flavour that is rich with its distinctive fragrance and texture as creamy as the fresh fruit itself. Durian lovers will appreciate how it is complemented by the mooncake's delicate snowskin.
Following previous years' enthusiasm, Li Bai is bringing back its champagne, lychee martini, and sea salt truffle dark chocolate snowskin mooncakes to complete the set encased in a tiered drawer box that can be repurposed for jewellery or treasured trinkets.
2. Cherry Garden
Above The beauty of Peranakan culture are embraced in the floral blooms and green stained glass of Cherry Garden’s snowskin mooncake box (Photo: Mandarin Oriental, Singapore)
The beauty of Peranakan culture are embraced in the floral blooms and green stained glass of Cherry Garden’s snowskin mooncake box (Photo: Mandarin Oriental, Singapore)
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The Mandarin Oriental, Singapore has joined in on this year’s mooncake degustation with a selection of snowskin mooncakes in its ‘Cherry Garden Six Jewels’ collection. It comes in six vibrant flavours; those ready to indulge will enjoy the refreshing mango pomelo flavour, while others who prefer lighter options can look forward to the mellow and lightly sweet lychee longjing tea. The set is completed with delectable flavours like brown sugar ginger tea with longan, roselle with cranberry, purple sweet potato with black sesame, and red bean with pineapple.
Even the mooncake box, inspired by Peranakan culture, is a work of art. Featuring a green-stained glass front and a floral metal design, it’s a beautiful piece you’ll want to keep for storing keepsakes or enhancing your home décor.
Cherry Garden by Chef Fei
Chinese
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$ $ $
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5 Raffles Avenue, Marina Square, Level 5 Mandarin Oriental, S(039797)
3. The Clifford Pier
Add a hint of history to your Mid-Autumn celebration with The Clifford Pier’s snowskin mooncakes, stacked in a dainty floral tiffin carrier. The four-tiered tingkat features mooncakes in two new flavours: the piña colada snowskin mooncake with an indulgent white rum truffle at its centre, and the lychee rose snowskin mooncake imbued with sweet and fruity notes.
The Clifford Pier
Asian
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$ $
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80 Collyer Quay, The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore, Singapore 049326
4. Cédric Grolet Singapore
Above Cut open the the mooncakes to reveal Cédric Grolet’s signature technique characteristic of his trompe l'œil creations (Photo: Cédric Grolet)
Cut open the the mooncakes to reveal Cédric Grolet’s signature technique characteristic of his trompe l'œil creations (Photo: Cédric Grolet)
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Since his parade into Singapore’s pâtisserie scene, French pastry chef Cédric Grolet has joined this year’s Mid-Autumn festivities with his mooncake collection featuring five new flavours—coconut, pistachio, peanut and banana, raspberry, and pecan and vanilla.
Fans of Grolet’s trompe l’œil (trick-eye) artistry will delight in the raspberry mooncake, encased in a delicate chocolate shell that conceals luscious layers of rich raspberry ganache, raspberry gel, fresh raspberries, vanilla biscuit, and shortbread. For a more mellow flavour, the pecan and vanilla mooncake combines pecan ganache and vanilla milk jam within a chocolate shell, complemented by pecan biscuit and crispy pecans for an added crunch.
Cédric Grolet Singapore
Address: 30 Bideford Road, Level 1 COMO Orchard, S(229922)
5. Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant
Above Xin Cuisine’s new passion fruit paste with plum flavour available in its snowskin mooncake set (Photo: Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium)
Xin Cuisine’s new passion fruit paste with plum flavour available in its snowskin mooncake set (Photo: Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium)
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Presented in a luxurious red and gold box that doubles as a reusable tissue box, Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant offers six snowskin mooncakes with two tantalising new flavours—green tea paste with grape Roku gin, and passion fruit paste with plum.
The smooth and earthy notes of the green tea paste are perfectly balanced by the aromatic Roku gin and slightly sweet grape infusion, creating a modern twist on classic flavours. As for the passion fruit paste with plum, a bite of the snowskin mooncake reveals a tangy explosion of juicy plum pieces embedded in velvety passionfruit paste.
6. Crystal Jade Singapore
Above Crystal Jade and Lemuel Chocolate have joined hands to create new cacao-forward snowskin mooncakes (Photo: Crystal Jade Group and Lemuel Chocolate)
Crystal Jade and Lemuel Chocolate have joined hands to create new cacao-forward snowskin mooncakes (Photo: Crystal Jade Group and Lemuel Chocolate)
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Crystal Jade and Lemuel Chocolate have joined hands for this year’s snowskin mooncake offerings that are given a modern spin by blending Lemuel’s single-origin chocolate and Singapore staple beverage and dessert flavours—kopi c and cendol.
The cendol chocolate bon bon features a creamy red bean filling, caramelised gula melaka, and pandan coconut ganache—all encased in 70 per cent dark chocolate and finished with a layer of pillowy snowskin. In the kopi c chocolate bon bon, the coffee caramel filling made with robusta beans and evaporated milk is complemented by a lightly bitter coating of 72 per cent dark chocolate.
These locally-inspired flavours are accompanied by other enticing flavours such as the south jujube red dates with goji berry, and the golden chrysanthemum with osmanthus and melon seed mooncakes. Crystal Jade’s snowskin mooncake box perfectly captures memories with the lid doubling as a floral picture frame.
Crystal Jade
Address: 1 Kim Seng Promenade, #03-127 Great World, S(237994), +65 8366 8658
7. Summer Palace
Above Summer Palace’s ‘Reunion in Bloom’ snowskin set features nine flavours crafted with its revered Cantonese techniques (Photo: Conrad Singapore Orchard)
Summer Palace’s ‘Reunion in Bloom’ snowskin set features nine flavours crafted with its revered Cantonese techniques (Photo: Conrad Singapore Orchard)
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With its revered Cantonese techniques, one-Michelin-starred restaurant Summer Palace has come out with its ‘Reunion in Bloom’ snowskin mooncake box. Inside is an assortment of snowskin creations inspired by the restaurant’s signature Chinese tea rituals and tea cocktails. The lychee oolong chocolate balances the mellow flavours of oolong tea with the sweet fruity notes of lychee, all grounded in the light bitterness of chocolate. Fragrant notes of tea are continued in the red date tea mooncake with aged mandarin peels that add a fresh zest. As its crowning snowskin jewel, Summer Palace boasts the opulent bird’s nest mooncake generously adorned with gold leaf.
8. Golden Peony
Above Golden Peony’s snowskin mooncake collection is encased in a leatherette box embellished with peony motifs (Photo: Conrad Centennial Singapore)
Golden Peony’s snowskin mooncake collection is encased in a leatherette box embellished with peony motifs (Photo: Conrad Centennial Singapore)
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Golden Peony offers a set of four decadent snowskin mooncakes, revealing a perfect balance of flavours and textures. Tea lovers will be happy to hear that the hojicha with kinako truffle puts a twist on classic flavours, adding a smoky roasted note reminiscent of the tea. A smooth creaminess is served alongside in the purple ube yam mooncake that blends sweet potato with earthy notes of vanilla. Don’t forget the signature royal hazelnut crunch and the ondeh ondeh with gula melaka flavour that captures all senses of Singaporean nostalgia.
