The celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Singapore is just around the corner. We know precisely that mooncakes are one of the festival’s main highlights. With that, we will give you ideas of the best places to buy traditional mooncakes in the country.
Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival annually has been part of the Singaporean tradition. It is the second-most important holiday next to the Chinese New Year.
People take this as an opportunity to give thanks to the gods. Additionally, it is also a perfect occasion to celebrate togetherness and practice gratitude with the whole family.
11 Best Places to Buy Traditional Mooncakes in Singapore
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is also recognised as the Mooncake Festival or Moon Festival. You will undoubtedly notice the abundance of mooncakes during the celebration of this event.
To help you celebrate the traditional festival, we compiled the best places to order traditional mooncakes in Singapore. Check out our list below and tune in for updates!
Raffles Hotel
Due to high demand, advanced reservations for Raffles Hotel Mooncakes are only open for a limited time. On most occasions, the final call date doesn’t reach the month of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moreover, those who reserved orders in advance also need to pick up their orders on a set date.
Fortunately, the Raffles Mooncake Booth opens for walk-in customers during the whole Mooncake Festival season. If you wish to grab a box for your loved ones, we suggest you head to Raffles Singapore when the booth opens at 9 am.
Hilton Singapore Orchard
The Hilton Singapore Orchard introduced their very own collection of Cantonese-style mooncakes for this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival. To check out Hilton mooncakes, you need to see offers from Ginger Lily.
They offer some of the best traditional mooncakes in Singapore with their timeless and classic selection. The options also include vast choices of traditional flavours like Plain White Lotus and White Lotus with Single or Double Yolks. You may order a box of four mooncakes for only S$82.
Baker’s Brew
The Baker’s Brew introduced their Louvelle Collection for this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival celebration. It is a strikingly modern mandarin orange box with a clear case.
Their mooncakes are perfect for people who want their mooncakes with reduced sugar and no preservatives. You may also purchase their product and avail 25% off with the code BBSxTNAP25.
Clifford Pier
The Clifford Pier has their Clifford Pier Mooncake Tingkat. It tells a tale of nostalgia about the bustling hawker scene at Clifford Pier back in the day.
They offer four baked mooncakes in each of their tiffin carriers. It contains signature flavours that resonate with the diversity of hawker cuisine in Singapore.
Fairmont Singapore
Fairmont Singapore offers baked mooncakes in four much-cherished varieties. They carefully bake their product until they achieve the golden brown perfection of the mooncake.
You can also avail their other classic mooncakes flavours. It includes Single and Double Yolk, Pine Nuts & Pumpkin Seeds, and the newly-launched Melon Paste with Mixed Nuts and Pumpkin Seeds.
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Marriott Tang Plaza
Snowskin mooncakes at Marriott Tang Plaza usually come with an array of choices. Some of their bestsellers include the White Lotus Seed Paste Baked Mooncakes with Single Yolk. Additionally, they feature some of the best traditional mooncakes in Singapore with a modern twist.
Their snowskin mooncakes with durian filling will be perfect for durian-loving customers. They also offer authentic Mao Shan Wang durians packed in a soft snowskin.
Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant
In celebration of this year’s Mind-Autumn Festival, Xin Cuisine Chinese restaurant offers a mooncake promotion. You can get 30% off mooncakes if you order through their e-shop before the 6th of September 2022.
Aside from their selection of traditional mooncakes, Xin Cuisine also showcased different flavours with a modern take. These menu items include the Pandan Champagne Praline Mini and the Green Tea Chrysanthemum Mini mooncakes.
The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore
For this year’s celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore will be selling their limited-edition mooncake boxes collection.
The box they will be using for the mooncakes is a multifunctional box, which is colour mint green. Each pack contains eight Mini Baked White Lotus Macadamia Nuts Mooncakes.
Park Royal
Park Royal also offers mooncakes that have very environmentally-friendly and eye-pleasing packaging. Aside from the delicious mooncakes, they also did an excellent job with their box. It is an elegant four-tier lantern tower mooncake box perfect as a gift. You may order on Klook or Shopee.
Wang Lai Bakery
The Wang Lai Bakery is known as a confectionary booth in Chinatown.
In celebration of this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, the Wang Lai Bakery introduced its signature mooncake collection. They offer both traditional and modern flavours. If you are looking for mooncakes that are low in sugar, Wang Lai has it for you! You can place your order here.
Ding Bakery
Are you health-conscious and looking for freshly baked with zero additives or preservatives mooncakes? Mooncakes at Ding Bakery will be perfect for you!
They offer award-winning tradition and snow cake mooncakes that are handmade. The packaging of their mooncakes can also be perfect for gifting loved ones, family, and friends. Additionally, they offer up to 30% off as early bird discounts.
Whyzee
Whyzee is famous for offering some of the best desserts on the island. Naturally, their limited offering for the Mid-Autumn festival hails as one of the best traditional mooncakes in Singapore. They introduced their handmade and crafted Mid-Autumn mooncake for this year’s Mooncake celebration.
Their newest mooncake range includes classic flavours from Lotus and Custard mooncakes as well as local flavours such as Pandan and Sambal. If their selection interests you, you need to reserve an order ASAP because stocks are running out.
Additional content added by Kaira De la Rosa.
