The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming thick and fast to Hong Kong on Oct. 6. Do you know what that means? It is time for mooncake season, where the city is bursting with savoury and sweet round custardy offerings.
Because at Foodie we like doing things differently, we have rounded up some of the more quirky and interesting mooncakes you can purchase this summer for yourself or to give to others. Get snacking!
The most quirky mooncakes in Hong Kong
1. Soulgood Bakery’s Basque cheesecake snowy mooncakes
Hong Kong homegrown Basque burnt cheesecake purveyor Soulgood Bakery is fusing together traditions this Mid-Autumn Festival with a series of Basque snowy mooncakes. Featuring a creamy cheesecake centre and a glutinous rice flour exterior, four flavours are available this season, including original Basque, strawberry yoghurt, classic egg custard, and salted egg yolk for the four-piece box. An extra original Basque and salted egg yolk mooncake is included in the six-piece box.
Buy here, pick up dates from Sep. 16 to Oct. 6 from Soulgood Bakery’s Hysan Place and K11 stores
Soulgood Bakery’s basque snowy mooncakes (4pcs) are priced at HKD288 and (6pcs) HKD368
2. Ralph’s Coffee lava egg custard & mocha coffee mooncakes
Ralph’s Coffee, Ralph Lauren’s international spin-off coffee brand, is back this year with a special edition mooncake gift box. The box is shaped like a classic British telephone booth, painted green to reflect the brand identity, and comes paired with Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bear barista. The set features three pieces of both a lava egg custard mooncake and mocha coffee mooncake.
Buy here, pick up from Sep. 6 at Ralph’s Coffee and select Ralph Lauren locations across Hong Kong
Ralph’s Coffee Hong Kong lava egg custard & mocha coffee mooncakes (6pcs) are priced at HKD488 till Sep. 5 and HKD568 from Sep. 6 onwards
3. Hong Kong MX Mooncakes’ Super Lemon Mooncakes
Hong Kong MX Mooncakes, one of the city’s largest producers and sellers of the festival delight, is bringing a touch of zest to the design of their new Super Lemon Mooncake signature. The mooncakes carry a refreshing citrus flavour with a tangy lava filling inside adding fun to your Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations.
Buy here, city’super, or Park n’ Shop, pick up from Oct. 2 at Maxim’s Cakes locations across Hong Kong
Hong Kong MX Mooncakes’s Super Lemon Mooncakes (8pcs) are priced at HKD198
4. Imperial Patisserie’s glorious lava mooncake trio
Imperial Patisserie returns this year for 2025’s Mid-Autumn Festival with fan-favourites made for gifting, especially with their decadent pastries. Their trio set features three different flavours of their ‘glorious lava mooncakes’, including lava custard, lava sesame, and lava red bean paste with mandarin peel flavours. Their mooncakes are Halal-certified too.
Buy here, pick up till Oct. 3 from Imperial Patisserie locations across Hong Kong
Imperial Patisserie’s glorious lava mooncake trio (9pcs) is priced at HKD398, normal price at HKD468
5. Hoi King Heen’s whisky chocolate mooncakes
Hoi King Heen is going big this year with Hong Kong’s first whisky chocolate mooncakes. The four-piece set is created using France’s premium Valrhona chocolate and infused with two Scottish whiskers, Ardray Blended Whisky and Bowmore 12-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky. Each mooncake is adorned with a stamp of Tiffany’s New York Bar, the sister venue to Hoi King Heen inside the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong.
Buy here, pick up from Hoi King Heen from Sep. 22 to Oct. 5
Hoi King Heen’s whisky chocolate mooncakes (4pcs) are priced at HKD408
6. Big Grains’ tea garden mooncakes
East-meets-West bakery chain Big Grains is introducing their new tea garden mooncakes set for Mid-Autumn Festival featuring two flavours of tea-infused mooncakes. The matcha mochi custard mooncake and earl grey chocolate custard mooncakes. The matcha used in the former mooncake flavour is sourced from the established 300-year-old Marukyu Koyamaen chain from Uji, Japan.
Buy here, pick up from Big Grains’ locations across Hong Kong
Big Grains’ tea garden mooncakes (4pcs) are priced at HKD208
7. Patisserie La Lune’s LuLu lava custard mooncakes
Patisserie La Lune joins hands with Hong Kong’s very own LuLu the Piggy for a fun mooncake box, featuring the character’s cheeky face stamped on each mooncake and decorating the box. Four lava custard mooncakes are included in each box, made extra custardy to ensure your mouth is filled with the soft sauce.
Patisserie La Lune’s LuLu lava custard mooncakes (4pcs) are priced at HKD198, normal price at HKD248
8. The Peninsula Boutique’s chocolate egg custard mooncakes
The Peninsula Boutique, the five-star hotel’s gourmet shop, is back this year with more innovation on the mooncake front. For the Mid-Autumn Festival, the mini chocolate egg custard mooncakes come onto the market. Inside the mini chocolate egg custard mooncake with toffee filling, savour a golden toffee filling, whilst the mini chocolate brownie chocolate egg custard is served within a fudge brownie shell.
Buy here, pick up from The Peninsula Boutique till Oct. 6
The Peninsula Boutique chocolate egg custard mooncakes (4pcs) are priced at HKD308
