Mid-Autumn Festival (2016) at Shang Palace (Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore)
Enjoy Shang Palace's exquisite mooncake creations this year from 28 July to 15 September 2016 this year. The pièce de résistance this year for Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore has to be the Honey Chocolate Collection which will feature four distinct flavours - Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Salted Toffee, White Chocolate Passion Fruit with Mango, and Roasted Sicilian Pistachio.
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Honey Chocolate Collection (S$88) | Photo Credit: Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore
The Honey Chocolate Collection (S$88 for a Box of Eight) will incorporate raw and unprocessed Leatherwood Honey from the pristine rainforests of the Tarkine region in Tasmania, Australia - home to the world's cleanest air and water. The honey is cold-extracted to retain its flavour and gentle aromatic properties (unlike commercial honey) and this rare Tasmania Leatherwood honey is known to host a slew of health benefits. The Honey Chocolate Collection is a product of intensive research by Area Pastry Chef Hervé Potus - each one of these intricate mooncakes are infused with a mousse-like filling inside a chocolate shell.
Shang Palace Four Treasures (S$75) | Photo Credit: Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore
For the traditional baked mooncake lovers, Master Chef Steven Ng of Shang Palace introduces three new flavours this year - Mini Baked Lychee Mooncake with Rose, Mini Baked Low Sugar Lotus Paste Mooncake with Macadamia Nuts and Mini Baked Mocha Mooncake with Hokkaido Milk. All these new creations will be in addition to the perennial favourites like the traditional baked lotus paste mooncake with the combination of salted egg yolks. The Shang Palace Four Treasures Baked Mooncake Gift Set (S$75) comprises of four regular baked mooncakes (one piece of each flavour) – White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolks, White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk, Plain White Lotus Seed Paste and Mixed Nuts with Chicken Ham as well as the Plain White Lotus Seed Paste.
Shang Palace Eight Treasures (S$88) | Photo Credit: Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore
Thinking about trying the new minii baked mooncakes this year? Choose the Shang Palace Mini Eight Treasures Baked Mooncake Gift Set (S$88_ that comes with eight mini baked mooncakes (two pieces of each flavour) – Mini Baked Custard, Mini Baked Lychee with Rose, Mini Baked Low Sugar Lotus Paste Mooncake with Macadamia Nuts and Mini Baked Mocha Mooncake with Hokkaido Milk.
Guests may purchase Shang Palace’s mooncakes at the lobby of Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore from 28 July to 15 September 2016 and at retail booths located at shopping malls island-wide, including Takashimaya, Vivocity, Parkway Parade and more. For online orders, please visit slsfestive.oddle.me. Early bird offer of 25% savings till 21 July 2016, and online orders receive from 15% savings. For enquiries, please call (65) 6213 4398/4473 or email dining.sls@shangri-la.com.
If you have been following me on Instagram, you would have already known that the season for mooncakes (i.e. Mid-Autumn Festival) is coming up really soon and in the spirit of good fun, I have compiled what I would like to call a Mooncake Price Index (even though if we were to be pedantic, it is inaccurate to term it as that) for 2017. What I have done is basically gone through the price lists of all the hotel mooncakes that I have tasted so far to find out what the average price (GST inclusive) per baked and snowskin mooncake is - I have included both normal-size and mini-size ones for the sake of completeness. Do note that when there are multiple prices for different flavours, the cheapest price is utilised in this calculation.