OP10 • THEEDGE SINGAPORE
| SEPTEMBER 3, 2007
MOONCAKE SPECIAL
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nce again, it’s that time of year to light your lanterns and indulge in traditional (and not-so-traditional) mooncakes as you watch the sun set and the moon, full and at its brightest, take its place in the sky on Sept 25.
boxes will be produced. Prices start at $39 per box of eight pieces to $88 for the special premium mooncakes. Where: SomethingToGo at the Regent, Takashimaya and Caltex House. To place your order, please fax 6725 3242.
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Centennial Singapore 1 Conrad From the kitchen of award-winning restaurant Golden Peony comes baked mooncakes with double yolk as well as the snowskin variety that is filled with cranberry, jasmine or wolfberry. If you’re thinking of getting some for your corporate clients, there’s a special gift set that comes with four traditional baked double yolk mooncakes with Tie Quan Yin Tea Leaves Audrey Simon overdoses on mooncakes to write this annual review for $38. Prices for snowskin delicacies are priced at $38.90 for a box of eight pieces. Hotel to $34 for a box of eight pieces. 3 Shangri-La Where: Pastry Palette (lobby level) from Four Treasures is a box set compris- Where: Straits Café @ Rendezvous. 7am to 11pm and Millenia Walk counter ing baked mooncakes that are filled with Tel: 6335 1777. from 11am to 8pm. For advance or bulk white lotus seed paste (with or without orders, call 6432 7487 or email: sinci_fb@ yolk), black sesame seed paste with pan5 Sheraton Towers conradhotels.com. dan flavour and mixed nuts with chicken Chefs at Li Bai Cantonese restaurant ham while Imperial Treasure Box has eight have whipped up delicious mooncakes that mooncakes. Long after the last mooncake are a delicate mix of golden sultanas and 2 Raffles Hotel Singapore From the 120-year-old hotel, one has been devoured, the box makes a great chocolate chips. Delicious. Also, the box the can expect favourites such as the mini container for your trinkets. Prices range mooncakes are packed in can be used as a snowskin mooncake filled with juicy from $48.80 for a set of four pieces to $108 decorative tissue box for your home. champagne truffle and ganache or one for eight pieces in the Imperial Treasure Where: Li Bai Cantonese restaurant, at the hotel lobby, Takashimaya Basement that is fat with cognac truffle. There are Box collection. two new additions: pandan snowskin Where: Lobby of Shangri-La Hotel, Caltex 2 and the mooncake booth at Change Alwith organic dark chocolate and sun- House, Takashimaya, Junction 8, Tamp- ley. Tel: 6839 5623 or 6839 5636. flower seed and snow skin with mac- ines Mall and Jurong Point. adamia gianduja and sesame seed. Pric6 The Regent Singapore es are between $43 to $49 for a box of Rendezvous Hotel Pastry chef Alex Yen has been busy 4 four or eight. Sweet osmanther and melon seeds, coming up with new mooncake flavours to Where: At counters located along Raffles orange caramelised walnut and black for- “wow” his fans. This year, you can feast on Hotel’s North Bridge Road entrance and est mooncake with cherry chocolate truf- Valrhona 70 chocolate, bird’s nest, chestnut Ah Teng’s Bakery. Call 6412 1122 or email fle are just some of the delicious offerings powders and fine liqueurs. Because these raffleshotel.mooncake@raffles.com. by Rendezvous Hotel. Prices are from $32 mooncakes are handmade, only 200 to 300
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DELICACIES
A box of eight mooncakes will cost you $888. These are the beautiful and delicious Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne mooncakes. Vintage champagne is cleverly blended with hand-rolled truffles. It’s a challenge that has paid off because these mooncakes have been the talk of the town. Where: Cherry Garden. Tel: 6885 3541 or email: mooncake@mohg.com. Park Hotel 8 Goodwood Known for its durian creations, the hotel doesn’t disappoint with its Golden Mooncakes with Durian Paste. Instead of the usual baked or snowskin variety, the chefs use flaky pastry instead. Every bite is a delight and if you are not a durian fan (and who isn’t?), there are mooncakes filled with yam. Priced at $45.80 for a box of four. Where: At the hotel’s deli. Tel: 6730 1867 or 6730 1868. Order forms are available at www.goodwoodparkhotel.com. Mandarin 9 Marina Art lovers can have your art and eat it too. For the first time, Peach Blossoms will launch a limited edition Art Series mooncake box designed by pop artist Justin Lee. Each box will feature Lee’s signature style of using red paper cut-outs. Flavours include the green apple truffle, chocolate truffle and toffee truffle. Prices start at $45 for a box of eight pieces. Where: Peach Blossoms and Caltex House. Tel: 6845 1236 or email: peachblossoms. mms@meritus-hotels.com. E