Where To Get The Best Mooncakes For Mid-Autumn Festival

by MATT CHAU

In the canon of traditional Chinese desserts, the mooncake is the most decadent and storied of them all. Golden-baked, round in shape, and filled with sweet lotus seed paste encasing salted duck egg yolks representing the moon. For centuries, these rich delicacies have been served during Mid-Autumn Festival — on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month when a full moon emerges at night — as a ritual offering to the mythical moon goddess of immortality, Chang E. They were a favourite of Empress Dowager Cixi and, as folklore goes, an essential tool of the Ming revolutionaries, who used them to smuggle secret messages while overthrowing the Mongolian rulers of China at the end of the Yuan dynasty.

Today, mooncakes remain an essential part of Chinese culture, lavishly packaged and shared with family and friends as a symbol of completeness and reunion. While time-honoured recipes hold strong to tradition, these days you’ll find mooncakes of every variety.

Ahead, we round up where to buy the best mooncakes in Hong Kong for the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival, which lands on October 6, 2025.

STEAK KING

If you’re looking for something different, Steak King’s got you covered. The artisanal butchery unveils the Wagyu Beef Wellington Mooncake, wrapped in buttery puff pastry and packed with tender Wagyu beef and rich mushroom duxelles. Every box contains four individually crafted mooncakes, delivered frozen and ready to bake, with full cooking instructions for a golden, crisp finish.

HK$888 at www.steak-king.com

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