Mid-Autumn Festival | Our Fav 2019 Mooncakes

Content Editor: Alice On

On the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, all of East Asia comes together to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although, in the last 3000 years, traditions across Asia have diversified (for example I was surprised when Daisy mentioned in Taiwan, BBQ has become a staple aspect of the festivities) at the heart of it all is family and friends coming together in thanksgiving. One of the hallmarks to this increasingly international holiday is the delectable mooncakes. Carrying on the traditions of our Hong Kong hometown my mom would always say their round shape, just like the moon brightest and roundest on this day, symbolizes completeness and reunion. The sharing and eating of round mooncakes among family members during the week of the festival signifies the completeness and unity of families.

With an ocean separating us from our family, it became a new way to be together, under the same sky, under the same moon, thinking of each other. Sometimes we cannot appreciate what we have until its gone, in some instances in can be a person far away, a moment in time that has slipped away or perhaps longing for something still to come. Daisy recalls her mom always buying the same mooncake. She’s never thought of it much as a child but buying a box now to enjoy in Canada, it teases out a connection for her too - a moment shared with a loved one far away. 

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Prada

This year we got some special deliveries to make this holiday a little sweeter. From our friends at Prada we were spoiled with delicate Marchesi Milano chocolates in the perfectly round box glowing with the vivid yellow banana print that first surfaced in September 2010 when Miuccia Prada presented her SS11 collection in Milan.

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Louis Vuitton

We also got our first gift from Louis Vuitton. Another notable part of celebrating the holiday in Hong Kong is filling the night with glowing lanterns - some for thanksgiving some for positive wishes towards the future. The tall box opens vertically to release a blue hot-air balloon paper form in a sea of clouds reminiscent of the illustrations in the historic treasures of Asia. Inside the bottom a slide-out compartment, emulating LV’s classic trunks, are four delicately-wrapped chocolate hybrid mooncakes from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Taipei).

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Ritz-Carlton

Our last special moon cake is from the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore. This set of traditional baked White Lotus Seed and Black Sesame mooncakes come presented in a luxe red box designed to be reused as a stationery or jewellery box after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The transfer of messages brings to mind another popular legend about mooncakes playing a part during the Han Chinese's uprising against the ruling Mongols in which the Han Chinese used traditional mooncakes to conceal the message that they were to rebel on Mid-Autumn Day.

This red box holds a miniature photo frame, and three-slot pen holder, while the versatile top box and four side drawers double as storage compartments for all your stationery needs.

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