Mid-Autumn Festival is almost upon us and that means looking forward to savouring the round-shaped pastries we all know and love as mooncakes. Here is 5 of the best and the most exclusive mooncakes you can find in the city and the Klang Valley this year.

Four Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur

This year’s mooncake season at the Four Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur is joined by legendary Malaysian-born designer Jimmy Choo. The collaboration is reminiscent of the extravagant Crazy Rich Asians look, featuring a custom bright pink totem box decorated with an elegant lavender peacock origami pattern in the centre. Each mooncake is packaged in its own box, stamped with an iconic Jimmy Choo design on the top. Try their luxurious snow skin mooncakes filled with musang king durian, or Valrhona chocolate with Himalayan salt and an auspicious egg yolk. For a more traditional kick, the Pu Er Tea with tangerine peel, and the classic white lotus seed paste baked mooncakes are both must-eats. Bar Trigona has also managed to sneak in a cheeky bit of Rum into the mooncake festivities with the sumptuous Trigona Rum Ki Tiki mooncake, as a way of raising a toast to the festive season.

The limited-edition Jimmy Choo mooncake gift boxes are priced between RM488 to RM588. To order visit their website here.

Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur

If you’re aiming to impress friends and family this year, Mandarin Oriental’s award-winning Lai Po Heen makes its return with the Golden Moon mooncake. Dusted completely in edible gold, the Golden Moon takes on two crowd-favourite flavours with a boozy twist: lotus and pandan, each with a single egg yolk at the centre for the utmost prosperity. Also making its debut this year is the sweet and savoury salted egg custard snow skin, as well as a pandan Gula Melaka chocolate mooncake for a more Malaysian flavour profile. Mandarin Oriental KL’s understated yet elegant eco-friendly bamboo box is also making a comeback this year. Each Premium Bamboo Box can hold up to six mooncakes, individually packed in red and gold floral motif boxes, and is beautifully wrapped with red silk for that final touch.

Mooncakes are priced between RM38 to RM68 and will be available for purchase online or at the pop-up in their hotel lobby. To place an order, email mokul-lpoheen@mohg.com.

Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur

Grand Hyatt is back with another stunning collaboration, this time featuring award-winning Malaysian fashion designer Melinda Looi. This year’s mooncake collection, The House of Shí Wǔ 十五之家, is a personal love letter to the rich and diverse Peranakan culture of Malaysia. An intricate miniature version of a traditional Peranakan home takes centre stage, presented as an avant-garde advent calendar stocked with a variety of gifts. Each shelf within the calendar is to be unboxed within the 15 days leading up to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Expect premium teas, fortune cookies, candies, a GHKL x ML designer scarf, scented candle and, of course, mooncakes. Each house comes with four classic mooncakes including a Shanghainese yam with single yolk and red bean, and a pandan and white lotus filling with a double yolk in the centre. The colourful collaboration makes a fun gift to give to friends and family, or yourself, and comes in a bold yet functional GHKL x ML canvas bag.

The House of Shí Wǔ 十五之家 is available for pre-order on the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur webstore at RM328 with early-bird prices on offer. For more enquiries, contact store.kuagh@hyatt.com.

The RuMa Hotel And Residences

Following last year’s praise-worthy duo, the RuMa Hotel and Residences have extended their mooncake menu to two selections. For purists, their duo pack carries a lotus filling with a double yolk centre, and a bamboo charcoal mooncake filled with black sesame paste. For those who are looking to venture outside their comfort zone, the RuMa’s box of four mooncakes offers a refreshing take on the traditional lotus flavour with durian lotus, cranberry lotus, and tiramisu lotus paste with chocolate lava. Also available is the assorted fruits and nuts filling that is packed with five types of kernels. These limited-edition mooncakes are packaged in a chic rattan box and wrapped beautifully in a supply batik bag enclosed in a weaved bamboo basket, courtesy of homegrown batik design house, FERN.

The mooncakes are priced at RM188 for two and RM258 for four, with early-bird discounts available from now until 31 August 2022.

Purchase the mooncakes here. For more enquiries call +603 2778 0751.

Banyan Tree Kuala Lumpur

Chocolate lovers will be pleased to hear that Banyan Tree Kuala Lumpur is continuing its chocolate mooncake series this year. Curated by BAKE by Banyan Tree’s executive pastry chef Carlos Valente, the Moonlight City mooncake box features a vibrant Mid-Autumn moon surrounded by the starry KL nightlife painted with dreamy purple and blue hues, also seen with the pretty motifs on each mooncake. Each box comprises six indulgent chocolate mooncakes with three different fillings to sample: coffee caramel walnut, green tea red bean, and lotus paste. The box of mooncakes also comes paired with a complementary tin of Harney & Sons Fine Tea’s yellow and blue herbal infusion tea.

The Moonlight City box is priced at RM352 and is now available for pre-order. Delivery and self-collection will be open from 15 August to 11 September 2022. For more information and to place an order, email bake-kl@banyantree.com or Whatsapp +6012 288 2135.