Here’s our pick for the best sets for you to choose as gifting options, or just for keeps!
Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur x Melinda Looi
Last year, they partnered with renowned fashion designer Melinda Looi to create multifunctional and fashionable mooncake sets that could also be used as Grand Gambit sets and Jade Tote bags.
This year, they continue their partnership with a box set called ‘‘The House of Shí Wǔ’, which resembles an intricate wooden structure of a miniature house that moonlights as a multipurpose box with secret compartments to open.
Besides the four mooncakes, you’ll find it comes with a whole lot of goodies including a GHKLxML mini mooncake mould keychain, a designer scarf, a scented candle, and more. On top of it all, it’s packaged in one gorgeous bright red canvas bag! The set retails at RM288 for early birds, the original price is RM328.
Get your mooncakes here.
Four Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur
Remember when Sharpay sang “Fetch me my Jimmy Choo flip flops” in High School Musical 2? So sue us, we’re old. If you can’t afford a pair of shoes from the acclaimed designer, this is the next best thing.
Only 1,000 gift boxes are available and each comes in a bright pink totem box, with smaller boxes inside featuring individual illustrations by the designer himself and each contains a mooncake with traditionally baked or snow skin options.
“The Mid-Autumn full moon represents completeness and good luck in Chinese culture. On this joyful occasion, we are reunited with our beloved family and friends,” explains Jimmy Choo.
“The Four Seasons mooncake gift box reflects these feelings of happiness, good fortune and abundance.” The boxes are priced between MYR 488 to MYR 588.
Order your Jimmy Choo illustrated mooncakes here.
Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur
The Mandarin Oriental’s award-winning Lai Po Heen is a swanky Cantonese restaurant, inspired by the ancestral homes of 19th Century Chinese tycoons.
Each year, this restaurant churns out fantastic mooncakes, and this year is no different. Purchase six mooncakes to receive their gif box which is simple yet tasteful: it is made from bamboo and wrapped in red silk. Splurge on ‘The Golden Moon’, a luxurious mooncake made with edible gold, available in
Salted Egg Custard Snow Skin and Pandan Gula Melaka Chocolate flavours. Mooncakes are priced between RM38 and RM68. Receive 15% off when you purchase their mooncakes before 31 July 2022.
Buy the mooncakes from Mandarin Oriental here.
W Kuala Lumpur
Unlike other traditional hotels, the W is known to have a cutting-edge and contemporary design in its architecture, which is also reflected in their mooncake sets.
Their Moonlit Fever Mooncake Collection 2022 comes in a keepsake gift box with a choice of Emerald Green or Sunrise Orange colours and retro designs.
Up the ante on your mooncake party with a drink or two by getting your hands on their Moonlit Fever Mixology Kit that includes two mooncakes, two alcohol miniatures, a bar spoon, jigger, and signature cocktail ingredients.
Two other gift box options are also available. Prices range from RM238 to RM268 per box. Get 25% off when you purchase from 1 July to 15 August 2022.
Purchase your own set here.
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