Some of the Most Luxurious Mooncakes the World Has Ever Seen

Step into a world where culinary excellence meets skilled craftsmanship. Here are some of the most luxurious mooncakes we’ve seen in recent years.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, numerous hotels and restaurants around Bangkok are offering their renditions of the sumptuous mooncakes. These mooncakes are more than treats, for their special ingredients can make them come at a staggering price. From our neighbouring countries to a greater, global scale, we explore some of the most luxurious mooncakes in recent years.

Golden Moments

Singapore’s durian confectionary shop Golden Moments made a big headline in 2020 with the $655 box of mooncakes. The delicacies were covered in gold, with five layers of 24K gold foil and branded 99.9 24K Pure Gold Bar designed by SK Jewellery. The 24K Truffle Mao Shan Wang Snowskin was a truffle durian mooncake that brought together the two bold ingredients.

Royal Caviar Club

Hong Kong’s Royal Caviar Club showed the world the first caviar mooncake in 2020 and we went crazy for it. The snow skin mooncakes were filled with 10 grams of Royal Cristal Caviar, Australian winter black truffle, and truffled potato. These chunks of sweet, salty, and crunchy treats were sold in a box of four for $230. Royal Caviar Club also came up with another caviar mooncake this 2023, with four distinct flavours, through a collaboration with Master Pâtissier Gael Majchrzak: French dark chocolate with black truffle, Hokkaido cheesecake, Italian strawberry, and Madagascar vanilla.

Leong Yin Pastry

most luxurious mooncakes — Image credit: Malaysia Book of Records

Malaysian bakery shop, Leong Yin Pastry, broke the country’s record in 2017 with the most expensive commercial mooncake sold at $926. The Zhen Yue mooncake weighed 1.2 kg and measured 17.5 cm and 4 cm thick. Crafted by Dr Leong Kok Fai, the mooncake was made with 16 premium ingredients like ginseng, bird’s nest, cordyceps, and 24K gold flakes.

Loewe

Outside of Asia, Loewe took a minimalistic approach with mooncakes in a wooden box. In 2019, Loewe’s extravagant mooncakes featured the brand’s logo and came with a mooncake moulding block — just in case you wanted to make your own Loewe mooncake at some point.

Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton went all in with its Chocolate Cloud Monogram mooncakes in 2019. The tall vertical box opened up into a blue hot-air balloon and a drawer compartment. Resembling the iconic LV trunk, the mooncake box contains four beautifully wrapped chocolate hybrid mooncakes.

[Hero and featured image credit: Royal Caviar Club]

This story first appeared on Prestige Online Thailand.

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