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Hotels in town put on specialty mooncakes

Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011

The upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 12, hotels promote many sorts of gourmet moon cakes.

Legend Hotel Saigon: The hotel offers to customers its Crystal Jade mooncakes, from white lotus paste with double yolk, mixed nuts & ham to coffee paste with liquor truffle; and especially magnificent five gift set symbolic of the five elements of the universe. All are hand-made by chefs from Hong Kong using only premium ingredients with no preservatives. There are two designed kinds of gift boxes for guests to choose. For order, call 3827 2387.

New World Hotel Saigon: Dynasty Restaurant offers two deluxe boxes filled with delicate moon cakes of either four 250-gram cakes or eight 75-gram cakes of their choice. Guests can choose from six delicate flavors, including durian and coconut, lotus seed, coffee, pandan, taro and pork with mixed nuts. All moon cakes have a golden brown flaky skin and contain two egg yolks.

Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon: Guests can select moon cakes in traditional Chinese styles like pandan lotus single yolk, green tea or exotic creations of low sugar taro yuzu and grand ruby. Moreover, the hotel offers discounts: 5% for all Renaissance Dining Club Card members, 10% for any order of 10 boxes or more, 15% for any order of 50 boxes or more, and 20% for any order of 100 boxes or more. For orders, call 3822 0033 – ext: 2300.

InterContinental Asiana Saigon: Emperor kitchen Yu Chu’s moon cakes of this year come with a stylish red lacquer box which represents luck. Varieties of flavors including pure lotus seed, green tea, and pearl of harmony and nut cake await to celebrate this Mid-Autumn with you and your family.

Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers: Delectable authentic handmade moon cakes by the team of expert chefs at Sheraton Saigon use ingredients of the finest selection include fragrant flavors: red lotus, white lotus, pandan, green tea, jasmine and black sesame. A box of four large moon cakes or six mini moon cakes price from VND798,000nett per box.

Hotel Equatorial: This year, the hotel offers five kinds of boxes made from faux leather or gilded paper, and 13 different flavors like red bean, lotus seed, mango, dragon fruit, tiramisu, cheese and chocolate, and fin and scallops. Prices range from VND458,000 to VND1.298 million per box. For reservations, call 839 7777 ext. 8000.

Brodard bakery This year the bakery prepares 30 kinds of baked and sticky mooncakes with diversified traditional stuffing like barbeque chicken, shark fin, bird nest, green soy, durian, and green tea from the price of VND49,000 per cake. Customers can choose from a two to four and six cake-box. Hotline: 38276 310 or 0913 905 241

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