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Hotels offer moon cakes for Mid-Autumn Festival
Update: 15:44, Thursday, Aug 23,2012 (GMT+7)
A Mooncake gift is not just an elegantly wrapped box with savory treats, but something which brings fortune and luck to those who receive them. To celebrate this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, let's go to some hotel in HCMC to see how they impress customers with their Mooncakes in not only traditional but modern flavors.

Hotel Equatorial HCMC

Apart from traditional flavors of roasted chicken, green bean or lotus cheese, for the very first time the hotel introduces a variety of snow skin mooncakes including Wulong tea, Pandan, Precious White and Choco Cranberry. The mooncakes will be presented in eight elegant boxes named Emerald, Sapphire, Prosperity, Harmony, Jasper, Pearl, Diamond and Golden Treasure.


Legend Hotel Saigon
The Legend Hotel Saigon presents signature baked mooncakes prepared by talented chefs from the Crystal Jade Palace, one of the best chain Chinese restaurant in Asia until September 30. You will be impressed with exciting choices such as Lotus Paste with Yolk, Lotus Paste with Champagne Truffle, Mixed Nuts & Ham, Red Dates & Wolfberry Paste, Conpoy Paste, Bean Paste, Plum Paste and especially gift sets called Premium Gold Treasure with four mooncakes adorned with delicate pieces of gold leaf and Magnificent Five symbolic of the five elements of the universe. All are handmade using only finest quality ingredients with no preservatives.


New World Hotel Saigon
The hotel is launching its mooncakes from 1 August to 30 September 2012 at Dynasty. Guest can choose between six delectable flavors: lotus seed, green tea, and coffee, pork with mixed nuts, custard and taro, all with double egg yolks. Price starts from VND 750,000 per box including 8 mooncakes (75 grams each) or 4 mooncakes (225 grams each) of your choice. Besides, the hotel unveils festive mid-autumn set menus from the Chinese kitchen served with a tender mooncake for dessert and a free flow of Chinese tea from VND 650,000 (excluding 10% VAT and 6% service charge).


Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon
The Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon introduces its mooncakes in traditional styles with creative tastes such as low sugar white lotus, green tea custard azuki, espresso walnut latte and pandan lotus single york. The cakes will be available from August 22 to September 22 with price starts from VND 818,000 (including tax) per box of 4 mooncakes.


Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers
The hotel offers the delectable authentic handmade moon cakes prepared by expert chefs. There is a selection of moon cakes includes the following fragrant flavors: white lotus, red lotus, black sesame, green tea, cranberry, pomelo and XO scallop. Moon cakes and gift certificates will be available for selling from August 27 to September 30 with the net price from 980,000 VND for one set of 4 cakes.


Sofitel Saigon Plaza
Gourmand Shop at the Sofitel Saigon Plaza offers a new range of moon cakes until September 30. Traditional flavors of white lotus seed paste baked with half salted egg yolk filling in golden-brown pastry skin continue to be main ingredients for this year’s moon cakes. To further enrich customers’ experience, three fascinating flavors of tiramisu, green tea and mixed nuts will be introduced. The shop provides a box of eight and a box of four moon cakes with a new cover design and prices start from VND 788,000++ per box with 4 cakes and VND 988,000++ per box with 8 cakes.


Windsor Plaza Hotel
Take your pick from delicious Mooncake fillings including roasted chicken, shark’s fin, salted yolk, green bean, coconut, lotus seed, taro, black sesame, green tea, and even vegetarian. This year, the Windsor Plaza Hotel is excited to introduce the exquisite Tiramisu Mooncake filled with sweet cream and chocolate. Good fortune comes from the 3 lucky numbers representing the prices and names of the Mooncake boxes available. This year features the 588 box – “Immediate Happiness followed by a Period of Prosperity”, the 688 box – “Riches Arise, Successes Arrive”, and the 888 box – “The Start of New Fortune and Overwhelming Love”.


Nick

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