Singapore Food Blog

When Raffles Hotel launched the legendary champagne truffle snowskin mooncake in 1994, it triggered a wave of modern mooncakes with novel flavors. Since then, every Mid-Autumn Festival has been marked with exquisite mooncake creations that marry tradition with innovation.

To set you in the mood for Mid-Autumn Festival 2010, here are 12 mooncakes you don't want to miss in 2010.

Seafood fans can now dive into the newly launched Harvest of the Sea buffet at the Concorde Hotel. The dinner buffet takes place at Spices Cafe, featuring a fabulous oceanic spread that includes prawns, scallops, oysters and crabs.

Every year, fruit pastry fans look forward to two things at Goodwood Park Hotel. One is the Durian Fiesta where pastries and cakes made with D24 durians fly off the shelves. The other would be the fruity snowskin mooncakes during Mid-Autumn Festival.

These fruit-themed mooncakes are available in four flavors: Cempedak, apple caramel, D24 durian and mango with pomelo.

Things are getting interesting at Café del Mar, one of Singapore's hottest beach bars. The restobar at Siloso Beach, Sentosa, has unveiled a brand new food menu with an extensive range of Mediterranean and international cuisine. Apart from sunbathing and sipping on a Mojito at the swim-up bar, you can now enjoy a sumptuous seafood meal while admiring a panoramic view of the sea.

The Mooncake Festival 2010 falls on September 22. In the month leading up to the actual day, we would be featuring a series of mooncakes from various hotels and merchants that we have tried and tasted.

Sparking off the mooncake series is the floral-inspired snowskin mooncakes selection that makes its debut this year at The Fullerton Hotel.

A little eatery that goes by the name Stevo's Salads n Such has opened along Upper Thomson Road. While this casual restaurant is small in size, the fine quality of its Australian fares would certainly put its more established Western counterparts to shame.