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The Best Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncakes Shipped To Your Door
BY JENESSA ABRAMS
Sheng Kee
Fall is the season for the Chinese Mid-Autumn festival — also known as the Mooncake Festival — so load up on fresh mooncakes from a bakery like Sheng Kee.
Located across Northern California, Sheng Kee Bakery offers many giftboxes like the Autumn Fruit Mooncakes gift box for $43.95 with mango, banana, lychee, and mulberry flavors.
Little Moon Bakehouse
Formerly known as Annies T Cakes after owner Annie Wang, Little Moon Bakehouse offers vegan versions of classic Asian pastries.
Located in Oakland, California, the bakery offers a Year of the Dragon box for $62 with four full-sized mooncakes in black sesame, mung bean, brownie, and mung bean pineapple.
Lady Wong
Lady Wong is one of the best bakeries in NYC, and in honor of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the bakery is selling mooncakes with nationwide shipping.
The Baked Mooncakes Gift Box features four mooncakes in pandan and coconut, matcha, tangerine and caramelized white lotus, and wild melon seeds for $63.38.
Kee Wah Bakery
Founded in Hong Kong, Kee Wah Bakery now has locations across California and offers nationwide shipping of pastries made exclusively in Hong Kong.
The bakery’s mooncake offerings range from $38 to $133 with flavors including yolk custard, earl gray, white lotus seed and red bean, or pineapple and ham with nuts.
Kitsby
Located in Long Island City, Kitsby not only sells mooncake gift boxes but also kits that provide home cooks the tools and ingredients they need to create the pastries.
The $55 All-Star Mooncake Box includes four mooncakes in flavors like black tea and salted egg yolk, green tea and azuki, black sesame, and white lotus paste and salted egg yolk.