6 Best Places to Buy Mooncakes in Sydney For Mid-Autumn Festival 2022

The Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture, and also in parts of South-East Asia and even Australia!

Traditionally, it is celebrated by lighting beautiful lanterns of all shapes and sizes, which represents beacons to light the way for prosperity and luck. This year, Mid-Autumn Festivals falls on 10 September.

Mooncakes also play a large part in the festival (our favourite part) - a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed paste. Round mooncakes complement the harvest moon in the night sky at the Mid-Autumn Festival

Whether it's been a part of your tradition or you’re really just craving a mouthful of mooncake, we've put together the top spots where you can get your hands on a box of this delicacy during Mid-Autumn Festival season in Sydney:

2. Thai Kee IGA - Haymarket

3. Taipei Dainty Bakery - Chatswood Market

4. Taste of Shanghai - Burwood

5. Stella’s Sweets - Hurtsville

6. Emperor’s Garden Cakes & Bakery - Sydney Chinatown

We put this up first, because Uncle Jim - founder of Jim’s Malaysia - makes mooncakes once in a blue moon. That being said, his mooncakes can disappear and get sold out in a flash. He offers a variety of exciting flavours that you will surely look out for every year. Jim’s Malaysia makes three options for the crust, multi-layered pastry, crumbly biscuit and the mochi style. You may opt for their Butter Cookie mooncake which is a molten cheese-based crispy cheesecake with your filling of choice if you want the traditional mooncake and Charcoal Durian mooncake if you are feeling more adventurous. 

They also recently introduced their DIY kit that gives you a pack of ingredients to make eight delightful mooncakes. Their prices start at $25. Get yours quickly by sliding in their DMs on Instagram @jimsmalaysia. 

Thai Kee IGA, the largest supermarket in Sydney's Chinatown, is always well stocked with boxes of mooncake for the mid-Autumn festival each year. Selling mooncakes from well-loved brands from around the world like GODIVA, Hong Kong Peninsula mooncakes and Sunny Hills, Thai Kee IGA is a one-stop shop for mooncakes.

Taipei Dainty Bakery is a family owned baker in Chatswood specialising in Taiwanese cakes and desserts all made and baked from scratch. One of their menu highlights are their mooncakes which have a Taiwanese influence, with jujube, mung beans and pineapple like paste. 

Taste of Shanghai is a home for authentic and delicious Chinese flavours. This restaurant introduces Chinese cuisine from culinary techniques used for 400 years, this makes their mooncakes authentic and special. Other than the classic lotus root filling they also have savoury options like pork mince and pickles or even this year's special mooncake which is a lil boujee - puff pastry mooncakes with abalone and pork.

This last one is the most underrated from the list. Stella’s Sweets’ baked goods have their own charm since they are all baked from home! Apart from customized cakes, they also have uniquely designed mooncakes. They offer a box of 6 with the following flavors: Classic Salted egg, Matcha Jasmine, Raspberry Rose Lychee, Chocolate Praline, Coconut

Pineapple and  Black Sesame. These flavours will surely make you enjoy every bite! The best part is you can pick up your box of mooncakes from Hurstville or have them delivered to your own home.  

Emperor's Garden Cake & Bakery, a cult favourite of Chinatown, has been serving Sydneysiders mouth-watering Asian sweets since 1979. They're well-known for their signature cream puffs, which draw long lines to the shop on the daily. Apart from cream puffs, their mooncakes are also popular due to their authentic and rich flavour.

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