After Qixi comes the Mid-Autumn Festival, 16 must-try mooncakes in Nanning

Time has really flown by lately,

and in the blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is almost here!

The Mid-Autumn Festival of course would not be complete without:

a box of mooncakes.

It is a festive blessing,

a continuation of tradition,

a delivery of longing,

and a token of reunion.

Do you know Nanning people's favorite mooncakes?

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1. Golden Qilin (Mingyuan Hotel)

The "Golden Qilin" brand mooncake series from Mingyuan Hotel has gone through more than twenty years of innovation. This year, it has developed specialty healthy mooncakes: "Purple Sweet Potato Skin Low-Sugar Mooncakes," "Taoshan Skin Pumpkin Paste Mooncakes," "Cheese Skin Golden Sand Mooncakes" and other new varieties, combining the original traditional "Lotus Seed Paste Egg Yolk Mooncakes," "Low-Sugar Lotus Seed Paste Mooncakes," "Ham and Five Nuts Mooncakes" and more.

2. Xiaodulai (Nanning Hotel)

Nanning Hotel was established in 1952 and began handmade mooncake production. After decades of experience, Nanning Hotel mooncakes are deeply loved by guests. In November 1995, the "Xiaodulai" food street officially opened, marking the beginning of the "Xiaodulai" brand. As the influence of the "Xiaodulai" brand grew year by year, in order to further extend the brand, starting from 1997, Nanning Hotel mooncakes were officially named "Xiaodulai Mooncakes" and began entering the market.

3. Haoyouyuan (Haoyouyuan State Banquet Hotel)

Haoyouyuan mooncakes were created in 1999 by the Haoyouyuan State Banquet catering enterprise with genuine ingredients, offering you supreme quality from a professional source. Measured by state-banquet-level standards, its mooncake products uphold a century-old traditional craft, incorporating modern fashionable flavors, highlighting a "noble and elegant" brand culture, and using ingredients as close to nature as possible. All crusts and fillings are exclusively made with 30% less oil and 40% less sugar. During production, they first go through nine techniques of mixing, folding and resting, then are carefully baked with controlled heat, resulting in the most natural, healthy and nourishing mooncake. Haoyouyuan mooncakes' meticulous strict requirements for quality can bake heartfelt intentions into every ingenious creation, perfectly blending deliciousness, health, richness and naturalness.

4. Honglin Mooncakes (Honglin Hotel)

Master Huang, the head chef of mooncake production at Honglin Hotel, is the heir of Hepu Gongguan pastry-making. The pastry technique of Gongguan people is a school formed on the basis of the exquisitely famous Lingnan dim sum, combined with Western dessert-making techniques, known as the "Guinan Hepu School," and is a unique gem in the Chinese pastry world.

5. Liyuan Mooncakes

"Liyuan" originated from a state-owned old enterprise in the 1960s. Its food production methods have always retained the most traditional craftsmanship. That unique taste has accompanied the growth of several generations of Nanning people and has always been a memory lingering on Nanning people's tongues. Liyuan, in the areas around Nanning and throughout all of Guangxi, is a resounding "time-honored brand," has always been the leader in the Nanning mooncake market, has won regional and municipal famous quality product titles many times, and has been rated as one of Nanning's top ten mooncake brands. Liyuan mooncakes are the trustworthy mooncakes and high-quality mooncakes in the hearts of the people!

6. Xiyuan Mooncakes (Xiyuan Hotel)

Xiyuan mooncakes are high-quality products made by the Guangxi State Guesthouse. They are famous for their unique craftsmanship, pure taste and outstanding quality, and are the specially designated mooncakes for the autonomous region to present to distinguished guests from home and abroad. In 2001, in the region-wide mooncake hygiene and quality inspection, they topped the list of high-quality hygienic mooncakes due to their outstanding quality. In 2002, they won the title of "Consumers' Favorite Mooncakes" from the Municipal Consumers Association. In 2003, they received the honor of "Regional Quality Standard Product" from the Guangxi Bureau of Technical Supervision. In 2005 and 2006, they won the title of "Nanning Trustworthy Mooncakes" from the Nanning Consumers Association, and are a famous brand in Nanning.

7. Gongguan Huangji Mooncakes

Gongguan Huangji originated from the "Gongguan Huangji Bakery" in 1984, and in 2011 successfully registered Gongguan Huangji Food Co., Ltd. After more than 30 years of development, it has now become a large enterprise in Guangxi and well-known domestically, integrating mooncake research and development, production and sales.

8. Shenglong Mooncakes (Nanning Wharton International Hotel)

Shenglong mooncakes, originating from Guangxi Wharton International Hotel, were among the first batch of famous old-brand mooncake enterprises in Nanning in the 1990s. Upholding years of mooncake-making tradition, with pure and unique flavors, professional and exquisite craftsmanship, and fashionable and elegant gift box packaging, they have become one of the most favored famous quality mooncakes among consumers.

9. Jinchanyue Mooncakes (Jinhua Hotel)

Jinchanyue mooncakes come from Guangxi Jinhua Hotel, with premium ingredients and exquisite packaging, truly the first choice for high-taste individuals with strict demands for fine food, whether for gifting or personal enjoyment! Made with full effort by master chefs, with a unique recipe, carefully crafted, and excellent in taste, each one has a thin crust and beautiful filling, every bite smooth and delicately fragrant, with full quality assurance. For Mid-Autumn gifting, on a beautiful moonlit night, admiring the bright moon and savoring Jinchanyue naturally adds extra warmth and affection.

10. Xiangyi Mooncakes (Yongjiang Hotel)

The "Xiangyi" mooncake gift boxes use elegant date red and noble golden yellow as the main colors, forming a strong visual contrast, with simple and exquisite packaging full of artistic appeal. The Xiangyi mooncake gift box series includes Palace Imperial Moon, Imperial Consort Drunk Moon, Yongjiang Celebration, Xiangyi Imperial Collection, Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon and more, totaling 16 varieties.

11. Century Full Moon (Cross-Century Hotel)

The Century Full Moon series uses "culture" to annotate mooncakes and makes mooncakes with "heart." It is no longer simply a food, but a culture. From cultural and artistic connotations, it creates superior-quality, excellent-tasting Cantonese-style mooncakes of the Bagui land, following the modern dietary trends of "nourishing life, health, environmental protection and etiquette," endowing them with meticulous and ingenious care.

12. Tianfeiyuan Mooncakes (Tianfei Hotel)

In 2015, Tianfei Business Hotel grandly launched the "Tianfeiyuan" series with dozens of mooncake varieties and rich, diverse flavors.

13. Marriott Mooncakes (Marriott Hotel)

Nanning Xinwei Marriott Hotel mooncakes: the exquisite and novel mooncake gift boxes and excellent taste have made Marriott mooncakes achieve great success in sales, and they also won the title of "2010 Nanning People's Favorite Mooncake Brand."

14. Mengyue Mooncakes (Dream Island)

The "Mengyue" series mooncakes are made by master pastry chefs from Guangdong and Hong Kong, with exquisite packaging tailor-made by famous designers. With their unique recipe, advanced production techniques and equipment, good safety and hygiene conditions, and fashionable minimalist packaging design, they have entered the ranks of high-end mooncakes.

15. Guding Xiangyue

"Guding Xiangyue" upholds the concept of "tradition and health," continuing the traditional production techniques condensed from China's thousand-year cultural heritage. "Guding Xiangyue" wins with three traditional flavors of mooncakes: Jinhua Ham and Five Nuts, Egg Yolk and Lotus Seed Paste, and Pure White Lotus Seed Paste. In the making of Jinhua Ham and Five Nuts, premium olive kernels, high-quality melon seed kernels, dragon emperor almonds, Shanxi amber walnut kernels and high-quality sesame kernels are carefully selected and go through more than ten processes including strict selection, washing, blanching, roasting and a second selection, paired with Jinhua ham before being made into filling, and adhering to the traditional five-nut ratio, with a sweet and fragrant taste and a unique flavor.