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15 Mooncakes You Can Order Online
Get the iconic Mid-Autumn Festival treat delivered to your doorstep.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is just weeks away, falling on September 25 this year. Also known as the Moon Festival, the holiday is celebrated by East and Southeast Asian communities around the world, with traditions that varying from culture to culture. It’s a time for family gatherings, moon viewings, and, for some, sharing mooncakes, the rich, sweet pastries that have become one of the holiday’s most recognizable food traditions.
In years past, mooncakes were only found at Asian supermarkets, where they were typically imported, or at local Asian bakeries that made them on premises. In recent years, however, a new generation of bakers and pastry chefs has brought fresh ideas to the Mid-Autumn treat, offering both traditional variations and inventive spins inspired by global flavors and food trends.
With the holiday fast approaching, mooncakes have already started to crop up at Asian bakeries, grocery stores and even Costco, reminding us to grab a box — and fast, before they disappear as suddenly as they came. If your local aisles aren’t stocked or you just can’t get your hands on the treats in person, not to fret. No matter how far from fresh mooncake — or home — you might be, here’s where you can order the pastries online and get them shipped right to your door.
Founded in 1938 in Hong Kong, Kee Wah Bakery has withstood the test of time and become known for its mooncakes, Chinese bridal cakes and traditional Hong Kong-style pastries. Packed in an ornately illustrated but sturdy, no-fuss metal tin, this gift box includes four popular flavors: lotus seed, red bean, date and mixed nuts with ham.
Lady M sure knows how to dazzle when it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every year, the shop drops an impressively packaged limited-edition set that goes far beyond the classic metal tin. For 2026, the Moonlit Reverie Gift Set features a trio of custard flavors (pistachio, yuzu cheesecake and red bean) developed in collaboration with Kee Wah Bakery. The colorful mooncakes come housed in a round box topped with a spinning moon-shaped projector that lights up. This year, a bundle that includes an exclusive black sesame mochi mille crêpe cake is also available.
Eastern Bakery has been a San Francisco staple since 1924. Locals love it for its signature coffee crunch cake, but the bakery also makes mooncakes in-house, rather than importing them as some shops do. The bakery is one of the few establishments to offer its luscious, generously filled mooncakes year-round and ships a wide variety nationwide. Choose from flavors like lotus, winter melon, black bean and more. E-mail the bakery directly to place any online orders.
Based in Hong Kong, Meixin has been making mooncakes since 1987. In recent years, it launched a line of MX Lava Custard Mooncakes, which, for the most part, is a traditional take on the pastry but features a molten filling. It’s made with salted egg yolks that are baked, then roasted with French butter and coconut cream. When you slice into these little cakes, you won’t find the typical dried yolks, but instead, a creamy egg center that’s incredibly luscious and rich.
Food Network host Vivian Chan and her family order the mooncakes from the same Hong Kong bakery, Wing Wah, every year. “The box even comes with a QR-coded seal, so you can ensure you’re getting authentic mooncakes from that particular bakery,” she says. The yearly sweets remind her of “sitting outside with my family in early fall when there’s just a nip in the air. When we were kids, we would celebrate the festival with paper lanterns, and we’d run around in the backyard. It’s very nostalgic for me.”
Founded by Taiwanese American baker Amy Hsiao, Brooklyn’s Kitsby specializes in Asian-inspired sweets and baking kits, such as matcha cream puffs and hotteok cookies. For the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, Hsiao crafts mooncakes by hand the traditional way using lye and golden syrup, but the fillings lean into trending ingredients. Along with the returning All Star Mooncake Set, Hsiao has added a Modern Teahouse collection featuring mooncakes imbued with Earl Grey, green, or pu’er tea. Both come in a box illustrated by @_thejuiceboxclub.
Get a variety of mooncakes from another longstanding bakery, Sheng Kee, which was founded in 1948 in Taiwan but only went online a few years ago. The bakery offers a wide range of sweets — from its popular Green Bean Puff Pastry to its vibrant Autumn Fruit Mooncakes — as well as more traditional mooncakes packaged in its recognizable red box.
Beloved New Orleans bakery Dong Phuong is known for a number of baked goods, including its king cake and seasonal mooncakes. The James Beard Award-winning Vietnamese shop turns out classic variations that span sweet (mung bean, lotus root) and savory (abalone). You can order a sampler pack with traditional golden-crusted mooncakes, snowskin mooncakes and Vietnamese pia mooncakes, or create your own assortment.
Malaysian-born pastry chefs Mogan Anthony and Seleste Tan combine their fine-dining background with the flavors of Southeast Asia at their New York City bakery Lady Wong. Their annual mooncake sampler comes with six snowskin mooncakes that marry a traditional white lotus filling with flavors such as pandan custard, Sumo mandarin and matcha pistachio. It also includes four pineapple shortcakes.
Annie Wang started baking in an effort to develop recipes that fit her plant-based lifestyle. Her vegan baked goods became a hit around the Bay Area (she once recreated the almond cookie from “Everything Everywhere All At Once” for its star Michelle Yeoh), and she now ships nationwide. Her vegan mooncakes forgo lard, eggs and other animal ingredients for potatoes and other secret swaps. Wang’s 2026 Mid-Autumn Mooncake Gift Set features greatest hits from years past, including black sesame with cornflake crunch and raspberry-almond mung bean, along with a new white chocolate latte flavor. Her vegan version of a traditional salted egg yolk and lotus paste mooncake is also available individually.
Taiwanese tea shop Té Company specializes in mooncakes from the island nation. The round, white pastries have a soft, flaky crust that surrounds a lightly sweetened mung bean or red bean paste — half come plain and half contain a salted egg yolk. This year, owner Elena Liao launched a savory scallion mooncake inspired by the ones she grew up eating in Taiwan. You can also purchase oolong teas specifically chosen to pair with the pastries.
Thảo Bui — who runs Ăn Xôi and Vietnamese spice company Vân Vân with partner Duy Võ, learned to make mooncakes from her mom, a professional baker. They first shared the seasonal treats with family and friends and started selling them at their New York City pop-up as interest grew. For their fourth mooncake season, the couple is offering nine new flavors available in various gift sets. Some, like the banana coconut, orange pomelo and coconut pork floss, are inspired by ingredients from their home country, while others, such as the hazelnut and strawberry matcha, pay homage to trending flavors.
Sunmerry was founded in Tokyo in 1946 before expanding to Taiwan, followed by the United States. With locations in New Jersey (Edison, Fort Lee) and California (Monterey Park, Mira Mesa), the bakery is known for a wide range of Asian baked goods, including its pineapple cakes and annual mooncake collection. This set features miniature versions of both modern and traditional mooncakes in flavors such as lotus seed, taro, mocha coffee, ube milk and more, while a second set includes an add-on of Sunmerry’s signature mini pineapple tarts — all packaged in an elegant blue box.
Located in the heart of New York City’s Theater District, this charming cafe from baker Gary Chan offers creative drinks (brown sugar tea latte) and unique pastries (mango hazelnut hojicha cream puff), including adorable macarons. Its annual mooncake collection is fun both visually and flavor-wise, and the set is finally available for shipping this year. It contains four mooncakes in flavors such as strawberry taro with mango custard and black sesame sweet potato, plus two macarons, all housed in a box illustrated with a family of alpacas — the shop’s mascot — enjoying a holiday feast.
Open since 1991, Fay Da is a longtime staple in New York City’s Chinatown that churns out a variety of Cantonese baked goods, including mooncakes every fall. If you’re looking to try several flavors, consider a box of assorted minis, available in the traditional golden pastry or with lava fillings. Along with matcha, which has become a trendy filling flavor over the last few years, Fay Da makes another tea-flavored mooncake using pu-erh, an aged, fermented tea from China’s Yunnan region.
