With the Mid-Autumn Festival around the corner, established restaurants in Shanghai are gearing up to showcase their latest mooncake creations. From classic flavors such as rose bean paste and black sesame to innovative twists like fish fillet with pickled vegetable mooncakes, and between all the varieties of fresh meat and vegetarian mooncakes, Shanghai's mooncake landscape offers delicious options to suit every taste bud!

De Xing Restaurant

With a history spanning over a century, De Xing Restaurant offers a range of mooncakes, from classic fresh pork with popping sauce to innovative flavors like scallion and beef and rose with nuts. The rose mooncake with nuts boasts a rich blend of Yunnan rose sauce, melon seeds, raisins, walnuts, kumquats, and pine nuts. Find them at:

- No 59 Yuyuan Old Street (inside Yuyuan Garden Malls)

- No 28 Yancheng Road (near South Xizang Road)

- No 297 Zhonghua Road (East Fuxing Road Exit)

Wang Bao He

Wang Bao He presents handmade Suzhou-style mooncakes, featuring flavors like fresh meat with meigancai (a dried pickled vegetable), shredded pork with garlic sauce, and classic whole crabmeat mooncakes, meticulously prepared to produce a crispy exterior and tender interior.

Location: No 603 Fuzhou Road

Sunya Cantonese Restaurant

Sunya Cantonese Restaurant is a hotspot for fresh pork mooncakes, including sauce-flavored fresh meat and black sesame-filled mooncakes.

Location: No 719 East Nanjing Road

Shao Wan Sheng

Shao Wan Sheng's signature mooncake delights patrons year-round with fresh meat and zaolu sauce. This year, they are introducing an innovative dry roasted cheese chicken thigh cake, combining zaolu and mozzarella cheese for a burst of flavors.

Location: No 414 East Nanjing Road

Shanghai First Foodhall

For a diverse mooncake selection from over 20 brands, visit Shanghai First Foodhall and explore options like Longhua Temple's vegetarian mooncakes and unique creations like cheese purple sweet potato lava mooncakes.

Location: No 720 East Nanjing Road

Guang Ming Cun

A beloved brand in Shanghai, Guang Ming Cun offers fresh meat mooncakes crafted through traditional baking methods. This year's selection includes date paste mooncakes with fruits, bean paste mooncakes, and fresh meat mooncakes with crabmeat.

Location: No 588 Middle Huaihai Road.

Song He Lou

Song He Lou presents mooncakes adorned with intricate Suzhou embroidery designs. Customers can savor traditional snacks and enjoy a hands-on experience with DIY Suzhou embroidery pieces.

Location: No 505 East Zhongshan Road Number Two

Longhua Su Zhai

A vegetarian restaurant inside Longhua Temple, Longhua Su Zhai is known for its noodles and vegetarian desserts. The restaurant offers a diverse mooncake selection featuring flavors like moss striped nuts, rose bean paste, and the newly launched macadamia nut. Experience a unique blend of flavors with large macadamia nuts and walnuts encased in a crunchy pastry.

Location: 1F, No 2787 Longhua Road

Xing Hua Lou

Xing Hua Lou's highlights this year include kumquat and Spanish ham mooncakes, blending Jiangxi kumquats with Yunnan and Spanish ham. Don't miss their salted egg yolk and meat floss mooncake for a delightful culinary experience.

Location: No 343 Fuzhou Road

Shen Da Cheng

Shen Da Cheng is unveiling an innovative array of new flavors this year, including braised fish fillet with pickled vegetable mooncakes, shredded radish and ham mooncakes, and bacon and cheese mooncakes.

Location: No 636 East Nanjing Road

Sources: "shrx_ishanghai" "shhuangpu" "shchangning" "shhplyj" "shnews990" "minhangnews" WeChat accounts, venues mentioned above