Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at GOURMET
With exquisite Mid-Autumn Moon Cakes & Hampers

Hong Kong (22 Aug 2005)

Hong Kong's best boutique style fine food hall GOURMET has prepared some exquisite products for Hong Kong shoppers to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. GOURMET has assembled the highest quality, freshest and most delicious Mid-Autumn goodies with special recommendations that include Taiwanese Moon Cake Gift Boxes, Bright Moon Good Fortune Caskets, Cartoon Moon Cake Gift Tins, Mid-Autumn Specialty Fruit Hampers and many more!

Taiwanese Moon Cake Gift Boxes
Moon cakes are the essential treat for celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and GOURMET is offering the best and most unique in town! This year, GOURMET is exclusively carrying moon cakes from Taiwan's leading pastry maker, Kuo Yuan Ye. Established in 1867, Kuo Yuan Ye's pasty tradition dates back over 100 years, making it the ultimate example of Taiwanese bakery goods.

GOURMET is exclusively introducing 2 types of Kuo Yuan Ye Moon Cakes to Hong Kong including the limited edition Kuo Yuan Ye Assorted Golden Moon Cake Gift Box (HK$480/box), of which only 20 will be sold in Hong Kong. The Assorted Golden Moon Cake Gift Box consists of 3 tiers, with the first and third tiers offering lotus seed paste and longan Taiwanese style moon cake and the ever popular Cantonese style pineapple and black bean paste moon cake. The middle tier carries perilla plum, pineapple and raspberry cakes. Together with Kuo Yuan Ye's premium jade-decorated gift box packaging, this is the ideal gift for someone special this Mid-Autumn festival.

Kuo Yuan Ye's Moon Cake Gift Box (HK$180/box) contains different styles of cakes including melon & spinach cake, lychee & celery cake, peach & carrot cake and strawberry, coconut and pineapple cakes. Also, special Cantonese moon cakes are featured including black bean paste moon cake and date and walnut paste moon cake as well as the traditional lotus seed paste and longan moon cake. Kuo Yuan Ye's traditional recipes make for a special crust, and each delicacy is low in fat and sugar, making Kuo Yuan Ye moon cakes neither too sweet nor too greasy and the perfect treat for Mid-Autumn.

GOURMET is also offering Taiwan's famous Tian Ren Tea Moon Cake and Tian Ren Cha FOR TEA Moon Cake. Already famous for the high quality of its teas, Tian Ren Tea is also renowned for its delicious tea-flavoured moon cakes. The Tian Ren Tea Moon Cake Gift Box (HK$186/box) features 4 types of tea-flavoured moon cakes including: Green Tea Pumpkin with Mandarin, Green Tea Pumpkin with Lotus Seeds, Tea Pumpkin with Dates and Tea Pumpkin with Pine Nuts. The taste of refined green tea and strong black tea combined with delicate pumpkin flavour is unforgettable. Also available from Tian Ren Tea are fresh egg-yolk pastries wrapped in multi-layered sesame crust for elegant treats like Osmanthus Oo-long with Walnut and Green Tea Huai Shan with Red Bean.

Tian Ren Cha FOR TEA Moon Cake (HK$186/box) comes with a special Shanghai-style crust. The 4 types of Shanghai Style moon cakes are Green Tea Pumpkin with Pomelo, Tea Pumpkin with Dates, Tea with Grapes and Green Milk with Red Beans. This special gift box also comes with Black Tea Raspberry and Oo-long Blueberry pastry with fibres, catering to fitness conscious women. The crispy crust and high-fibre fruits, combined with the strong taste of tea, marks a new era in healthy and slimming moon cake.

For Mid-Autumn treats other than moon cakes, try Taiwanese Oriental Green Bean Cake (HK$149/box), which comes in 6 original and 3 mochi flavours. The Original Green Bean Cake is a traditional Taiwanese cake with a crispy crust covering delicious green bean paste while the new mochi flavours add a layer of cherry mochi to the green bean paste helping to cut the sweetness and adding to the texture of the cakes.

Bright Moon Good Fortune Casket
GOURMET is also offering Bright Moon Good Fortune Casket (HK$228/box) from Hong Kong. Bright Moon is a new brand in Hong Kong that is making waves by foregoing the traditional packing of moon cakes in favour of a classic style casket that is practical for re-use. The gift sets are filled with triple egg-yolk white lotus-seed moon cakes with premium and all-natural egg-yolk pastry from the Hu-pei province. Bright Moon lotus-seed paste is made with lotus-seeds from the Dong Ting Lake which are sweet but not greasy for the perfectly flavoured treat this Mid-Autumn.

Cartoon Moon Cake Gift Box
Disney cartoons have long been favourites of Hong Kong children. To celebrate the upcoming Grand Opening of Disneyland Hong Kong, GOURMET has brought in several cartoon moon cake gift boxes with various Disney characters, including the Winnie the Pooh Cartoon Gift Box (HK$99/box) with 9 Winnie-the-Pooh character mini-moon cakes. The Disney Princess Cartoon Gift Boxes (HK$198/box) feature 6 of Disney's classic princesses including Snow White, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Jasmine from Aladdin, for the perfect gift for Mid-Autumn princesses.

In addition to the popular Mid-Autumn festival lanterns, GOURMET is introducing more Mid-Autumn festival fun with Bunny mini moon cake handbags from Bright Moon (HK$59/bag). These cute gift sets contain a deck of popular magic cards from the United States and come in 3 colours: baby blue, pink and white, for a fun and colourful festival.

Mid-Autumn Specialty Fruit Hampers
Tired of searching for that perfect Mid-Autumn gift? Look no further, as GOURMET offers 4 types of fantastic specialty Mid-Autumn Fruit Hampers valued at HK$480, $1,280, $3,680 and $9,980 respectively. The Mid-Autumn Premium Fruit Hamper is loaded with a variety of premium specialty fruits, including Golden Pomelo, Japanese Premium Grape Gift Box, Alexander Grape Gift Box, Japanese Shizuoka Melon, Japanese Pear, Pitaya, Starfruit, Japanese persimmon, Japanese Michinoku Apple and more. Other luxury food hampers include Bright Moon Good Fortune Moon Cake Casket, two sets of Australian Sea Prince Abalone Gift Tins, Cheuk Deli Mushroom Gift Pack and Cheuk Deli Dried Scallop Gift Pack, Krug Champagne and more.

So light your lanterns and stock up for the best Mid-Autumn Festival ever at GOURMET!

About GOURMET
GOURMET is Hong Kong's first and best boutique style fine food hall. GOURMET features the highest quality and most exclusive international food products in peak seasonality, and some of the most personalised customer services. GOURMET also offers a new, refined, and fashionable concept of fine food shopping in the city centre for consumers who appreciate and enjoy quality and a luxurious lifestyle.

The 15,000 square-foot GOURMET is located in basement of Lee Gardens I, Causeway Bay. GOURMET offers a comprehensive selection of the highest quality, hardest to find and most delicious premium foods, as well as a range of complimentary services to customers including free parking (with purchase over HK$500), free call a taxi service, porter service, gift-wrapping, and home delivery and more.

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