Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 falls on Friday, 25 September — and if you have looked at hotel mooncakes lately, you will have noticed the standard gift box now sits somewhere between $88 and $108. That is fine for a client gift. It is a lot for the box you open at home on the night.
So this list goes the other way: eight traditional Singapore bakeries, several of them older than the hotels, selling the mooncakes most families here actually grew up eating — at roughly half the hotel price. Tai Chong Kok has been hand-moulding lotus paste since 1935. Thye Moh Chan has been doing Teochew flaky pastry since 1943. Polar has been around since 1926.
Every price and every discount below was checked on the bakery's own order page on 18 August 2026.
> The one thing to act on today: Mdm Ling Bakery's early bird — the deepest discount on this page at over 30% off — ends on Wednesday 19 August 2026. Everything else on this list runs for weeks yet.
The discounts, ranked by how soon they close
| Cut-off | Bakery | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Aug 2026 — tomorrow | Mdm Ling Bakery | Over 30% off + $6 off 3 boxes, free delivery above $100 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | Thye Moh Chan | 15% off all Mid-Autumn sets with code EARLYBIRD |
| 22 Sep 2026 (delivery window) | Bread Garden | 20% off above $100 min. spend |
| No end date published | PrimaDéli | 20% off, already applied on site, no code needed |
| No end date published | Bengawan Solo | Online special prices ~10% below regular |
| Already stepped down | Old Seng Choong | 20–30% bulk tiers, 5-box minimum |
| No discount | Tai Chong Kok, Polar | List price — buy these for the baking, not the deal |
How much cheaper is this than a hotel box, really?
Concretely: a hotel four-piece box on our hotel mooncake list runs about $88 to $108. On this page, a four-piece box from PrimaDéli is $48.00 after its standing 20%, and Mdm Ling's Court of Peonies metal tin is $54.80 until Wednesday. Thye Moh Chan's sets land near $39.80 once the EARLYBIRD code is applied.
And if you only want mooncakes for your own table rather than a gift box at all, Bengawan Solo sells them singly — $9.45 for red bean, $10.35 for pure lotus. Four of those is under $45 and you choose the flavours.
Which one should you actually buy?
- For the most traditional mooncake in Singapore: Tai Chong Kok. No discount, 100% pure lotus seed paste, wooden moulds, Jinhua ham. This is the one older relatives will recognise.
- For someone who says they don't like mooncakes: Thye Moh Chan's Teochew yam. Flaky rather than dense, and it changes minds.
- For the best-looking gift under $60: Mdm Ling — but only until Wednesday.
- For buying exactly what you want, cheaply: Bengawan Solo, sold by the piece.
- For a group with clashing tastes: Bread Garden, with about 30 options and singles from $19.
- For the office: Old Seng Choong's bulk tiers, from 5 boxes up.











