Not everyone wants a $108 hotel box, and Singapore's old bakeries sell the mooncakes most families here grew up eating at roughly half the hotel price. We re-checked all eight brands' own order pages on 19 September 2026, six days out, and the season has started closing rather than discounting: Thye Moh Chan has pulled its entire mooncake range off its webshop, Old Seng Choong's collection is marked FULLY SOLD OUT on its own site, Polar's Mid-Autumn page now lists nothing at all, and Mdm Ling's $57.80 Court of Peonies tin has gone with them. What you can still order: Tai Chong Kok boxes of 4 from $62 with both snow-skin weekends open, Bengawan Solo singles from $9.45, Bread Garden singles from $14, PrimaDéli four-piece boxes from $54 on delivery only, and four Mdm Ling sets until Tuesday 22 September. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Friday 25 September.
Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 falls on Friday, 25 September, and with six days to go Singapore's old bakeries are closing rather than discounting.
> Quick view: still fully open, Tai Chong Kok boxes of 4 from $62 and Bengawan Solo singles from $9.45. Already gone: Thye Moh Chan's webshop range, Old Seng Choong (fully sold out) and Polar's mooncake page. Mdm Ling closes Tuesday 22 September.
The oldest name on this list, the most traditional mooncake in Singapore, and after our 19 September checks the only bakery here with its entire range still open to order. Tai Chong Kok has been baking Cantonese mooncakes since 1935, across 90 years and three generations, and it is one of the very few bakeries left here that still cooks its own lotus paste from 100% pure lotus seeds with no filler and no preservatives, formed in the same style of wooden moulds used at the original Sago Street shop in Chinatown. PRICES, EVERYTHING SOLD BY THE BOX OF 4, AND IT STARTS LOWER THAN THE SIGNATURE SUGGESTS: the cheapest boxes are Red Bean 豆沙 and Green Bean 豆蓉 at $62, then Traditional Lotus 红莲 (reduced sugar), the Vegetarian plain lotus and Green Bean with one yolk at $66, White Lotus 白莲 (less sugar) and Black Sesame 黑芝麻 at $68, Traditional Lotus with one yolk $70, 8 Treasures 八宝 $72, White Lotus with one yolk $72, Traditional Lotus with two yolks $74, White Lotus with two yolks $76, and Traditional Lotus with four yolks $82. Every one of those was still listed on 19 September, with nothing marked sold out. THE SIGNATURE: Mixed Nuts (金腿) is $76 for a box of 4, hand-mixed so the ingredients don't break up, and built around high-quality Jinhua ham, which is what gives it that savoury-sweet bite older relatives recognise instantly. The Oyster Yolk Mooncake (蚝黄腿月) box of 4 is $78 and was released on 11 September 2026. IMPORTANT, HOW THE SNOW-SKIN WORKS: Tai Chong Kok does not sell snow-skin off the shelf. It runs as dated weekend pre-orders with collection or delivery from 1pm, and as of 19 September both of the last two slots are still open, 19 to 20 September and 22 to 23 September 2026, priced $62 to $82 a box of 4 (red bean $62, plain lotus $66, black sesame $68, up to lotus with four yolks at $82). Pick your date when you order: the 5 to 6 and 12 to 13 September weekends have already closed, and after 23 September there is no snow-skin left this season. THE $2.50 TRADITION NOBODY LISTS: alongside the boxes, Tai Chong Kok still sells the piglet biscuits (猪仔饼) that Singaporean children have been given at Mid-Autumn for generations. Piglets in a Plastic Basket are $2.50 for two, Piglets in a Bamboo Basket $6.50 for two, a packet of 4 Piglets $4, Golden Piglets in red bean or lotus $6.50, and the stamped Picture Cookies (公仔饼) at $4 small or $5 large. These are the cheapest Mid-Autumn buy on this entire page by a wide margin, and the right answer if you want something for the children rather than another gift box. NO DISCOUNT: there is no early bird here, and there never really is. This is the one on the list you buy for the baking, not the bargain. Outlets include Chinatown, Jurong East, Yishun, Punggol and Tampines, with islandwide delivery and self-collection via its online store. Online orders for the baked boxes can be collected or delivered until 23 September 2026, two days before the festival.
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The one everybody already knows, and still the cheapest entry point to a proper mooncake in Singapore. Bengawan Solo sells baked mooncakes INDIVIDUALLY rather than forcing you into a gift box, which is the single most useful thing on this page if you just want two mooncakes for the family on the night. ONLINE PRICES (most items show a special price about 10% below the regular one): Red Bean Paste $9.45 (U.P. $10.50), Vegetarian $10.35 (U.P. $11.50), Pandan Skin Pure Lotus Seed Paste $10.35 (U.P. $11.50), White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk $13.05 (U.P. $14.50). ASSORTMENTS, ALL FOUR STILL LISTED ON 19 SEPTEMBER: Joy Assortment $44.10 (U.P. $49.00), Bounty Assortment $48.15 (U.P. $53.50), Fortune Assortment $48.60 (U.P. $54.00) and Prosperity Assortment $51.30 (U.P. $57.00). The range listed 31 mooncakes in total on 19 September, and the minis are cheaper than we previously said: Mini Pure Lotus Seed Paste is $3.80, the Mini Pandan, Banana, Strawberry and Green Tea versions are $4.10, the yolk minis $4.60 and the Mini Durian $4.80, none of them discounted. WHY IT STILL MATTERS: four single Bengawan Solo mooncakes come to under $45 with the flavours entirely up to you, which undercuts most four-piece gift boxes on this page while letting you skip the flavours nobody in your house eats. THE DEAL: the online special prices are the discount, roughly 10% below the shop price, with no code needed and no end date published, which on 19 September made Bengawan Solo one of only two bakeries here still selling its full range with a live discount. BEST FOR: buying for your own table rather than as a gift, and for anyone who wants exactly two mooncakes and no packaging.
Online special prices roughly 10% below regular: Joy Assortment $44.10 (U.P. $49.00), Prosperity Assortment $51.30 (U.P. $57.00), Red Bean single $9.45 (U.P. $10.50). No end date published.
The most choice of any brand here, with 50 different mooncakes and sets spanning baked, snow-skin, mochi-skin and pastry-skin, which makes it the easiest single order when you need to please a group with wildly different tastes. GIFT SETS: Diamond Grandeur baked set $87, Sapphire Grandeur $84, Emerald Grandeur $80, Snowy Skin Diamond Grandeur 4-piece $74, Celestial Mochi Set $72, Elegance Set $72, Premium Set $62, Classic Set $58 and Traditional Set $56. SMALLER: Premium Duo $34, Classic Duo $28, and a Yolk Pastry box of 4 at $28. SINGLES FROM $14, which is where Bread Garden really wins, and the entry price is lower than the flashier flavours suggest. The cheapest tier is $14 and it is the classic one: Red Bean, Premium Lotus, Pandan Lotus, Green Tea Lotus, Durian Lotus and the Vegetarian lotus-and-melon-seed are all $14 each. Then $15 for Premium Lotus Single Yolk, Shanghai and Charcoal Premium Lotus; $16 for Premium Lotus Double Yolk, Mixed Nuts (Wu Ren) and the Black Sesame, Durian Lotus, Green Tea and Tangy Mango snow-skins; $18 for the Berry Nice and Only You snow-skins. The $19 tier is where the unusual flavours sit, including Onde Onde, Lychee Roselia Blast, Mochi Matcha Azuki, Cacao Divine, Coco Lava and the mochi pastry-skins, with Macadamia Nuts at $20, the Golden Royale custard at $22 and the Golden Emerald bakes at $22 to $23. The Signature Premium Mao Shan Wang Durian Snowskin is $28 single or $56 for the set. SOLD OUT SINCE OUR LAST CHECK: three of the 50 have gone, the Green Tea Lotus baked single at $14 and the Tangy Mango ($16) and Berry Nice ($18) snow-skins. The other 47 were all still available on 19 September, including every gift set. THE DEAL HAS CHANGED, AND NOT IN YOUR FAVOUR: the 20% off above $100 early bird we recorded in August has ended and is gone from the site. What runs now is 10% OFF all mooncakes with a minimum purchase of $150, ending 25 September 2026 or while stocks last. FREE DELIVERY ALSO MOVED, AND IT CLOSES FIRST: islandwide delivery is free only on single orders of $200 or more placed before 20 September 2026, which is the Sunday of the final week, and below that a flat $20 delivery charge applies per location. HALAL: Bread Garden describes itself on its own site as a Halal-certified bakery, and the MUIS halal register lists five Bread Garden premises, so it is one of three brands here (with PrimaDéli and Polar) you can point a Muslim colleague at without a phone call first. BEST FOR: mixed groups and office orders, though with the discount halved and the minimum raised, a small order may come out cheaper at PrimaDéli, whose 10% needs no minimum spend.
10% off all mooncakes with min. spend $150, ending 25 Sep 2026 or while stocks last. Free islandwide delivery only on $200+ single orders placed before 20 Sep 2026, otherwise $20 per location
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The neighbourhood bakery pick with a no-code discount already applied on its site, and on 19 September the only brand here whose discount has not moved again. On 2 September PrimaDéli's Mid-Autumn 2026 range showed 20% off across the board. By 11 September every set was 10% off instead, and it has stayed at exactly 10% since, which after Mdm Ling's third price rise makes it the steadiest price on this page. PRICES ON 19 SEPTEMBER (10% already reflected): White Lotus Paste with Melon Seeds 4-piece $54.00 (U.P. $60.00), White Lotus Paste with Single Yolk $54.90 (U.P. $61.00), Pure Lotus Paste with Single Yolk $56.70 (U.P. $63.00) and White Lotus Paste with Double Yolk $58.50 (U.P. $65.00). The mini gift sets are the cheapest way in: Mini Moonlit Snow Treasures $50.40 (U.P. $56.00) and Mini Moonlit Jewels $56.70 (U.P. $63.00). SOLD OUT SINCE OUR LAST CHECK: the Mini Moonlit Golden Treasures set at $51.30. Everything else above was still in stock. FOR THE CHILDREN: the Moonlit Bunny is $24.50 with no discount, a moon-themed cake rather than a mooncake, and the easiest way to include a small child in the festival without buying them a lotus box they will not eat. THE CUT-OFF, NOW LIVE: self-collection closed on 18 September and does not reopen until after 25 September. For that whole week online orders are delivery only, with a $50 minimum and a $25 delivery charge, so a single $54 box actually costs $79 delivered. If you want to avoid that, buy over the counter at a PrimaDéli outlet instead of ordering online. WHY IT RANKS HIGHER THIS WEEK: with Thye Moh Chan's webshop closed and Old Seng Choong sold out, $54 for four white lotus and melon seed mooncakes is now the cheapest halal-certified four-piece box you can still order on this page, and PrimaDéli is on the MUIS halal register at 21 premises. THE DEAL: 10% off the Mid-Autumn 2026 range, already applied on site, no code and no minimum spend, with no published end date. BEST FOR: a halal-certified four-piece box at a fair price, collected in person now that online orders cannot be.
10% off the Mid-Autumn 2026 range, already applied on site, no code and no minimum spend. Self-collection is CLOSED 18 to 25 Sep 2026: delivery only, $50 minimum, $25 fee. Mini Moonlit Golden Treasures has sold out
The best-packaged gift on this list, and the clearest lesson on this page in how a bakery early bird actually behaves. Mdm Ling is an online-only bakery whose mooncakes come in genuinely gift-grade packaging (metal tins, drawer chests, fabric bags), which is why it punches above its price bracket for corporate and in-law gifting. THE DEADLINE STORY, NOW RESOLVED: the early bird was announced as ending on Wednesday 19 August 2026 and did not switch off. It rolled straight on, with every price $1 to $2 higher than the week before. It stepped up again by 11 September. On 19 September it stepped up a third time, another $1 on every set, and the banner finally carried a hard date: 'Last Sale! Online Specials End Tue 22 Sep!' The headline has drifted down in step with the prices, from 'up to 30%' in August to 'over 25%' in early September to 'up to 25%' now, while the discounts actually applied run 24.62% to 28.14%. PRICES ON 19 SEPTEMBER (discount already applied): The Painted Garden Box 4-piece $64.80 (U.P. $88), The Dawn Bag and The Dusk Bag 4-piece $67.80 each (U.P. $92), and the Blossom Drawer Chest Petite Pink 4-piece $84.80 (U.P. $118). That is the entire live range now, four sets, each offered in six flavour combinations from four lotus-and-yolk classics to assorted boxes carrying Black Sesame Peanut Butter, Red Dates Longan, Belgian Double Chocolate and Emerald Pandan Golden Yolk. SOLD OUT SINCE OUR LAST CHECK: the Court of Peonies 4-piece tin at $57.80, which was our pick here, plus the Court of Peonies Duo 2-piece at $36.80, The Painted Garden 4-piece, The Painted Garden Duo and the Orchid Reverie snow-skin tin of 8. All six flavour variants of the Court of Peonies box are out of stock, not merely some of them. WHAT THAT DOES TO THE PRICE: the cheapest Mdm Ling box is now $64.80 rather than $57.80, so it no longer belongs in the under-$60 bracket at all, and four Bengawan Solo singles come to less. HALAL: Mdm Ling files its baked and assorted gift sets under a Halal Cookies & Mooncake category on its own site, while the Orchid Reverie snow-skin tin sat outside it. A search of the MUIS halal register for Mdm Ling returned no premises, so ask for the certificate number before ordering for a Muslim recipient. THE DEAL: up to 25% off (24.62% to 28.14% in practice), $6 off when you buy 3 boxes, and free delivery above $100, all ending Tuesday 22 September 2026. BEST FOR: the gift you hand over in person, where the box does half the work, if you order within three days.
Up to 25% off (24.62% to 28.14% applied in practice) + $6 off when you buy 3 boxes + free delivery above $100, ending Tue 22 Sep 2026. Court of Peonies and four other sets have sold out; four sets remain, from $64.80
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THIS IS THE ENTRY THAT CHANGED MOST, AND NOT IN A SMALL WAY. Until last week this was the best value on the page: $46.80 for a box of 4, or about $39.78 with the code EARLYBIRD. All of it has now closed. The code expired on 14 September, every Mid-Autumn gift set had to be collected by 18 September, and on 19 September we found the entire mooncake range gone from thyemohchan.com. The shop now carries 40 products and not one is a mooncake: tau sar piah, pineapple pastries, cookies, egg rolls and vouchers, with no Moonlit Blossoms box left. The Promotions page has also emptied out and simply points back to the store. WHAT THE RANGE WAS, FOR REFERENCE NEXT SEASON: boxes of 4 at $46.80 for Salty Tau Sar with Salted Egg Yolk, Sweet Tau Sar with Melon Seeds, Teochew Double Delight and the new-for-2026 Red Date Longan; $52.80 for Yuan Yang with Salted Egg Yolk and for the signature Yam with Salted Egg Yolk; $58.80 for Mao Shan Wang Durian. The mix-and-match Moonlit Blossoms (花满月圆) was $46.80 for four, with a $2 surcharge on each of the two premium yolk flavours and $4 on the durian. WHAT YOU CAN STILL BUY, VERIFIED 19 SEPTEMBER: Thye Moh Chan itself is trading normally and the pastries it is actually famous for are untouched. Tau Sar Piah boxes of 8 are $17.60 across six varieties (Salty, Sweet, Yuan Yang, Teochew Yam, Assorted Nuts Lotus and Assorted), Golden Joy 四点金 is $22.40, and the Golden Moon Pastry 月娘酥 box of 6 is marked down to $13.80 from $16.00. If it is the Teochew yam texture you came for, the Teochew Yam Tau Sar Piah box of 8 at $17.60 is the closest thing left this year, and it costs a third of what the gift box did. WHERE: four outlets, all open daily, at Paragon #B1-12, NEX #B2-58/59, Jurong Point #B1-105 and Chinatown Point #01-45. Any mooncake stock still sitting on a shelf would be over the counter there, so ring the outlet before you travel rather than trusting the website. BEST FOR: the tau sar piah, and a note in your calendar for the 2027 early bird, which has opened in mid-August two years running.
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THE RANGE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM ONLINE ORDERING. Polar has been a Singapore bakery institution since 1926 and is trading normally, but its Mid-Autumn category now returns the line 'There are no product to list in this category', and a search of Polar's own sitemap on 19 September turned up no mooncake product pages at all. The festive copy is still on the page, describing the collection; the collection itself is not. WHAT IT WAS: deliberately simple, just baked or snow-skin in two sizes each, every set mix-and-match so you picked the flavours. Baked set of 2 was $34.00 and set of 4 $68.00; Snow Skin set of 6 was $42.00, with a set of 12 above that. That works out to $17 a baked mooncake, so it was never the cheapest per piece here. What you were paying for was convenience, mix-and-match freedom and a shop near your flat. WHY THIS MATTERS MORE THAN A PRICE CHANGE: a brand page that still loads, still reads well and still describes the collection is not evidence the collection exists. Polar's page returns a clean 200 and reads like a live listing until you notice there is nothing to add to the cart, which is exactly the trap a guide written from a quick skim falls into. WHAT IS STILL TRUE: Polar states on its own site that it is Halal certified and HACCP certified, and the MUIS halal register lists 39 Polar premises including its central kitchen. Free local delivery still needs a minimum spend of $160. Its shops are open across the island, so if there is stock left it is a walk-in purchase, not an online one. BEST FOR: checking your nearest outlet in person if you want Polar specifically, and otherwise looking at Bengawan Solo, which is also islandwide and still selling singles.
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THE WHOLE COLLECTION HAS GONE, AND THE BAKERY SAYS SO ITSELF. Old Seng Choong, the heritage-bakery brand from chef Daniel Tay, built its 2026 range around the art of weaving, and it was our corporate pick on the strength of its bulk tiers. On 19 September its own Mid-Autumn page carries the line 'OSC's Mid-Autumn 2026 Mooncake Collection FULLY SOLD OUT' in its hero, and every one of the seven sets is out of stock in the store feed. The bulk tiers are moot: there is nothing to apply them to. WHAT SOLD OUT, AND AT WHAT PRICE: White Lotus Yolk Blend, White Lotus Olive Kernel, Black Sesame Salted Yolk, Pandan Melon Seed Salted Yolk and Jasmine Peach Oolong at $76.80 each, the Six Harmonious Woven assorted set at $78.80, and the Red Lotus Chicken Bak Kwa set, the one people remember, at $82.80. Each included a premium tea set and Rock Tea leaves. THE BULK TIERS, FOR NEXT YEAR: orders placed before 13 August got 25% off 5 to 39 boxes, 30% off 40 to 100 and 35% off 101 or more. After 13 August those fell to 20%, 25% and 30%, applied automatically at the cart with a 5-box minimum and no stacking with other promotions. If you order for an office, the lesson is that the deep tier and the stock both ran out well before the festival, so August is the month to place it. WHAT IS STILL ON THE PAGE: the site continues to list halal-certified Cat & the Fiddle mooncakes and a Disney range of nine 60g mooncakes, both sister listings rather than the OSC heritage collection, plus Pandan Coconut and Gula Melaka items at $22.80 under a Buy 5 Get 1 Free offer. Self-collection and delivery both run to 25 September 2026 at Paragon #B1-14, The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands #01-72, WEAVE at Resorts World Sentosa #01-223 and the Changi Terminal 2 and Terminal 4 transit stores, which need a boarding pass. BEST FOR: nothing this season. Put a reminder in early August 2027, when the 25% to 35% tier is live and the stock is still there.
Get Deal| Bakery | Entry price | Discount now | Cut-off | Still buyable? |
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| Tai Chong Kok | $2.50 (piglet biscuits) / $62 red bean box of 4 | None, ever | Baked to 23 Sep; snow-skin 19-20 or 22-23 Sep only | Full range live |
| Bengawan Solo | $3.80 (mini) / $9.45 single baked mooncake | ~10% online special prices | No end date published | 31 items live |
| Bread Garden | $14 (single) / $56 gift set, halal-certified | 10% above $150 min. spend (was 20% above $100) | Free delivery ends 20 Sep; 10% ends 25 Sep | 47 of 50 live |
| PrimaDéli | $50.40 (mini set) / $54 four-piece box | 10% off, applied on site, no code, no minimum | Self-collection CLOSED 18-25 Sep, delivery only | 1 set sold out |
| Mdm Ling Bakery | $64.80 (four-piece, after discount, was $57.80) | Up to 25% + $6 off 3 boxes | Sale ends Tue 22 Sep 2026 | 4 of 9 sets left |
| Thye Moh Chan | $17.60 tau sar piah box of 8 (mooncakes withdrawn) | None. EARLYBIRD expired 14 Sep | Collection closed 18 Sep | Range removed |
| Polar Puffs & Cakes | No mooncake listed online | None | Category empty since at least 19 Sep | Withdrawn |
| Old Seng Choong | Was $76.80 a set | Bulk tiers moot, nothing in stock | Sold out before the festival | FULLY SOLD OUT |
Six days out, the useful question is no longer which bakery is cheapest but which one you can still buy from. Of the eight heritage names here, checked on 19 September 2026:
Still fully open. Tai Chong Kok has every box in its range listed, nothing sold out, baked orders running to 23 September and both remaining snow-skin pre-order weekends still taking bookings. Bengawan Solo listed 31 mooncakes with its roughly 10% online discount and no end date. Bread Garden had 47 of its 50 items available.
Open with a condition. PrimaDéli is holding its 10% off, but self-collection closed on 18 September, so until the 26th an online order is delivery only, $50 minimum plus a $25 fee. Mdm Ling has four sets left and a banner that now reads "Online Specials End Tue 22 Sep".
Closed. Thye Moh Chan has removed its entire mooncake range from its webshop. Old Seng Choong marks its collection FULLY SOLD OUT on its own Mid-Autumn page, all seven sets. Polar's Mid-Autumn category returns "There are no product to list in this category", and no mooncake product page appears anywhere in its sitemap.
A hotel four-piece box on our hotel mooncake list runs about $88 to $108. On this page the cheapest four-piece gift box you can still order is Tai Chong Kok's red bean or green bean at $62, with the hand-moulded Jinhua ham Mixed Nuts signature at $76. PrimaDéli's white lotus and melon seeds box is $54.00 with its 10% applied, which is the cheapest boxed set left, though delivery adds $25 this week. Mdm Ling's cheapest remaining box is now $64.80, up from the $57.80 tin that has sold out.
And if you only want mooncakes for your own table rather than a gift box, 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. Its snow-skin minis start at $3.80.
| Cut-off | Bakery | What happens |
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| 20 Sep 2026 | Bread Garden | Last day for free islandwide delivery on $200+ orders. After that it is $20 per location |
| 19-20 and 22-23 Sep 2026 | Tai Chong Kok | The last two snow-skin pre-order weekends of the season, collection or delivery from 1pm |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Mdm Ling Bakery | "Last Sale" ends. Up to 25% off, $6 off 3 boxes, free delivery above $100 |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Tai Chong Kok | Last day to order a baked box for collection or delivery |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Bread Garden | 10% off above $150 ends, or while stocks last |
| 25 Sep 2026 | PrimaDéli | Self-collection stays shut until this date. Delivery only, $50 minimum, $25 fee |
| No end date | Bengawan Solo | Online special prices about 10% below regular, still running |
| Already closed | Thye Moh Chan | Code expired 14 Sep, collection closed 18 Sep, range removed from the webshop |
| Already closed | Old Seng Choong | Fully sold out, all seven sets |
| Already closed | Polar | Mid-Autumn category now lists no products |
A deadline that slips is not a deadline that vanishes; it is a price rise. Mdm Ling Bakery advertised its sale as ending on 19 August 2026. The sale kept running, but every price came back $1 to $2 higher. By 11 September it had gone up another $1, and by 19 September another $1 again, at which point the banner finally named a real date, 22 September. Three rises in a month. Waiting cost money every single time.
An early bird that really does end takes the whole offer with it. In August, Bread Garden ran 20% off above a $100 spend with free delivery at $100. Both are gone, replaced by 10% off above $150 and free delivery only above $200. Any guide still quoting Bread Garden at 20% is reading an August snapshot.
A page that loads is not a range that exists. Polar's Mid-Autumn page still returns a clean 200, still carries its festive copy and still reads like a live listing, but there is nothing on it to buy. Thye Moh Chan's shop page looks entirely normal until you notice that all 40 products on it are tau sar piah, pastries and vouchers. Neither site says the season is over. You only find out by counting what is actually in the cart.
BENGAWAN SOLO is the cheapest way to buy an actual mooncake, and on 19 September 2026 it was still selling its full range. Baked mooncakes go individually rather than only in gift boxes: Red Bean Paste is $9.45 online (U.P. $10.50) and Pure Lotus Seed Paste is $10.35 (U.P. $11.50), while the snow-skin minis are cheaper still and undiscounted, from $3.80 for the Mini Pure Lotus and $4.10 for the pandan, banana, strawberry and green tea versions. But the cheapest MID-AUTUMN buy of any kind on this list is not a mooncake at all: TAI CHONG KOK's piglet biscuits (猪仔饼) start at $2.50 for two in a plastic basket, with stamped Picture Cookies at $4 to $5. That is the traditional children's item, and a fraction of anything else here. FOR A BOXED GIFT: BREAD GARDEN's individual mooncakes start at $14, and PRIMADÉLI's four-piece White Lotus Paste with Melon Seeds is $54.00 (U.P. $60.00) with its 10% already applied, which is now the cheapest complete gift box you can still order, though its delivery-only week adds a $25 fee. TAI CHONG KOK's red bean and green bean boxes of 4 are $62 with no discount at all. THE CHEAPEST BOX HAS MOVED: our previous answer here was Thye Moh Chan at $46.80, or about $39.78 with the EARLYBIRD code. That code expired on 14 September and the whole mooncake range has since been withdrawn from the Thye Moh Chan webshop, so it is no longer an option for 2026. Mdm Ling's cheapest tin has also risen from $57.80 to $64.80 after the $57.80 Court of Peonies sold out. For comparison, hotel mooncake boxes on our separate hotel list run about $88 to $108, so the heartland bakeries are still broadly half the price for the same festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 falls on FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2026, and it is not a public holiday in Singapore. As of 19 September, three of the eight bakeries here have already closed for the season and three deadlines remain. ALREADY CLOSED: THYE MOH CHAN's EARLYBIRD code expired on 14 September, its gift sets had to be collected by 18 September, and its entire mooncake range has now been removed from its webshop. OLD SENG CHOONG is marked FULLY SOLD OUT on its own Mid-Autumn page, all seven sets, so its 20% to 30% bulk tiers have nothing left to apply to. POLAR's Mid-Autumn category now lists no products at all. STILL TO COME: BREAD GARDEN's free islandwide delivery on $200+ orders ends 20 September, and its 10% off above $150 runs to 25 September or while stocks last. MDM LING BAKERY has finally published a hard date after two months of slipping: its banner now reads 'Last Sale! Online Specials End Tue 22 Sep'. TAI CHONG KOK takes baked-box orders for collection or delivery until 23 September, and its last two snow-skin pre-order weekends are 19 to 20 and 22 to 23 September. PRIMADÉLI's 10% has no published end date, but its self-collection stays shut from 18 to 25 September, so that whole week is delivery only at a $50 minimum plus $25. BENGAWAN SOLO's online prices carry no published end date. THE PATTERN WORTH LEARNING: Mdm Ling advertised its early bird as ending 19 August. It did not end. Prices simply rose $1 to $2, then another $1 by 11 September, then another $1 by 19 September. These sales end in steps, not all at once, and every step costs you money. The practical rule is to work backwards from your collection date, not from the discount code.
Five of the eight bakeries on this list can still get mooncakes to you before Friday 25 September 2026, and three cannot. STILL SELLING THE FULL RANGE: TAI CHONG KOK has every box listed with nothing sold out, from $62 for red bean, and it is the only bakery here still taking snow-skin pre-orders, for 19 to 20 and 22 to 23 September with collection or delivery from 1pm. Its baked-box orders close on 23 September. BENGAWAN SOLO had 31 mooncakes live with its roughly 10% online discount, sold individually from $9.45, and no published cut-off. BREAD GARDEN had 47 of its 50 items available, with 10% off above $150 to 25 September. STILL SELLING WITH A CONDITION: PRIMADÉLI is holding 10% off with no minimum spend, but self-collection is closed from 18 to 25 September, so an online order this week is delivery only at a $50 minimum plus a $25 fee. Collect in person at an outlet instead if you can. MDM LING BAKERY has four sets left, from $64.80, and its sale ends on Tuesday 22 September. CLOSED FOR THE SEASON: THYE MOH CHAN has removed its whole mooncake range from its webshop, though its Teochew Yam Tau Sar Piah box of 8 is still $17.60 in store. OLD SENG CHOONG is fully sold out. POLAR's Mid-Autumn page lists nothing. THE FASTEST ANSWER IF YOU HAVE LEFT IT LATE: walk in. Tai Chong Kok, Bengawan Solo, Bread Garden, PrimaDéli, Polar and Thye Moh Chan all have physical shops, and buying over the counter avoids every delivery cut-off and every delivery fee above. Ring the outlet first, because what is in a shop and what is on a website are no longer the same thing this week.
CANTONESE BAKED is the one most people picture: a thin, glossy golden crust stamped with characters, filled with dense lotus or red-bean paste, usually with one or two salted egg yolks. Tai Chong Kok, Bengawan Solo, PrimaDéli and Polar all do this style, and it keeps for roughly one to two months sealed. TEOCHEW is different, a flaky, layered pastry closer to a tau sar piah, traditionally filled with yam (orh nee) or tau sar rather than lotus. Thye Moh Chan is the specialist here, and its Yam with Salted Egg Yolk at $52.80 was the classic example, though its 2026 mooncake range was withdrawn from sale after 18 September; its Teochew Yam Tau Sar Piah box of 8 at $17.60 is the nearest thing still available, and Bread Garden's Teochew Yam Paste mooncake at $19 is the other. This is the style to choose for someone who finds Cantonese mooncakes too dense or too sweet. SNOW-SKIN is the modern one: an unbaked, mochi-like chilled skin wrapped around fillings that range from lotus to durian to fruit. It must be refrigerated and eaten within a few days. Bread Garden and Bengawan Solo still sell snow-skin off the shelf; Polar's range has been withdrawn and Mdm Ling's Orchid Reverie tin has sold out, while Tai Chong Kok sells it only as dated weekend pre-orders. If you are unsure what the recipient likes, a mixed or assorted box solves it.
Do not assume, and verify with the specific bakery before you order, because certification status varies by brand and can change year to year. Several brands on this list are pork-containing or use ingredients that rule them out: TAI CHONG KOK's signature Mixed Nuts mooncake is built around Jinhua HAM, so that item is definitively not suitable, and OLD SENG CHOONG's standout Red Lotus set contains CHICKEN bak kwa, which needs its own certification check rather than an assumption either way. A plain baked lotus-paste mooncake is not automatically halal, because the certification covers the whole production facility, not just the visible ingredients. THREE BRANDS ON THIS LIST ARE ON THE MUIS HALAL REGISTER, which we searched again on 19 September 2026. POLAR PUFFS & CAKES has 39 certified premises, including its central kitchen, and also states Halal and HACCP certification on its own site. PRIMADÉLI has 21 certified premises. BREAD GARDEN has five, and describes itself on its own site as a Halal-certified bakery. MDM LING BAKERY is the grey area: it files its baked and assorted gift sets under a Halal Cookies & Mooncake category on its own site (the Orchid Reverie snow-skin tin sits outside it), but a register search for Mdm Ling returned no premises, so ask for its certificate number before you order. Thye Moh Chan, Tai Chong Kok, Old Seng Choong and Bengawan Solo returned nothing on the register. For those, check directly before ordering, or look at our separate hotel mooncake guide, where Fairmont Singapore and Andaz Singapore both have halal-certified baked ranges.
Two of the eight bakeries here will sell you mooncakes one at a time, and both were still doing so on 19 September 2026. This is the cheapest way to buy for your own table rather than as a gift. BENGAWAN SOLO is the cheapest and the easiest: Red Bean Paste $9.45, Pure Lotus Seed Paste $10.35, Vegetarian $10.35, White Lotus with Double Yolk $13.05 and Mixed Nuts $13.50 online, plus undiscounted snow-skin minis from $3.80. BREAD GARDEN sells singles across its whole range from $14, which is the widest choice by the piece: the $14 tier covers Red Bean, Premium Lotus, Pandan Lotus, Durian Lotus and the vegetarian lotus-and-melon-seed, with Green Tea Lotus sold out. NO LONGER AN OPTION: POLAR's mix-and-match sets of 2 at $34 are gone with the rest of its Mid-Autumn range, and THYE MOH CHAN's Moonlit Blossoms mix-and-match four-piece has been withdrawn from its webshop. TAI CHONG KOK, PRIMADÉLI and MDM LING remain box-only. Four Bengawan Solo singles comes to under $45 with the flavours entirely up to you, which is less than every four-piece gift box still on sale on this page.
BAKED mooncakes keep at room temperature in their sealed packaging with the oxygen absorber for roughly one to two months, and you should always go by the printed best-before date. Many traditionalists say they taste better two or three days after baking, once the crust softens and the paste 'returns oil' (回油), so buying early is not a compromise on quality with this style. Once a baked mooncake is opened, eat it within a few days. SNOW-SKIN is the opposite: it is perishable, must be kept refrigerated, and should be eaten within a few days. Take snow-skin out about 15 to 20 minutes before serving so it softens slightly rather than eating it fridge-cold. Durian snow-skins are the most perishable of all, so Bread Garden's Mao Shan Wang and Thye Moh Chan's durian set should be gifted the same day or kept cold in transit. This difference matters for ordering: Tai Chong Kok deliberately runs its snow-skin as dated weekend pre-orders precisely because it will not sit on a shelf.
