Darling Square celebrates the Moon Festival

Edited by Travel Weekly

Darling Square, a home to more than 20 vibrant cultures, has announced its celebration of the Moon Festival, which will come to life with a colourful lantern installation, music, lion dancing and other activities.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (or Moon Festival) is one of the most significant holidays in China and is now also celebrated in various countries. It presents a time for people to honour their blessings, happiness, family, and friends. The festival was derived from the ancient custom of worshipping the moon in thanks for the harvest, falling on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar when the moon is believed to be at its fullest.

Traditional moon cakes.

Food retailers across the precinct will create Moon Festival themed menu items, including:

XOPP’s mooncake collection takes a modern twist on the traditional mooncakes. Guests can choose from their classic egg custard with egg yolk filling and red bean with lily bulb filling.
IIKO Mazesoba’s Moon Festival menu is inspired by tsukimi or ‘looking at the moon’ featuring golden round ingredients resembling the full harvest moon and includes tsukimi mazesoba, tuna cup kakiage and gelato with mochi taiyaki.
Gelato Messina’s limited edition mooncake gelato is made with red dates, caramel, lava custard and mooncake crumbs. Freshly made in store and available from 17 September for up to a week while stocks last.
Lilong by Taste of Shanghai has golden puff pastry mooncakes with white lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk, red bean paste, abalone and pork fillings.
Auvers Dining offers a limited-edition Moon Festival inspired menu including duck and wagyu fried rice and deconstructed mooncake toast. They are also doing $15 matcha pancakes and KIDS EAT FREE on Sunday nights.
Matcha-ya are serving a fun jiggly bunny pudding in milk or strawberry flavour. You can also add a jiggly bunny pudding on any ice drinks.
15cenchi’s special, salted egg mochi moon cheesecake is inspired by the traditional mooncakes and available for a limited time only.
Dopa by Devon is offering diners a free mochi for dessert with any main meal purchase.
Bubble Nini’s delicious mooncakes include custard lava with salted egg yolk and lotus seed paste with double egg yolks and come in a luxury gift box of 8 for $129.
Ume Burger and Batch Brewing have teamed up to bring you the Batch Burger Box featuring a burger, fries and beer for $25. Batch Brewing also runs a happy hour promotion Monday-Friday from 4pm to 6pm.

Moon Festival event space.

The festival features hundreds of colourful lanterns that will light up Darling Square every night, from 6 to 22 September and invites visitors to take photos and post them along with the tag #dsqmoonfestival and ensure they are following @darlingsquare to go in the running to win a $500 gift voucher.

On 7, 14, and 17 September, guests are treated to an acrobatic LED lion dancing at 6.30pm. There will also be live music every Friday and Saturday from 6pm to 9pm. Family friendly activities such as mooncake clay-making workshops and moon festival themed face painting sessions will also be held.

The two week-long celebration has something for every guest, from music and entertainment, free family-friendly activities, and special food offers.

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