MGM Macau is teaming up with award-winning pastry chef, Janice Wong, to launch two mooncake gift boxes for this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival.
According to a press release from MGM, Singaporean chef Wong was selected in San Pellegrino Asia’s Top 50 as Asia’s Best Pastry Chef in 2013 and 2014, as well as awarded the Pastry Chef of the Year in 2011, 2013 and 2015 at the World Gourmet Summit.
The mooncake gift boxes are a sneak peek at the chef’s pastry skills, with MGM planning to open a Janice Wong sweets shop at MGM Cotai in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The first gift box is the “Assorted Mini Snow Skin Mooncake,” which offers nine flavors that mixes the traditional lotus paste with chocolate ganache fillings. The assortment includes a “Gula Melaka Pandan” flavor that has a light touch of coconut scent, a “White Truffle” flavor that contains a nutty 76 percent dark chocolate, “Salted Caramel”, “Jasmine Tea”, and “Champagne”.
Meanwhile, the “Assorted Mini Mooncake” gift box offers three flavors including the classic “White Lotus Egg Yolk,” the “Egg Custard,” and the “Cured Ham with Mixed Nuts.” The mooncakes are packed in a black box with a color palette as the pattern.
The “Assorted Mini Snow Skin Mooncake” and the “Assorted Mini Mooncake” gift boxes are priced at MOP388 and MOP428 respectively. MGM is also offering festive hampers priced from MOP2,288.
Global tourism economy forum to be held in Macau this October
The Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF), an international tourism platform designed to encourage sustainable development of the global tourism industry with a focus on China, is scheduled to host its 6th annual edition on October 16 and 17 in Macau.
GTEF’s most recent roadshow was held on August 11 at The Peninsula Beijing, enabling the forum’s partners and media to gather. The luncheon boosted tourism stakeholder participation at GTEF 2017 by signing on delegates and participants in the Forum’s business matching platform. The luncheon was attended by various prominent guests who gave remarks on the key role that regional collaboration plays in developing tourism opportunities alongside the Belt and Road Initiative. The leading MICE operators representing Macau included MGM Macau, Sands China and SJM Holdings.
The GTEF press release quotes Pansy Ho, Vice Chairman of GTEF, stating, “in the past five years, the Forum has capitalized on Macau’s distinct advantages in east-west cultural fusion and interconnectivity and has successfully built a global tourism exchange and cooperation platform that is backed by our motherland.”
