Those who’re frequent visitors to Hong Kong will be familiar with Hang Heung, one of the city’s oldest bakeries which has been selling its famous traditional wife biscuits since 1920. Singaporeans — including this writer — have been known to haul boxes of winter melon paste-stuffed wife biscuits back home to savour. Meanwhile, its aromatic, crunchy, melt-in-the-mouth handmade egg rolls are also pretty famous and a must-buy for our colleague whenever she’s in HK.

But good news, you can now get your paws on Hang Heung’s goodies right here in Singapore, at its pop-up stall at Takashimaya’s Mid-Autumn Festival 2019. The fair runs from now till September 13.

Hang Heung’s stall at Takashimaya’s basement atrium is stocked with its signature huat-red boxed goodies, and is takeaway-only.

You can find a wife… biscuit here. (Legend has it that the biscuit was created by a man who sold them to earn money to save his wife, who had sold herself into slavery to afford medicine for her father-in-law). Incredibly, the Hang Heung folks have hauled in an industrial oven to bake their wife biscuits on-site at the Taka stall, so you get to enjoy ’em fresh. One piece costs $2.70, and a box of six is $15.

Hang Heung’s equally popular Country Egg Rolls are also sold here in 400g tins (one for $24, two for $45). Sadly, you can only get the yummier, fresher-tasting handmade egg rolls at the HK outlets — the ones sold here are machine-made in HK and flown over.

If you like old-school Cantonese-style baked mooncakes, we say Hang Heung makes one of the best versions out there. We especially like the baked double-yolk White Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake ($50 for a box of four) with delicate thin pastry skins stuffed with fragrant, insanely silky sweet white lotus paste and gigantic orange double-salted egg yolks that crumble in your mouth. There’s also a double-yolk with red bean paste version ($50 for a box of four).

Prefer to whack a whole mooncake by yourself? There’s also a six-piece box of single-yolk Mini White Lotus Seed Mooncakes ($42, and a four-piece Mini Assorted Mooncake tin ($28).

If you’re too lazy to go to Takashimaya for these mooncakes, you can also buy ’em at BreadTalk’s outlets islandwide. Coincidentally, the bakery chain had also brought in Hang Heung’s mooncakes this year, albeit with slightly different options than what’s offered at the Taka pop-up stall.

The BreadTalk branches have a four-piece Fortune Blessings Assorted Mooncakes Set ($63) with double-yolk flavours like White Lotus Paste, Classic Lotus Paste, Red Bean Paste, and Mixed Nuts. You can also buy the white lotus paste mooncake by the piece ($17 each). Moreover, Breadtalk offers Hang Heung’s two-piece White Lotus Paste with Double Yolk and Mixed Nuts mooncakes, as well as an individually packaged Mixed Nuts Mooncake ($18 for one piece).

Now, it may appear that BreadTalk’s Hang Heung goodies are pricier than at the brand’s Taka pop-up (the prices there are based on a promotion that runs till the Mid-Autumn Festival itself).

But from now till September 1, BreadTalk is offering 15% off the four-piece mooncake sets, and 10% off the two-piece mooncake sets. After September 1, you get 10% off only the four-piece mooncake sets. Almost the same price as HH’s Taka booth, except you can buy ’em conveniently at your nearest BreadTalk outlet.

Hang Heung pop-up stall, from now till September 13 at Takashimaya B2 atrium. Hang Heung’s mooncakes are also available at all BreadTalk outlets till September 13.