This Mid-Autumn Festival, Xi Home Dumplings Bay is bringing the tradition of the large sharing mooncake to London with a handmade 6-inch
mooncake designed to be cut at the table and shared with friends and family.

Weighing 500g, the mooncake is made entirely by hand in Xi Home’s London kitchen and will be available in a limited release of just
60 – 80 boxes. Customers can choose two of three flavours – Pineapple, Salted Egg Yolk and Pork Floss or Ube and Taro – with two mooncakes per gift box, priced at £38.80.

The large sharing format reflects the meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on 25 September 2026. The round moon and round cake
symbolise reunion, traditionally marked by cutting a single mooncake into wedges for everyone at the table to share. In Chinese, the word for reunion, tuányuán (團圓), even contains the character for round.

For Xi Home founder Wenjun Xiang, the large format is a deliberate return to the tradition she grew up with in north-eastern China,
where mooncakes are more often made large and shared at the table. ‘Where I grew up, the mooncake was large and someone cut it. That is the part I wanted to bring back,” says Xiang. “A box of small ones is convenient, but nobody shares it – everybody just
takes theirs and eats it alone.’

The mooncakes will be made to order and pre-orders open via Xi Home’s website from 1st September, with collection from 11th September.