It's not Chinese New Year without a coffee table overfilled with snacks! If you're looking for Chinese New Year goodies as gifts when house-visiting or preparing your own snack arsenal at home, check out our picks of the 10 best CNY goodies and snacks:
#1 BreadTalk Buns, Cakes & Cookies
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BreadTalk has unveiled its festive collection including too-cute-to-eat bakes and tasty CNY goodies in pretty packaging.
If you're looking for a dessert, go for the Dragon's Blessing Duo ($8 for 6 pieces), a light and fully vanilla chiffon cake
roll covered in bak kwa and pork floss for a festive and umami-rich twist. Prefer buns? Get the creatively designed Nian Gao Fortune Pillow ($3.80), Lobster Treasure ($3.60) or Dragon Dance ($3.80).
There are also Cookies ($15.80) including a new range of Crispy Cookies in flavours like Mocha Almond, as well as traditional snacks such as the Mini Pineapple Pastry and Mini Ondeh Ondeh. These treats come in bundles ($9.80 - $82.80) for gifting, and each purchase comes with limited-edition red packets.
#2 Toast Box CNY Cookies
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This home-grown contemporary Nanyang coffee chain has introduced its Lunar New Year collection including binge-worthy cookies in elegant tins.
Retailing at $15.80 per bottle, the line-up includes Mini Pineapple Pastry with Gula Melaka-infused pineapple paste, Peanut Butter Kueh Kapet, Green Pea Cookie, Cashew Nut Cookie, Mini Ondeh Ondeh and our favourite - Kopi Gao Cookies.
These cookies also come in an elegantly packaged festive gift box ($28.80, U.P. $31.60) which comes with two bottles of cookies, as well as a bundle ($34, U.P. $37.60) with two bottles of cookies and 2-in-1 Nanyang Kopi Sachets.
#3 IKEA CNY Dragon Cookies
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IKEA's Swedish Food Market is back with another adorable CNY-themed treat. This year's edition are buttery and crumbly Dragon Cookies ($2.20 each) covered in vibrant and festive icing.
There will also be traditional goodies, some with a Swedish-style twist, like Cranberries pineapple ball ($9.80) and Danish cashew nut ($9.80).
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#4 Tiong Bahru Bakery Cookies & Kouign Amanns
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Tiong Bahru Bakery puts the most creative spins on their beloved Kouign Amann, like last year's mooncake-inspired ones. For Chinese New Year season, these caramelised pastries now come in two new festive flavours. Hae Bee Hiam & Meat Floss Kouign Amann ($7.50) is a shrimpy delight while the Bak Kwa Kouign Amann ($7.50) has a delicious combination of sweet and savoury flavours.
Joining them are Chinese New Year cookies including Spicy Shrimp Pinwheels ($12), melt-in-your mouth Peanut Cookies ($12) and crumbly Coconut Cookies ($12).
Available at all TBB outlets.
#5 TWG Tea Grand Dragon Tea
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We need something to wash down all that 'heaty' food, and there's no better way to do it than with TWG Tea. The teahouse has introduced Grand Dragon Tea ($50, 100g), a new limited edition from its celebrated Grand Mode Tea Collection.
This exuberant blend has notes of fragrant mandarin orange for a cuppa that's refined, invigorating and comforting all at once. The tea leaves are encased in an exquisite keepsake - a emerald green tin accented with golden touches and a red dragon.
Every purchase of Grand Dragon Tea at Salons and Boutiques comes with a complimentary set of TWG Tea's limited-edition Grand Dragon Tea Red Packets (set of 8).
Available from at all TWG Tea Salons & Boutiques and on TWGTea.com
#6 Flourishing Prosperity Tier at Goodwood Park Hotel
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An impressive table centrepiece, this takeaway high tea set ($118 nett) is served in a gorgeous box reminiscent of a bonsai plant. Inside are eight pairs of intricately designed bite sized entremets, each resembling auspicious symbols.
It includes:
- Dragon Macaron
- Chocolate Coffee Mousse
- Gula Melaka Pandan Cake
- Orh-ni Swiss Roll
- Strawberry Yoghurt and Lychee Petite Gateaux
- Pineapple Choux Pastry
- Mini Red Date Cake
- Peanut Chocolate Tartlet
The hotel has also brought back the crowd-favourite Fortune Koi Fish 'Nian Gao' filled with Black Glutinous Rice ($52.80 for 8 pieces). These realistic-looking treats have a satisfying chewy texture and an aromatic black glutinous rice filling with the perfect level of sweetness.
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Order online: goodwoodparkhotel.com
#7 Baker's Brew Cookies
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This festive season, Baker's Brew cookies ($29.80 per tin, $88 for 3, $138 for 5) blend tradition with modern elegance. The bite-sized treats have familiar flavours with a refined edge and are packaged in the most gorgeous retro-style biscuit tins with oriental motifs.
Ondeh Ondeh Cookies, the bestseller, has pandan-infused dough generously filled with gula melaka coconut filling while Pineapple Pillows are butter and cheese pastries with less sweet Thai pineapple paste.
There are also Peanut Almond Cookies and the more unusual Hae Bee Hiam Cookies and Pineapple Bak Kwa Cookies.
Available in stores and online on bakersbrew.com.
#8 Lady M 2024 Lunar New Year Gift Set
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The limited-edition gift Lunar New Year Gift Set (early bird price: $105, U.P. $116) opens to reveal a pop-up display of spinning plum blossoms. Inside the drawers is a curated selection of six exclusive confections: Abundant Roasted Almonds, Cheerful Coconut Chocolates, Prosperous Melon Pearls, Sweet Sesame Crunch, Harmonious Coconut Crêpes and Lucky Earl Grey Crêpes.
The gift set also features five lucky red envelopes, a matching greeting card and a custom-designed gift bag.
Pre-order online: ladym.com.sg
#9 Dough Magic Golden Dragon Bao
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This Chinese street food kiosk has a wide variety of buns, including ones shaped like bunnies and pandas, all year round. But for the festive season, they've rolled out a limited-time Golden Dragon Bao ($2 each, $18 for 10) filled with coconut jelly.
Available at all outlets.
#10 IRVINS Lunar New Year Box
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According to IRVINS' founder, the brand's snacks make for a fun and crunchy lo hei topping. But whether you'd like to experiment with your good fortune toss this year or enjoy snacks the regular way, the IRVINS Lunar New Year Box ($20.80) has you covered.
It contains four packets of signature IRVINS fish skin and salmon skin snacks and six hong baos.
Available in stores and online on eatirvins.sg.
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