Noel Gifts

With 45 years in the hamper business, Noel Gifts has got their game down pat. Whether you’re looking for something special for business associates, or want to turn up to your Chinese New Year gathering with something grand in hand – they’ve got you covered. Their Fortune Gift Hamper, for example, comes with premium goods like cans of abalone, wild ginseng, ready-to-drink bird’s nest, and Japanese dried scallops. The bundle is also chock full of festive treats – from Godiva chocolates to bak kwa coins for easy snacking.

Order online here. Tel: 6255-1155

Shang Palace

Executive chef Mok Kit Keung marks the half-century anniversary of the Shangri-La group and Chinese New Year with a red bean nian gao, graced by the inclusion of a rare 50-year aged tangerine peel which lends the dish a layer of sophisticated fragrance. That, along with five other nian gao flavours including a three-layered nian gao comprising of purple sweet potato, Japanese pumpkin and traditional niangao, make for an auspicious and indulgent CNY celebration indeed.

Available here. 

Glenfiddich

Glenfiddich has revealed three Chinese New Year special-edition packs inspired by how people return to their homes during the period to celebrate with their families. The vibrant, gorgeously designed boxes make great gifts and the whisky makes a great pairing for traditional Lunar New Year snacks like bak kwa and pineapple tarts. Available with the Glenfiddich 21 Year Old Reserva Rum Cask, plus the 12, 15 and 18 Year Old expressions. To sweeten the gifting experience, the brand has also created an Augmented Reality (AR) platform where you can create a personalised message to send together with the whisky.

Visit www.GlenfiddichAR.com to create your AR message.

Seriously Keto

We can’t leave non-carb eaters out of the fun (at least not too often). Seriously Keto, our island’s first bakery that’d pass muster for anyone on the ketogenic diet, can help with that. They’ve de-carbed some New Year classics like cashew cookies and kueh bahulu, and added another decidedly non-traditional dessert with a magnificent pecan coconut tart. Naturally, it’s all gluten-free with zero added sugars – some could even say you’re eating healthy.

Available here.

Feng Shui Inn

For traditional festive goodies, Chef Li Kwok Kwong’s Cantonese classics can’t be beat. Whether its nian gao with a signature golden-ingot-shaped twist, or a handcrafted carrot cake with taro and golden oysters; as well as a healthful water chestnut cake suffused with lily bulbs and wolfberries that’s equal parts New Year delight and fortifying nosh.

Available here.

Janice Wong

Sweets and goodies abound with Janice Wong’s latest collection of handcrafted treats. These include quintessential pineapple tarts and love letters, as well as noveau options like choc-bakkwa cookies – all available across a bevy of CNY hampers. And, grandest of all, a showstopping centrepiece – chocolate koi, sold in pairs, that are hand-painted to look like, well, actual koi, coated with Equateur 76% dark chocolate and filled with Praline Feuilletine and candied orange, all packed into a resplendent gold box.

Available here or at their two outlets.

Godiva

Timeless Belgian chocolate expertise meets spring-style flavours with chef chocolatier Jean Apostolou of Godiva. Limited-edition flavours include Bresilienne dark chocolate and strawberry milk chocolate squares, which come wrapped in red and gold (naturally); meanwhile, a trio of white chocolate raspberry orange, milk chocolate Piedmont praline and dark chocolate almond mousse get embossed with an ox motif.

Selections of these chocolates across a variety of sizes are available at any of Godiva’s five boutiques, or here.

Chiak Patisserie

Chef Chiak Seah Yang, who first started his journey at Antoinette before seeking tutelage from acclaimed culinary school Ferrandi Paris, has returned from abroad to continue doing what he does best – haute French desserts and pastries. That includes New Year goodies – like fan favourite pineapple tarts, melt-in-your-mouth soft-ish coffee cookies (fashioned to resemble coffee beans) and mandarines – a longstanding visiting tradition turned trompe l’oeil dessert, where mandarin gel, flesh, love letter crumble and a Valrhona opalys shell are combined into a lifelike mandarin orange.

Available here.

Marmalade Pantry

Homegrown brand Marmalade Pantry is offering a selection of perennial favourites, all packaged in gorgeous wineberry-pink containers. Their Grand Treasures set comes with a selection of snacks including small, individually-wrapped portions of chicken bak kwa, as well as hand-rolled pineapple tarts and honey mustard roasted crackers. There’s also something quite special to wash it all down: a bottle of Sandara Chardonnay & Sake, a hybrid drink that combines Valencian chardonnay grapes and the rice wine.

Available until 26 Febuary.

Order online, or purchase at any of Marmalade Pantry outlets.

Fort Sanctuary

For the tea lovers in your life – specialty tea producers Fort Sanctuary is offering a “golden bucket” that comes with a selection of specially commissioned tea-drinking peripherals like pots and drinking cups. The Chinese New Year set also contains a box of its Wuyi rock-essence tea, which hails from one of the most prized terroirs in China – and is processed in Singapore using a proprietary firing and resting technique that brings out the full potential of flavours and textures in the tea.

8 Raffles Ave, #02-04 Esplanade Mall. Tel: 6254 8048