The best food and drink gifts for Chinese New Year

Luxury tea brand Tea WG marks the season by releasing a limited edition festive collection. Usher in the Chinese New Year with the Grand Dragon green tea blend, which contains notes of mandarin orange; or sip on the Golden Monkey jasmine tea blend to enjoy a delicate floral fragrance. The tea brand also offers a handmade compressed pu-erh tea brick made with sun-dried leaves from Yunnan, which will make for a wonderful gifting option during the holidays. 

Price: From $378 and up
Where to buy: All Tea WG locations across Hong Kong

Make your Chinese New Year even sweeter by munching on Paul Lafayet’s curated collection of holiday treats. Purchase the dessert brand’s signature products, which include their creme brulee and tiramisu tarts, macarons, and artisanal handmade cookies. Paul Lafayet has also released new products to welcome the Year of the Dragon like the Scarlet Dragon gift box, which contains handmade cookies, chocolate-covered freeze dried strawberries, dark chocolate caramel almonds, premium loose-leaf teas, and a fine bone china dish. For smaller gifting options, get your hands on limited edition lucky bags filled with miscellaneous treats and a voucher to purchase one of their desserts. 

Price: From $178 and up
Where to buy: paullafayet.com/pages/cny-2024

Looking to gift something sweet this Chinese New Year? Lucullus offers a wide array of holiday boxes that’ll make for a great option. Inspired by Hoo Hey How – a traditional dice game played during Chinese New Year – the patisserie brand has created an edible version of the game with chocolate dice, betting chips, and pastries. Other holiday treats from Lucullus include chocolates decorated to look like mahjong tiles, assorted cookies, and CNY-themed cakes that range from mini lemon mandarin mousse cakes to fresh fruit cream cakes. 

Price: From $50 and up
Where to buy: All Lucullus locations across Hong Kong and lucullus.com.hk 

Fortnum & Mason presents a wide range of celebratory treats for you and your loved ones to enjoy. Nibble on the brand’s Lunar New Year biscuit selection or festive iced biscuits that come decorated like koi fish, paper lanterns, and dragons. Pair your sweet treats with Fortnum & Mason’s assorted tea boxes, blended loose leaf teas, or opt for a bottle of sparkling tea. What’s more, customers can also choose from several hampers and gift boxes full of popular treats like shortbread cookies, sparkling tea, sweets, and chocolates, among others.

Price: From $278 and up
Where to buy: Fortnum & Mason’s flagship location at K11 Musea

Celebrate the upcoming holidays with Spring Moon at The Peninsula and its selection of products. This year, the Chinese restaurant offers a range of traditional puddings that come in sweet flavours such as red date and brown sugar, along with savoury options like turnip, water chestnut, and taro. Spring Moon also offers a Divine Treasures hamper, which comes with an array of tempting treats like various dried seafood, the restaurant’s signature X.O sauce, premium Chinese tea, and more. 

Price: From $418 and up
Where to buy: eshopphk.peninsula.com 

In preparation for Chinese New Year, renowned chef May Chow has launched a collection of four festive cakes that incorporate tradition with a modern twist. Delight in chef May’s signature beetroot turnip cake which contains ingredients like Sam Hing Lung rose wine sausages, top-grade dried Japanese scallops, shiitake mushrooms, sun-dried Thai shrimp, agave nectar, and yuzu peel. Little Bao’s other festive cakes come in flavours like purple taro, golden pumpkin, as well as daikon turnip. Each cake is handmade, and there will only be 250 pieces of each variety, so be sure to pre-order these limited edition cakes now on Little Bao’s website.

Price: From $268 and up
Where to buy: little-baocny.oddle.me/en_HK

In preparation for CNY, The Cakery has launched an adorable lineup of holiday treats. Sink your teeth into their fondant cookies, cake pops, cupcakes, and cakes – all of which are elaborately decorated with traditional Chinese motifs like cherry blossoms, tangerines, and the Chinese character for fortune.

Price: From $50 and up
Where to buy: thecakery.com/collections/cny

For CNY, Italian grocer Mercato Gourmet offers three bountiful hampers filled to the brim with artisanal Italian products. Notably, the Bountiful Indulgence hamper comes with Mercato Gourmet’s best selling products like a Bordrato assorted chocolate praline gift box, Anfosso extra virgin olive oil, dried porcini mushrooms, aged carnaroli rice, Venturini Baldini’s sparkling rubino del cerro lambrusco, and more. 

Price: From $588 and up
Where to buy: All Mercato Gourmet locations across Hong Kong and mercatogourmet.com.hk/collections/chinese-new-year-2024  

Usher in good luck during Chinese New Year with Island Shangri-La’s collection of auspicious treats. The hotel’s Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant Summer Palace has whipped up a delectable range of sweet and savoury puddings, gift boxes, and hampers chock full of indulgent items like aged dried tangerine peel, chocolates, and vintage wines. 

Price: From $348 and up
Where to buy: boutique.shangri-la.com

This Chinese New Year, The Peninsula Boutique incorporates dragon motifs across their packaging to drum up holiday spirit. Slice into traditional puddings flavoured with red date and ginger juice or turnip pudding with whole abalone, and crack open the boutique’s goodie box to find various butter cookies, chocolates, mints, and peanut candies. The Peninsula Boutique also offers various products that make wonderful gifting options, such as loose tea leaves, palmiers, cookies, and their extravagant hampers that come filled to the brim with treats. 

Price: From $168 and up
Where to buy: peninsulaboutique.com/hk/en

Spread happiness with Venchi’s CNY collection of premium Italian chocolates. This year’s collection pays tribute to the majestic dragon, which can be seen alongside colourful patterns and flowers on all of Venchi’s festive products. Whether you want to enjoy them with your close friends or share them with a large crowd, Venchi provides a range of gift boxes and hampers that will satisfy everyone’s sweet tooth. From crunch chocoviars and three layered creminos to decadent gianduiottoi, Venchi’s chocolates are set to impress.

Price: From $188 and up
Where to buy: From Venchi stores across Hong Kong and venchi.com.hk/ 

Luxury hotel Rosewood Hong Kong’s lunar new year collection offers handcrafted puddings, confectionaries, and savoury treats. Customers will be blown away by the Longevity hamper, which features aged tea cakes, dried bird’s nest, The Legacy House’s homemade X.O sauce, dried conpoy, pudding, and plenty more. Additionally, the hotel’s patisserie Butterfly Patisserie, will offer a collection of auspicious sweet treats decorated with lucky shades of red and gold, as well as Chinese motifs such as gold ingots and traditional red envelopes.

Price: From $98 and up
Where to buy: rosewoodhkshop.com/collections/chinese-new-year 

Welcome the Year of the Dragon with Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong’s exquisite selection of four luxurious hampers. The Gourmet Chinese Hamper beautifully blends Eastern and Western flavours, featuring Champagne, red wine, glutinous rice cake, Chinese cookies, chocolate coated orange and ginger peels, X.O sauce, rose petal jam, abalone, and more. For a smaller option, the Chinese Gift Box is a curation of chocolates, CNY pudding, festive treats, and tea.

Additionally, Mah Wah partners with Dashijie this year to present a limited-edition supreme goose liver turnip cake set, which comes with Man Wah’s homemade X.O sauce.

Price: From $688 and up
Where to buy: hongkong.mandarinorientalshop.com/collections/chinese-new-year-2024

Kee Wah Bakery rings in the new lunar year with their collection of quintessential holiday goodies. Choose from four CNY exclusive packages, which offer a combination of Kee Wah’s most beloved products at discounted prices, including palmiers, almond crisps, pineapple shortcakes, and cookies. Of course, no Chinese New Year would be complete without enjoying a hearty portion of pudding, which Kee Wah offers in its classic original flavour, coconut, ginger juice, as well as red dates. Don’t miss out on Kee Wah’s collaboration with Disney – consisting of egg rolls, mini puddings, and assorted candies – all packaged in adorable containers decorated with classic Disney characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Pluto.

Price: From $88 and up
Where to buy: From all Kee Wah chains across Hong Kong and keewah.com/en/chinese-new-year.html

To usher in the Year of the Dragon, Regent Hong Kong’s two Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant Lai Ching Heen has crafted a savoury turnip pudding chock full with diced air-dried preserved meat. Additionally, Lai Ching Heen has whipped up bottles of homemade X.O chilli sauce for the holiday season, which makes for a perfect pairing with the turnip pudding. The restaurant is also offering a premium hamper, which not only includes the turnip pudding and X.O sauce, but also comes with a premium assortment of dried fish maw, conpoy,  mushrooms, sparkling golden oolong tea with longan honey, and a bottle of Chateau Kirwan. 

Price: From $288 and more
Where to buy: regenthkshop.com/

Zuma Hong Kong partners with French Champagne house Ruinart to offer an exquisite hamper for the holiday period. Each hamper contains a selection of premium chocolates with flavours such as Chinese jasmine tea or almond praline with yuzu, a bottled umeshu Negroni crafted by Zuma’s bar team, a 375ml bottle of Ruinart rose, as well as a set of red envelopes embellished with good wishes and phrases written by local calligrapher Clara Wu. Aside from the aforementioned products, Zuma has also included a gift within one of the included red envelopes, so be sure to open each one for a special surprise. 

Price: $888
Where to buy: zumarestaurant.com/whats-on/zuma-chinese-new-year-hamper/