Next week will be the start of the Lunar New Year! During the New Year greetings, you definitely don’t want to be criticized by your relatives and friends for giving “generic gifts”. So, of course, you should get your hands on beautifully packaged and eye-catching Chinese New Year gift boxes with unique flavors and styles! If you haven’t prepared your New Year gifts yet, check out the selected recommendations below now!
//agnès b. DELIGHTS//
agnès b. DÉLICES’ “Five Blessings Gift Box” (HK$590) is designed with a stacked box concept, containing five French pastries symbolizing the arrival of good fortune. It includes crispy caramelized nuts and various unique flavors of chocolate. The “Chinese New Year Assorted Chocolate Gift Box” (HK$490) contains twenty pieces, including two Mendiant and three Praliné, also symbolizing the arrival of good fortune. The five chocolates are nut milk chocolate, nut dark chocolate, ginger dark chocolate, sesame dark chocolate, and kumquat dark chocolate.
//Lady M//
Lady M collaborates with Sanrio to launch the “My Melody Chinese New Year Candy Box” (HK$688). It features a festive red color and an arched cabinet design, with a three-dimensional hollowed-out My Melody on top, adorned with small flowers, exquisitely cute. The transparent drawer of the candy box contains 6 special Chinese New Year editions of Lady M Bon Bon candies and chocolates, including orange chocolate, plum chocolate, crispy cookie chocolate, lychee chocolate, matcha white chocolate, and raspberry jelly gummies. The bottom drawer is filled with My Melody red envelopes.
//Valérie//
The brand is once again launching the “Yummy Assorted Gift Box” (HK$258) this year, which includes their signature butterfly pastries, pineapple gold pastries with a buttery aroma and fresh pineapple filling, as well as butter, matcha, Earl Grey tea, chocolate, and coffee flavored cookies. The red gift box also comes with a handle, making it a thoughtful Lunar New Year gift. Additionally, there are the “Uji Matcha Egg Roll Gift Box” (HK$168) and the “Uji Hojicha Egg Roll Gift Box” (HK$168), made with high-quality Uji matcha and hojicha powder, giving them a soft and rich tea flavor.
//Fortnum & Mason//
“The Celebration Champagne and Chocolate Gift Box” (HK$1,008) includes pink champagne truffles, Kir Royale cocktail, Bellini cocktail, Isle of Arran whisky, cherry brandy, almonds, hazelnuts, and white chocolate ganache, making it a very indulgent selection. The “Lunar New Year Iced Biscuits” (HK$238) feature beautifully decorated rabbit-shaped sugar cookies, showcasing the vibrant and festive atmosphere of the Lunar New Year.
//Sugarfina//
2 boxes of Chinese New Year candy gift boxes (HK$198) and 8 boxes of Chinese New Year candy gift boxes (HK$688) are designed in a three-dimensional window shape, with embossed paper-cut patterns such as peach blossoms and red lanterns, full of the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year. The candy inside includes lotus-shaped lychee gummies, green tea almond chocolates, peach gummies, gold milk chocolates, pomegranate bear gummies, citrus-shaped gummies, strawberry heart-shaped gummies, and coconut toffee macadamia nuts.
//Venchi//
The “Limited Edition Chocolate Gift Box Series” features a pink and orange color scheme, adorned with rabbit patterns and Italian countryside scenery, exuding elegance and charm. The series includes the “Chinese New Year Chocolate Wafer Box” (HK$188/12 pieces) filled with various thin chocolate wafers, and the “Chinese New Year Square Double Layer Gift Box” (HK$448) which includes a variety of Chocoviar chocolates and a three-layer chocolate flavor.
//Charbonnel et Walker//
Charbonnel et Walker, the British royal traditional handmade chocolate brand, has launched three limited edition truffle chocolate gift boxes, including Champagne Truffle Dark Chocolate (HK$228), Hazelnut Praline Milk Chocolate (HK$228), and Strawberry Cream Chocolate (HK$228). The exquisite boxes are designed with rabbits and traditional Chinese lattice patterns, embellished with gold foil, available in gold, red, and brown.
//Tea WG//
In addition to candies and cookies, offering specialty tea is also a good choice! Tea WG brings the limited edition “Tea Gathering Party Tea” (HK$388) for the Chinese New Year, where warm vanilla and berry flavors are blended into the delicate green tea, creating a refreshing and fragrant taste that pairs well with savory or sweet snacks for the New Year. Worth mentioning is the powder green tea canister, adorned with a playful rabbit design that echoes the Lunar New Year. The top custom-made series “Tea of Destiny” (HK$288) combines green tea with passion fruit, rose, marigold, and jasmine to create a fragrant and refreshing tea, and the red tea canister symbolizes the arrival of good luck.
