Chinese New Year 2024: The best hampers and foodie gifts of the season

Surprise your family and friends with lunar gift hampers from Red Lantern, featuring an array of delights such as homemade cookies, homemade caramel almond sea salt candies, a glutinous rice cake bar, 30 years aged pu-erh tea, Macallan 18 years sherry oak, and more.

For inquiries, please call 8888-8888 or email reservations@solaireresort.com.

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Welcome the Year of the Wood Dragon with Summer Palace’s nian gao collection, available at the restaurant or at the Lunar New Year counter in the hotel lobby from January 16 to February 25. 

From gourmet treats to symbolic treasures, each indulgent offer from The Bakeshop is also prepared with care to bring abundance and good fortune to your festivities. Order their fortune and prosperity hamper or their lucky Lunar carrot cake and mandarin chocolate torte if you crave something sweet.

For inquiries, please call (63 2) 8633 8888 local 8803 or e-mail restaurantrsvns.esl@shangri-la.com.

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Increase your luck with Jade Garden’s tikoy and radish cake, which, according to the restaurant, promotes prosperity, abundance and harmony. Buy 10 pieces of tikoy and get one free, a promo available only until February 11. 

For inquiries, visit their Facebook and Instagram pages. 

Our Chinese New Year celebrations are not complete without the prosperity toss! Polaris Fine Foods offers a family size of the yee sang prosperity salad. Among other dishes to order are their prosperity pockets, lucky dragon roll, and golden dragon roll.

For inquiries, visit their Instagram page.

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Available until February 10, bring home or share the good fortune the season brings with China Blue by Jereme Leung’s traditional nian gao set, which comes with one big koi fish filled with white almonds and six small koi fish brimming with the classic flavours of traditional brown coconut caramel and refreshing citrus.

The celebrations will get even more festive with the New Year-inspired cakes and pastries that are up for grabs at Bru Coffee Bar, starting February 1 until February 29.

Tatler tip: Visit Conrad Manila on February 10 at 11.08am to welcome the Year of the Dragon with a lion dance performance.

For inquiries, please call +632 8833 9999 or email conradmanila@conradhotels.com

Order your hampers from Hua Yuan Brasserie Chinoise. Guests can choose from either the deluxe hamper featuring a tikoy box, Dalmore 15 Years, meat jerky, White Rabbit, Alfredo almond chocolate, egg roll, Longjing tea, and a tea set or the premium hamper comprising a tikoy box, Dalmore King Alexander, pistachio nuts, Brookside chocolate berries, bird’s nest, Royal Dansk cookies, 4-head abalone, ginseng, longjing tea, and a tea set.

Those seeking a taste of tradition also have a box that features two koi fish-shaped tikoy.

For inquiries, please call +63 2 7239 7788 or email MNLPH_F&Binquiries@hilton.com.

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Share the gift of good fortune and send prosperity greetings with Grand Hyatt Manila’s Chinese New Year speciality cake and signature nian gao in traditional brown sugar and the new flavour osmanthus, which comes in gift boxes, making it a perfect present for families, friends, and associates. All goodies are available at the Florentine shop and through the Dine at Home service until February 10.

For inquiries, please call (63 2) 8838 1234 or email manila.grand@hyatt.com. 

Ring in the new year by pre-ordering Infinity Gourmet Foods’ prosperity salad, bringing an abundance of good health, fortune and success to you and your family. 

For inquiries, please visit their Instagram page. 

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Usher new beginnings with Canton Road’s nian gao treasure boxes, meticulously crafted to ring in a year of prosperity and abundance. Diners can choose from either their single-layered prosperity box or the double-layered double-happiness box. 

Share luck and good fortune with family and friends with their exclusive speciality hampers—longevity and gong xi fa cai—as well!

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Are you looking for something different? Wish your friends luck and good fortune this new year with Peking Garden’s golden tikoy. Buy 10 of this and get one free!

For inquiries, please visit their Instagram or Facebook pages.

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The Empress Dining Palace offers takeaway products perfect for your private celebrations at home through their customisable hot box feasts, bountiful dim sum platters, and dim sum baskets.

“As we enter our fifth year this 2024, we look forward to expanding our clientele and reaching more people through excellent and authentic Chinese food. After all, our commitment as a company is to share the Chinese culture and bring people together through fantastic food,” says The Empress Dining Palace COO Aida Velasco. 

For inquiries, please call 8292-0807 or 0915 543 1862. 

The Peninsula Boutique unveils a limited-edition line of edible fine chocolate trees. Pastry chef Annalyn Solano and her team created two Chinese New Year-themed trees—a mandarin orange tree and a golden fortune money tree—to celebrate the Year of the Wood Dragon. Moulded and finished by hand, even the soil, trunk, branches, leaves, and fruits are made of chocolate. 

Also available are mandarin orange, green tea and lemon, mango jasmine, rum, and strawberry Chinese New Year chocolate pralines.

For inquiries, please call +63 2 8887 2888 ext. 6694 or email diningpmn@peninsula.com.or visit peninsula.com.

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Guests can avail tikoy from Delicatessen with a 10 per cent discount on purchases of five to nine boxes, a 15 per cent discount on purchases of 10 to 19 boxes, and a 20 per cent discount on purchases of 20 boxes and more until February 11.

Additionally, the hotbox from M Takeout features a delightful combination of succulent pork knuckles paired with freshly steamed buns. Available until February 15, the ready-to-heat takeaway is designed for convenience, ensuring that guests can savour the exquisite flavours of The Manila Hotel’s signature dishes in the comfort of their homes.

Tatler Tip: Witness a lively dance performance with a dragon, lion, funny monk and God of Fortune, a centuries-old tradition symbolising good fortune and prosperity on February 10 at The Grand Lobby.

For inquiries, please call +632 8527-0011 and +632 5301-5500 or email info@themanilahotel.com.

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