Hari Raya 2024: A guide to edible gifts

While The St Regis Kuala Lumpur is offering traditional Raya gifts of dates, cookies, and chocolates, its seasonal sambals make its gift collection a standout. The hotel aims to uplift Malaysia’s regional cuisines, incorporating lesser-known homegrown flavours into familiar favourites. Its Warisan Melayu sambal collection sees sambals from six states packed into a decorative gift box.

Expect sambal belacan buah limau bali from Melaka, sambal merah nangka muda from Terengganu, and more. This writer’s personal favourite is its sambal hijau buah kedondong from Perlis. This gift box would be perfect for hot sauce connoisseurs or home-cooks in need of some local flair.

Savoury meals should always be finished with something sweet. Godiva has put together a collection of festive gifts to honour Eid celebrations. Its Raya Gold Chocolate Gift Box houses an assortment of chocolates filled with timeless flavours like ganache, caramel, and fruit centres for those who prefer the classics. Shaped like a ketupat, its Riang Kupat Assorted G Cube is a smaller gift box containing a variety of chocolate truffles.

The chocolatier is also offering a more opulent option with its festive gift hampers made of a bounty of its signature flavours. If you’d prefer a gift curated for you, opt for one of its gift hampers that house a miscellany of these bites. 

Shangri-La have your Hari Raya gifts covered this festive season, especially if your loved ones are gourmands. Honouring the spirit of giving, the hotel has crafted a variety of gift sets and traditional sweets designed to be shared. The season’s must-haves, like stuffed or chocolate-covered dates, pistachio, and dodol, are just some of the treats available for pre-order.

A notable highlight of its collection is its onde-onde sugee cake, a traditional Kristang dessert infused with the accords of local kuih. Taking Raya cookies up a notch is its expansive biscuit selection of sarang semut, pineapple rolls, makmur pandan, and more. 

The beloved SS18 bomboloni specialist and bakery has unveiled its decadent festive offerings. Its aptly named Box of Happiness houses four kinds of bombolonis and two creampuffs, including its local breakfast-inspired seasonal creation—the pandan kaya bomboloni, topped with a pat of salted butter.

Mini bombolonis, pandan coconut rolls, and mini creampuffs are also available for holiday grazing tables.

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Drawing inspiration from Middle Eastern tea-drinking inspiration, TWG Tea has released exclusive flavours for the festive season. Its refreshing Moroccan Sahara tea was crafted with sahur, the morning’s first meal before a day of fasting, in mind. The Midnight Hour tea, a decaffeinated black tea infused with tropical fruits, proves the perfect accompaniment to an Iftar spread.

Gift these as early Raya gifts, or bring them along to your next buka puasa gathering. If loose tea leaves aren’t for you, limited-edition flavours packaged neatly into cotton tea bags are also available. TWG is also embracing festive gifting this season with its Eid Mubarak hampers of macarons, mini tea jellies, sugar gems, and shortbread cookies. 

Royce’s Hari Raya gift collection is one of the most expansive of the season. Five chocolate-driven assortments are available now—the perfect gifts for any sweet-tooth. Its Raya Assortment is meant to be shared and sees a collection of its signature potato chip chocolate, hazel cream chocolate wafers, and six pieces of nutty chocolate bars.

Its most opulent offerings prove the Raya Extravagance gift set, featuring fromage blanc potato chip chocolate, matcha chocolate bars, tiramisu cream wafers, coconut baton cookies, and caramel prafeuille chocolate.

For an assortment of Raya classics, pre-order Sheraton Petaling Jaya’s Ole Ole Gift Box. Housing homemade pineapple tarts, rose sable cookies, dodol, dates, and more, this collection proves there’s no better gift than variety. 

What is any Malaysian holiday without some form of kuih? Hari Raya spreads, especially, comprise platters speckled with these vibrant delicacies. Rumah Kueh Kak Zu offers an impressive selection of local treats year-round and is taking orders for Hari Raya gifts.

Find authentic kuih-muih, which is hard to find elsewhere, from tepung talam pandan to koci labu. Pre-order a tray of your favourite kuih or opt for its kuih Melayu platter of seri muka pandan, kuih lapis Nyonya, kuih bingka ubi, apam beras, and cucur badak.

For more information visit www.rumahkuehkakzu.com.

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Sofitel’s festive hamper comprises a curated selection of Hari Raya gifts your family and loved ones are guaranteed to enjoy. Available for purchase from March 12 to April 9, find homemade pandan macarons, asam manis layer cake, the hotel’s signature sambal, chocolate pralines, and kombucha. 

Inside Scoop routinely offers seasonal flavours to celebrate national holidays. The ice cream expert has fused a local delicacy with a global favourite. Tepung pelita is becoming increasingly difficult to source, with Ramadan bazaars usually only housing one stall selling the treat.

Inside Scoop is taking this matter into its own hands with its tepung pelita flavoured ice cream. A tub of this is sure to be the talk of any open house, blending the accords of a beloved Raya kuih into a frozen dessert. 

To order a tub, visit www.insidescoop.com.my.

Helmed by award-winning pastry chefs, Voilà Patisserie is a figurehead when it comes to the art of baking. Having uplifted the local pastry scene, it is similarly elevating the ritual of gifting Raya cookies and cakes with its Riang Raya Gift Box.

Order a box to gift loved ones and expect inside an elevated Sarawakian rose kek lapis accompanied by cocoa galettes crafted with Valrhona chocolate and sea salt galettes flavoured with Maldon sea salt. 

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