From Ginseng-infused coffee and blood orange chocolates to gold-ink calligraphy sets and snake-adorned AirPods, these gifts are sure to leave a unique impression on your friends and family.
Nespresso
Unforgettable Taste for New Beginnings gift sets
This Chinese New Year, Nespresso adds a new invigorating flavour to their repertoire of flavours with the Ginseng Delight flavour. A double espresso blend enhanced with ginseng extract and the gentle sweetness of caramel, the Ginseng Delight works as a perfect start to the day over this festive period. The seasonal flavour is available for the Vertuo coffee machines and can be discovered in the limited edition Vertuo Discovery Assortment capsule pack (along with five specially selected coffee flavours). For a more well-rounded gift, the Vertuo CNY Gifting Box features the Ginseng Delight and Melozio coffees, the limited edition red-and-gold Lume Gran Lungo Mugs, a Cappucino Kit with cocoa shaker and stencils, as well as red packets to complete the set.
Learn more at nespresso.com/my or head to the Nespresso boutique at The Gardens Mall.
Venchi
Celebrating with Eleganza gift boxes
What better way to gift blessings than with sweet and shareable Italian chocolates? For that, Venchi’s many gift-wrapped options are the way to go. On the gift box, the majestic snake makes an appearance, twirling around in circular and linear motifs, which symbolize fullness, capturing festive joy and the cherished moments of reunion in life. And inside, Venchi’s best-selling indulgent bites await in an assortment of flavours ranging from unique Silician blood orange and stracciatella to the traditional milk and 85% dark chocolates.
Learn more on the website or visit the Seibu TRX or Pavilion KL boutiques.
KAMI Design Co. X Provisions
Tales of the Garden handcrafted cookies
A collaboration that brings out the best of delicious treats and thoughtful design, Provisions and KAMI Design have unveiled a special 32-piece box of handcrafted cookies for your celebration. Featuring the flavours of Earl Grey, Pineapple Jam, and Parmesan Thyme, there’s definitely a place for these cookies on at your open houses, while the gorgeous spring-inspired packaging make it a perfect CNY gift to share.
Place your orders at kamidesign.co.
A.Cross Creations
Gilded Fortunes gift set
For a more traditional gift with a twist, A.Cross Creations, purveyor of good gifts, presents its Gilded Fortunes gift set. A two-tier set that presents tradition anew, the heart of the gift is a Chinese calligraphy set, including gold ink, stone ink wells, and wooden natural-hair calligraphy brushes. Underneath in the second tier, you’ll uncover a pair of ceramic teacups and premium jasmine and chrysanthemum tea leaves. Together they hold deep-rooted cultural significance, and in a gift set it shares the experience of writing down your wishes for the new year while sipping on a cup of tea symbolizing good health and purity.
Available to order at acrosscreations.com.
TWG Tea
Snake Charmer tea set
Though tea is a traditional lunar new year gift, this limited-edition Snake Charmer tea is far from classic. Adorned with a snake charmer and the snake itself on the tin, the black tea is blended and mixed with spices, pineapples and marigold flowers to create a brew that’s floral, festive and fresh. Like the incoming zodiac, the tea with its mélange of blooming aromas, carries the promise of transformation, wisdom, and good fortune. But if you’re looking for a tea that’s more traditional, TWG also released a Yunnan Pu-Erh tea brick for this year’s CNY that would satisfy the most ardent tea-lover.
Head to a TWG Tea boutique to discover the full range of CNY gifts and hampers.
Cliff and Max
Golden Oriental Classic and Mini sets
Wellness brand and tea salon Cliff & Max in Ara Damansara is offering a unique lunar new year gift pack that chock full of tea and traditional Japanese treats. Offering more than the traditional pineapple cakes, the Golden Oriental Set includes several types of wagashi like the floral Nerikiri wagashi with mandarin orange filling, osmanthus red bean yokan, pineapple yokan, kohakutou candy, and dried persimmons – each a symbol and representation of good blessings and wishes for the year ahead. To wash it all down, the set comes with Shou Mei white tea and Da Hong Pao oolong tea as well, to end the experience on an uplifting note.
Learn more and place your orders on the site at cliffandmax.com.
TUMI
Lunar New Year 2025 capsule collection
Now for a detour from the edible gifts to the practical and functional ones, starting with selections from TUMI’s seasonal capsule. Painting a few of its bestselling pieces from the Alpha Bravo, Voyageur and TUMI+ collections with a bold, flowing gold brushstroke over a classic black, each piece brings to mind the agile snake – and will make a perfect gift for your loved ones that are always travelling. The pieces also come with a TUMI Lucky Coin, collectible tokens inspired by the traditional jade pendant that is said to bring good fortune to its holder.
Shop the capsule online at tumi.com or in-store at a TUMI boutique.
Apple
Lunar New Year Special Edition AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation
For the tech or music enthusiast in your life who is also born in the year of the snake, this piece is something to consider – a pair of AirPods 4 emblazoned with the emblem of the snake. A limited release to celebrate the season, you’ll get all the latest features, featuring Apple’s first open ear design earphones with Active Noise Cancellation, but with the addition of a snake coiled and poised on the front of the case.
Shop online at apple.com/my or at the Apple Store in The Exchange TRX.
LEGO
Trotting Lantern and Good Fortune festive sets
For the young and the young-at-heart, LEGO unveils two brand new Lunar New Year-inspired sets that you can build and enjoy with your kids over the holidays. First, the LEGO Trotting Lantern, inspired by traditional Chinese lanterns which unfolds to reveal three festive scenes hidden within. The set also features the LEGO light brick, unveiled for the first time, which adds a new dimension to this LEGO display model. The second set is the LEGO Good Fortune set, centred around an intricate fan, surrounded by persimmons, golden ingots, and a vase of fortune red fruit. The final piece of Good Fortune comes in the form of a LEGO calligraphy set, complete with model brush and LEGO calligraphy of the Chinese character for spring.
Discover all the LEGO Chinese New Year sets at The Realm of Possibilities pop-up event in 1 Utama Shopping Centre.
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