Huat To Bring: Door Gifts To Impress Your CNY Hosts

Another festive must-have, Sau Tao is a leading name in producing high quality, non-fried healthy noodles that we have come to love and look forward to eating. The long strands of noodles symbolize longevity in the Chinese culture, so do remember not to cut up noodle strands when visiting your friends’ houses!

Giving tea as a CNY gift is an age-old tradition, a gesture made popular after Chinese Emperors in the 8th Century began gifting tea to their devotees for medicinal purposes. Malaysian based KWF Group brings us their own renditions of CNY classics – MonTea Cha Wang (oolong) and Ripe Tea (pu’er).

Oolong tea is concentrated with flavour due to its long production process, whereby the leaves are semi-oxidized after rolling and shaping, This conjures up floral notes and intense flavours that oolongs are particularly known for.

Pu’er tea, or ‘red tea’, is the traditional Chinese tea that most of us are used to consuming. The processing of this tea includes both fermentation and ageing of the tea leaves, locking in intense flavours and giving off an earthy, bitter taste. Its medicinal properties are believed to include mental alertness and reduction in bad cholesterol.