Chinese New Year Delights: nut biscuits, pineapple tarts, oranges and red packets

 

Chinese New Year gift. 

CNY biscuits. Home made. Photo by Angela Sharot.

These biscuits are more nut than biscuit. Slivered white almonds, green pumpkin seeds, black seeds, in brittle sugar.

Pineapple tarts from Cold Storage, Rail Mall, 2022. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Oranges and home made biscuits.

CNY decorations at Fairprice in Bukit Panjang.

Oranges my family bought in Fairprice supermarket, Bukit Panjang in the north west of Singapore.

These oranges from Fairprice have the Fremont label and come from Taiwan. Photo by Angela Lansbury

These oranges from Fairprice came with a packet of red packets with the word Fairprice in gold lettering on the back. The red packets are for you to give money, banknotes, to your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and unmarried relatives.

Youngsters complain that as soon as they get married they stop receiving money and have to start giving money.

Decorations at Rail Mall.

Big boxes of 12 oranges.

Photo by Trevor Sharot.

An IKEA leaflet in the mailbox at Singapore tells my family that at Swedish IKEA we can buy oranges and see through jars with lids for home made cookies.

Ikea advertisement leaflet. Photo by Angela.

The oranges must be Mandarin oranges which are easy peel and in season at Chinese New Year.

Pineapple tarts come in three basic shapes. The flat tarts with orange filling on top. The rolled tarts like sausage rolls with the orange filling showing at one end or both ends. The golf ball shape with pastry outside with top glazed with egg or sugar and the filling hidden until you bite them.

You should be able to buy similar goodies online, or at supermarkets in your nearest Chinatown, and in large supermarkets worldwide. You can also make your own. 

What do you need?

Minimum, two Mandarin oranges. (To be generous, give more oranges, preferably in a fancy red box adorned with goodwill messages in Chinese. ( You can print these from the internet, or download them from Whatsapp). 

Or, if you are Western and can't get Chinese goodies, add a box of chocolates.

Additions: Pineapple tarts or see-through jars of cookies with a red lid and/or label and a message wishing Happy New Year in Chinese writing.

Deliver in a jar with CNY message, or a box with a CNY message,

For children, or unmarried singles, note money in a red packet.

Where will you find Chinatowns? All over the world. For example, in the UK in London and Manchester and several more. In the USA in New York and San Francisco and LA and several more. In Canada in Vancouver and several more.

 
 More pictures shortly. Stay tuned or come back.

Useful Websites

Fairprice

https://www.fairprice.com.sg/

Cold Storage

https://coldstorage.com.sg/

Recipe for pineapple tarts

https://www.singaporeanmalaysianrecipes.com/pineapple-tarts-recipe-resepi-kuih-tart/

recipe for Chinese biscuits

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

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Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

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Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

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Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

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Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

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Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When