All your local Japanese favorites are here—Top 10 Lunar New Year Dessert Gifts!

By SpotOn Travel, compiled and reported
 
As families reunite during the Lunar New Year, it’s customary to bring gifts when visiting relatives and friends. Whether you prefer local Taiwanese treats or refined Japanese-style sweets, we’ve curated a list of the top 10 Lunar New Year dessert gift ideas—including five popular picks from Breeze Taipei Station as a reference. Picking the right gift ensures everyone feels the festive happiness.

1. Peninsula Boutique
This year, Peninsula Boutique has launched the Four Seasons Scenic Gift Box series, with packaging inspired by traditional Chinese lattice designs. In addition to their wildly popular rice cake gift boxes, they also offer fragrant jasmine tea rice cakes, as well as customizable boxes that pair classic Peninsula chocolates, chef’s spicy bean paste, almond flakes, buttery egg rolls, and teas. Western-style sweets blended with traditional Chinese flavors make for uniquely premium gifts. All four festive gift boxes can now be ordered at any of their five stores across Taiwan.

2. TWG Tea
The Singaporean tea brand TWG Tea is hosting a limited-time pop-up boutique in the basement of SOGO Taipei Tianmu from January 16 to February 16. They’re offering exclusive New Year gift sets that include premium African black tea, TWG Tea’s signature tea candy, the TWG Tea Saturn tin, a modern art orchid teapot, and a stylish tea cup set. The festive packaging and tea tins add extra blessings to the joyful holiday season.

Additionally, Breeze Taipei Station has announced its top five best-selling Lunar New Year gifts:
3. Orange Village(Breeze Taipei Station)
Orange Village’s “Caramel Greetings” uses premium French Guérande sea salt, which has a 2,000-year production history, along with slowly simmered caramel sauce. It’s wrapped in milk sponge made with 100% imported Japanese fresh cream. This treat sells hundreds of rolls every week.

4. Black As Chocolate(Breeze Taipei Station)
Taiwan’s only Disney-authorized cake brand “BAC” has released limited-edition Disney-shaped handmade cookies: “Golden Year Rat with You” and “2020 It’s You, Rat!” Featuring the super cute classic Mickey shape paired with maple nut flavor, they’re a big hit.