Actually during this one month before the celebration of CNY, shops are already displaying their festive items and Chinese New Year hampers. These treats are not ordinary confectionaries – they are swirling with heritage, ethnicity, reminiscences, and significance.

A Brief History and Importance of CNY Goodies

Bakery products and other dried perishable products have always been used in China during festive occasions. CNY goodies bear messages of prosperity, no violence, everyone being happy again and a healthy year in the New Year.

Sharring snacks for instance candies among family and friends helps to strengthen their relationship. Giving out treats or souvenirs symbolises an act of valuing, concern, and empathy. Most of the time its ingredients and even packaging logos are associated with good luck and blessings!

CNY Goodies: Their Meanings & Origin

As you shop for CNY delicacies this festive season, discover what some of these treats signify:

• Pineapple Tarts – The pineapple is chosen for its perception of a royal appearance that portrays prosperity due to its thorny exterior. Business owners said such crumbly, buttery tarts with a pineapple jam filling are perfect for the Chinese New Year celebration.
• Bak Kwa (BBQ Meat) Lean meat sliced from a roasted pig Bak kwa is actually really sweet, kind of like jerky but salty. Originally, red defines happiness and good fortune. Bak kwa, biscuit made from glucose syrup, is also sweet and it is covered with honey on its surface.
• Mandarin Oranges - The mandarin oranges, used in this product, are called like ‘ju tang’ in Chinese which means gold. These seedless oranges also akin to the showering of procreation thus depict abundance as well.
• Prawn Rolls – The small, golden brown biscuits that ‘contain’ vegetable juliennes that are as bouncy and sweet as gold bars and ingot symbolise prosperity.
• Peanut Pastries - Peanuts or groundnuts speak of family and fertility, life continuation. These soft butter cookies or sandy bars with nuts are traditions and families connecting each year.
• Nian Gao (Glutinous Rice Cake) – This is sticky and chewy and is called Nian Gao – sounds like ‘higher year’– like we are getting higher and higher every new year. Sugary and brown sugar versions are most favored.
• Cookies: Dried fruits such as persimmon, dried lotus seeds, and candied winter melon explain family coherence and togetherness. In their dried and preserved forms they signify lasting relationships.
• Sesame Balls – The symbolic meaning that sesame pastes and seeds represent selling great business and longevity of prosperity fortunes. These are small delicate boiled dumplings containing black or red bean paste; they are also known as New Year treats.

CNY Goodies which are found in SG

1. Bakeries are classified under the Confectioneries and local confectioneries come under it.
2. Visit traditional bakeries in Singapore which offer CNY snacks made by traditional recipes, traditional materials, and classic tastes.
3. Look out for: It is filled with traditional pineapple tart, butter cookies, walnut biscuits, succulent pastry rolls with assorted nuts filling, kuih koci coconut cookies etc.
4. Supermarkets
5. Major supermarket groups NTUC FairPrice, Cold Storage, and Sheng Siong supermarkets have dedicated Chinese New Year themed section selling all sorts of snacks and baked goodies for the occasion.
6. Other regional specialties that are easily found are products such as pineapple cakes from Taiwan and nonya kuihs. You can also get tins for decorative boxes, gift hampers and some kind of packaging also to gift your treats.
7. Pop-Up Stalls
8. During CNY, makeshift stalls by the roadsides in certain areas stock up on rice dumplings bak chang, kuih bangkit cookies, coconut candies, sugee cake, putugal biscuits and many others all for sale and relatively cheap.
9. In fact, some hawkers bring food over as regional specialties from China or Malaysia straight to the market.
10. CNY Goodies Online Stores

For ordering bakery items online when you want the best of Internet shopping and still be able to taste good authentic Bakers R Us you want to recommend are the online stores run by famous bakeries or you can go shopping at more online shopping market places that have emerged such as www.fairpriceonline.com ,www.redmart.com or www.qoo10.com.

To take, CNY cookies, cakes, tidbits, as well as tea, wine, and other food gifts that can be bought to send over to FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

Welcome the Festivities with CNY Goodies & Delicacies

This Chinese New Year enjoy that which is rich and tasty, that which will bring aspects of Chinese culture, loved ones, and a shared culture. Spread joy in your festivities by personalizing your goody bags.

Most of all, I hope you relished the taste reproduced by these old CNY snacks – what could be more symbolic of this important and festive period in everyone’s year?