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Gift Guides 2025: Food-tastic Asian Gifts

You might have noticed we're a little obsessed with food. Heck, we opened a whole store dedicated to our favorites. So of course we have a cornucopia of foodie gift ideas.

Asian cooking

Help the chef in your life get saucy with our wide and varied Asian sauce collection. Some of our recent favorites include Heydoh's Classic Soy Sauce, HOYEHH's Chinese-Vietnamese Craft Chili Oil, and Red Boat's New Bae Seasoning Fish Sauce.

Up their recipe game with a new cookbook. Recent delicious reads include Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes from My Half-Filipino Kitchen, Koreaworld: A Cookbook, and the James Beard-award nominee, The Vibrant Hong Kong Table: 88 Iconic Vegan Recipes from Dim Sum to Late-Night Snacks, by our dear friend, Christine Wong.

Can't decide? Get them a little bit of everything with the Woks of Life Pantry Essentials gift box.

Tea lovers

Our loose tea collection is curated by none other than Pearl River Mart owner Mrs. Chen — so you know it's gotta be good! Her winter picks include Yunnan Gold Tip ("the best black tea"), milk oolong (dairy free and named for its creamy flavor and texture), and Yin Hao jasmine ("a good everyday jasmine").

We also love the exquisite teas from small, AAPI-owned businesses Senbird, Anna Ye, and Tasting India; these lovely matcha bowl sets for the matcha fanatic; and these elegant tea canisters.

Coffee connoisseurs

While tea might be considered the ultimate Asian beverage, we can't overlook the bold and vibrant coffee of Vietnamese American purveyors Nguyen Coffee Supply and Nam Coffee. Don't forget a phin filter for an authentic Vietnamese brew.

For an instant that doesn't skimp on quality, check out Korean American KimlyParc's instant espresso and latte. Coffee adjacent gifts we love are this Vietnamese coffee-scented candle from Baisun; this ceramic "anthora" cup, a longtime symbol of NYC; and these cute "Cool Beans" socks.

Sweets for the sweet

How about a little something sweet to go with that coffee or tea? Gift artisanal small-batch chocolates from small businesses Manoa Chocolate, KESSHO, and NeoCocoa. Spread the love with Yun Hai's Taiwanese fruit jams, Auria's Malaysian Kitchen's pandan and salted caramel kayas, and Rooted Fare's pineapple cake, black sesame, and Chinese almond cookie butters. Or give a variety of treats with our Asian Sweets gift takeout box.

Check out even more delicious gift ideas.

Featured Products

The Woks of Life x Pearl River Mart Pantry Essentials Friendship Box
A box of tea lover items, including a canister of high quality green tea, matcha panda cookies, tin of jasmine tea, matcha candy, a mug, a handheld tea strainer, and ginger tea
Box full of yummy Asian snacks, including taro chips, shrimp chips, Hello Kitty marshmallows, Pocky, Wasabi peas, Hi Chew, Kit Kats, and more
Snacks and foods spilling out of a Pearl River Mart mini canvas tote bag

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