Holiday Gift Guide 2022: The Best Gifts For Asian Food Lovers

Holiday Gift Guide 2022: The Best Gifts For Asian Food Lovers

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Asian food encompasses a vast selection of unique and varied flavors and textures — from chewy, sweet mochi to the spice of a crunchy chili sauce to the savory, umami flavors of curry, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t love this continents’ cuisine! From an A5 wagyu sushi kit to the top of the line matcha maker, here’s a list to help you get started on holiday shopping for the Asian food lover in your life.

Cuzen Matcha Starter Kit

Cuzen Matcha is an award-winning countertop matcha machine that is engineered to reproduce the ancient art of stone-ground Japanese matcha by recreating the qualities of a traditional stone mill and bamboo whisk at the touch of a button. This is stunning at-home system is wonderful gift for anyone who loves quality matcha.

Cuzen Matcha produces freshly ground matcha from organic shade-grown leaves that can then be used to create high quality beverages, as well as, a variety of recipes. The starter kit includes three, 4 gram-packets of our Matcha Leaf Blends; booklet with operating instructions, tips, farm information and more to get you started on a daily ritual of freshly-ground matcha.

Morimoto Mochi Donut Kit

Global Grub has teamed up with renowned Iron Chef and successful restauranteur Chef Masaharu Morimoto to create this fun Morimoto Mochi Donut Kit. This kit is easy-to-follow and includes unique cooking tools such as a donut mold and reusable piping bag, and instructions to bake. The kit contains enough dry ingredients to make 18 baked chewy, sweet mochi donuts.

The Chef & The Dish Virtual Cooking Experiences

This unique company offers private, virtual, one-on-one culinary experiences with the best Asian chefs in Thailand, Japan and Peru. Give the gift of traveling the world via delicious food in the comfort of your own kitchen. Students join accomplished chefs via virtual classes and with over 125 classes to choose from, you could be learning how to make pad Thai from a chef in Thailand to Chaufa with a chef in Peru on any given day.

Buy: The Chef & the Dish classes, starting

Weak Knees Sriracha Gift Set

Bushwick Kitchen offers this gift set complete with all three of their Srirachas including Gochujang, Super Spicy and Curry. These sauces pack a punch using fermented complexity of gochujang chili paste combined with the spice of Sriracha traditional sauce. This gift set comes beautifully packaged with a custom dish towel and a unique QR code linking to a collection of recipes.

Japan Snack Box

Bokksu's Seasons of Japan Snack Box is curated by Japanese snack experts to bring you a taste of Japan's four seasons. Each box includes 22 authentic Japanese snacks and tea pairings, a culture Guide magazine with descriptions, common allergens, and cultural stories about each product. This gift also supports local Japanese makers.

ChaiBot

This is the world’s first fully automated tea machine which offers three different modes of making the perfect cup of tea, chai and matcha. Lovers of quality tea will enjoy the customizable aspects from the brew temp and brew time to the cup size. This unique gadget combines the boiling and steeping processes, making it four times more fast than your average kettle. Moreover, ChaiBot gives you 30% more antioxidants with their Total Tea Extraction Technology (TTE) for a healthier cup every time.

Salted Egg Yolk Dalgona on table in kitchen with napkin

Torani Puremade Salted Egg Yolk Syrup

Coming from Torani, the brand that put Italian soda on the U.S. map in the 1920s and created the world's first flavored latte in the 1980s is this salted egg yolk syrup. Perfect for lovers of the sweet and savory, custardy flavor of salted egg yolk, this syrup has a surprising umami finish.

Buy: Torani’s Puremade Salted Egg Yolk Syrup, $10.99

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