...."Personalised boxed candy as a wedding gift?
At a typical Taiwanese wedding after paying your entrance fee (or good luck money or whatever you want to call it), you usually get some sort of gift box or some such as a token of appreciation.
A favourite (and I can only presume staple) thankyou gift appears to be a box of individually wrapped cookies. By and large whilst these cookies (biscuits) usually come in a fancy box, I’ve found they’re nothing worth writing home about.
Last year I attended one particular wedding where, in addition to cookies we also got a rather strange little box.
The back of the box looked like a regular offering of ‘Moringa Adzuki Bean Caramel’ candy:
But flip the box over and you had a nice little quaint wedding gift:
Apart from the printed photo, special touches include ‘Happy Milk Caramel’ on the front (which should probably read ‘Happy wedding’ or something?) and the couple’s wedding date written underneath the barcode.
The only problem with such a gift I found was that once you’d finished the candies… you kinda felt massively guilty about throwing the box away.
Good thing I didn’t know the couple to well and had no such reservations!
But shame the candy tasted horrible.
Seriously Taiwan, you need to get over your love affair with red-bean flavoured everything… it all tastes like freaking arse!
January 25th, 2012 at 3:00 am Jeff L.(Quote)
I agree there is some sort of obsession with red-bean inside sweets. It’s as though red bean is the ‘go to’ filler.
“What can we put inside of this new candy?”
“Red bean.”
“… new bread we will be baking?”
“Red bean.”
etc….
January 25th, 2012 at 9:51 am Andrew(Quote)
I’d get one to look like a betel nut box.
January 25th, 2012 at 12:08 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
…for a wedding?
January 26th, 2012 at 10:56 pm TaiwanTeacher(Quote)
At the last wedding I attended in Hualien, I got a bottle of Scottish Leader Supreme. Nice!
January 26th, 2012 at 11:03 pm ausGeoff(Quote)
Sorry Oz, but I’m not in a position to comment on this…
“It all tastes like freaking arse!”
Not that I’m keen to either!
January 26th, 2012 at 11:07 pm TaiwanTeacher(Quote)
@ausGeoff – Enjoy the video. One might even think I’m an Aussie! LOL
January 27th, 2012 at 4:49 am lunchboxthermos(Quote)
i just went to one here in taipei awhile ago, and the couple gave out packages of m&m-like candy with their FACES printed on them. gross.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:59 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
@TaiwanTeacher
Whaaat was that about? I thought it was part of the backing music (god how awful are midi karaoke music tracks…1996 called and wanted their BBS music hub back)
@lunchboxthermos
Ewww. That’s borderline cannabalism.
January 28th, 2012 at 6:50 pm TaiwanTeacher(Quote)
What can I say? It was the wedding reception for a ROCAF pilot. Those guys are a lot of fun to party with, and the food was great!
January 28th, 2012 at 8:31 pm Chubuobcat(Quote)
I went to a wedding that had M&M candies that had a mix of the happy wedding and pictures of the bride and groom on them.
It was a good gift but after learning the price per table I felt kind of bad about the Hong bao money that I gave them. I don;t think the entire wedding parties gift money could have covered half the price.
February 7th, 2012 at 9:18 am K. Chang(Quote)
In Chinese weddings and birthdays (known as “red events” as red is good for cheers, as opposed to white, or sad events) it is necessary to spread cheers around by giving gifts to all the guests. In the US, Chinese weddings usually have little knicknacks with small sweets like Hershey’s Kisses in oddball containers like transparent plastic fortune cookie in a keepsake box.
Though that happy candy is a new one.