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Sprucing Up Your Kitchen for Chinese New Year

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03
Jan

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Sprucing Up Your Kitchen for Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is a time for family gatherings, sumptuous feasts, and the beginning of a fresh new chapter. As we prepare to usher in the Year of the Snake, many households take the opportunity to give their kitchens a much-needed facelift. After all, the kitchen is the heart of any celebration, especially during the festive season. If you’re looking for ways to spruce up your kitchen and make it both functional and festive, ToTT Store has just what you need!

Upgrade Your Cookware for Festive Feasts

No Chinese New Year celebration is complete without a table brimming with delicacies. Investing in quality cookware can make your preparation smoother and more enjoyable.

  • Safico Woks and Pans: Perfect for stir-frying your family’s favorite dishes, from fragrant garlic prawns to savory stir-fried noodles. These durable pans ensure even heat distribution for restaurant-quality results.
  • Lava Cast Iron Casseroles: Ideal for slow-cooked delicacies like pencai, braised pork belly or nourishing soups, Lava casseroles are both functional and aesthetically pleasing.

Essential Prep Tools

Make your food preparation more efficient with these must-have tools:

  • Benriner Turning Slicer: Effortlessly elevate your Yu Sheng preparation this Chinese New Year with the Benriner Turning Slicer! Designed to make slicing fruits and vegetables a breeze, it ensures consistently sized, professional-looking pieces that are perfect for festive presentations
  • Zyliss Swift Dry Salad Spinner: Keep your greens fresh and crisp with this efficient salad spinner. Ideal for washing and drying vegetables, it’s perfect for prepping fresh ingredients for your Chinese New Year dishes.

Add Festive Touches with Serveware

Presentation matters, especially during the Chinese New Year, when we’re showcasing prosperity and abundance.

  • Lohei / Yusheng Platter: Elevate your dining experience with a stylish and functional platter that’s perfect for serving Yusheng, a must-have dish for Chinese New Year.
  • Rooster Series Tableware: Celebrate the season with vibrant tableware featuring traditional rooster motifs, symbolizing luck and prosperity. These pieces add a festive and culturally rich touch to your dining table.
  • Chopsticks with goldfish cap: A delightful addition to your festive table, these chopsticks add a whimsical touch while embodying the spirit of good fortune.

Bake to Impress

Chinese New Year is also a time to gift homemade goodies like pineapple tarts and almond cookies.

  • Cuisinart Stand Mixers: Whether you’re kneading dough for buns or whipping batter for cakes, this powerful and stylish stand mixer is a game-changer.
  • Nordic Ware Bundt Pans:Create beautifully shaped cakes that are sure to impress your guests and add a festive flair to your desserts.

Cleaning Made Easy

After the feast, comes the cleanup. These cleaning tools can help you wrap up quickly and efficiently:

A well-equipped and organized kitchen sets the tone for a smooth and joyful Chinese New Year celebration. Visit TOTT Store to find everything you need to refresh your kitchen and start the year on a high note. From cookware to serveware, baking tools to cleaning supplies, TOTT Store has got you covered.

Here’s to a prosperous and delicious Year of the Snake!

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8 Red Hot Kitchenware to spruce up your kitchen for CNY

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28
Jan

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8 RED HOT KITCHENWARE TO SPRUCE UP YOUR KITCHEN FOR CNY

Let’s go all red for Chinese New Year! Red symbolises good luck, joy, and happiness. We handpicked eight red hot kitchenware to brighten up your tables for the New Year!

LAVA Cast Iron Casserole

Whip up a prosperity feast to usher in the Chinese New Year with your family and friends. Serve them up right from the stove in this eye-catching and vibrant Cast Iron Casserole from LAVA. It is perfect for braising, roasting and stewing ingredients. Three layers of beautiful porcelain enamel are fired twice for maximum beauty, lasting durability and superb cooking performance. Did we mention it is pre-seasoned too? You do not have to spend the extra time to season your new pot before you start cooking. Comes in other vibrant colours and sizes too!

Mastrad Mini Chopper

Looking for a handy kitchen tool to speed up your cooking preparation? This compact, non-slip mini chopper from Mastrad helps you to chop your garlic, onions and shallots in a jiffy. Simply twist the wheel on its lid for about 30 seconds to chop 100 grams of ingredients. Remove the blade and double up as a serving or storage bowl. No more teary eyes when you chop the dreaded onion!

Mastrad Silicone Quick Tongs

Designed to grab, turn, mix and serve your food with care and precision, the Mastrad 12″ Silicone Quick Tongs is a must-have for every kitchen. The heat-resistant silicone tips have a non-slip surface, which allows them to precisely grip even the smallest portions. Ideal for use with non-stick cookware, the tongs stand upright, open and close easily, and have a removable base for emptying running juices

KitchenAid Stand Mixer

Love the smell of freshly-baked CNY goodies? The KitchenAid Stand Mixer comes equipped with a powerful mixer that mix, knead and whip your ingredients with ease. It includes a wire whisk, flat beater, and a dough hook, which is handy for baking pineapple tarts and cookies this festive season. For more versatility, the attachment hub transforms the mixer into a pasta maker so you can create your wonton wrappers from scratch.

Available at ToTT stores from $1,099.

Nordic Ware Angel Food Cake Pan

Are you ready to present your show-stopping bakes during this CNY? Bake a delicious Yuzu chiffon cake (https://tottstore.com/recipes/yuzu-with-grapefruit-pulp-chiffon-cake/) using Nordic Ware Angel Food Cake pan. With an integrated centre tube, this pan ensures uniform heat distribution which allows a well-baked and fluffy cake to be achieved.

Mastrad Pastry Sheet

A favourite among chefs. Roll out your pastry dough like a pro with Mastrad Pastry Sheet. With its flexible non-stick surface, heat resistant to 230 °C; you can prep and bake on it while cutting down clean up time and use of baking sprays. The measuring guides printed on the surface makes baking a breeze – no more pulling out a ruler with doughy hands to measure!

Zevro Classic Single Canister Dry Food Dispenser

Banish the clutter from your kitchen with this stylish high-quality dispenser from Zevro. The compact design makes it easy to fit on most countertops. The dispenser is ideal for cereals, pasta, coffee beans, nuts, sweets and more. Simply twist the knob and portion out any dry food you want!

Cole & Mason Red Oxford Gloss Pepper & Salt Mill 

Bring vibrant strokes of colour and style to your kitchen countertop or dining table with Cole & Mason’s Oxford Red Gloss Pepper & Salt Mill. Using a ceramic mechanism, the traditionally shaped mills optimizes the flavour of sea salt crystals or peppercorns and adjusts grinding levels from fine to coarse by tightening or loosening the knob on the lid.

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8 Chinese New Year Recipes with a twist

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24
Dec

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8 Chinese New Year Recipes with a twist

Usher in a Bountiful Lunar New Year with ToTT! For the Year of Rat, try out these 8 fuss-free recipes that infuses fresh ideas into old-school classics!

  1. Passion Fruit Yu Sheng

Whip out your own unique take of yusheng this CNY! With all the festive feasting since Christmas, this Passion Fruit Yu Sheng is a lighter but equally yummy version of the traditional dish. Toss in your raw salmon slices, crackers and get started!

Recommended equipment: Nachtmann Crystal Plate Large

2. Banana Nian Gao French Toast

Nian Gao which is also known as sticky rice cake is a must-have to ring in CNY. For breakfast with a twist, combine Nian Gao and banana slices sandwiched in between slices of golden toasts. Simple, child-friendly and tasty!

Recommended equipment: Lacor Non-Stick Square Grill Pan With Insulated Handle

3. Crispy Bakkwa Cookies

Went overboard and bought too much bak kwa?
Turn your leftover bak kwa into sweet, savoury and crunchy cookies in just under 35 mins with this fuss-free recipe ! Don’t forget to cool them with the Nordic Ware Stackable Cooking Grid to ensure that they are crispy before storing them in your cookies jars.

Recommended equipment: Nordic Ware Stackable Cooling Grid

4. Wontan Fortune Cookies

Instead of your traditional fortune cookies, try out this easy recipe which requires only three ingredients – dumpling wrappers, butter and sugar! Fill them with your own personal fortunes for a fun and delicious crafty treat with the family.

Recommended equipment : Nordic Ware Compact Ovenware Muffin Pan

5. Rose Dumplings

Make this Chinese New Year extra special with these juicy rose dumplings. A fun feast for both the eyes and the palate. Dip the dumplings in the homemade sauce for that extra punch!

Recommended equipment:  Zebra Mixing Bowl

6. Pineapple Orange Punch

After that hearty reunion dinner, try this refreshing pineapple orange punch instead of the usual cordial. Make them with your kids by simply blending pineapple and oranges and top them off with berries, cherries and even mandarin oranges!

Recommended equipment: Jamie Oliver Acrylic Jug

7. Chicken and Pomelo Salad

Get in some greens this festive season! This light tangy salad is not only great as an appetiser, it is also packed with vitamins and fiber! Save time with the Benriner Plastic Vegetable Slicer with perfectly cut vegetables where no fingers will be hurt too!

Recommended equipment: Benriner Plastic Vegetable Slicer

8. Mandarin Orange Pretzel Dessert

A lighter version of a traditional New York cheesecake, the Mandarin Orange Pretzel dessert is a must-have for any dinner parties. This no-bake dessert will keep you stress-free in the kitchen and will certainly wow your guests.

Recommended equipment: Jamie Oliver Non-Stick Baking Tray

9. Bonus! Chinese New Year Themed Cooking & Baking Class.

With a new year around the corner, celebrate and learn a new skill with our exclusive Chinese New Year classes! What’s more, we have 1 for 1 CNY Special classes, grab a partner and enjoy the class together! Let us usher in prosperity together for the new year ahead!

Check out our Chinese New Year Classes here.