For the busy gourmet, Teochew Foodie’s gift baskets get dinner on the table super-fast.
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Family grocery counter Teochew Foodie brought Chaozhou-style Southern Chinese homemade wontons and rice rolls to Montreal in 2020. Always enthusiastic and creative marketers — and great cooks — they’ve got three practical, fun offerings for the holiday season.
The Chef’s Basket ($65) includes an eight-inch, two-layer bamboo steamer for preparing their specialties. “This kit is a good starter set for someone who’s always wanted to get into Asian cooking,” says Chanel Dai, co-owner of the St-Denis St. boutique. (I gifted myself a bamboo steamer from their cozy shop a few months ago and use it all the time, even for vegetables and fish.)
The gift box also contains two washable silicone mats to nestle inside each layer of the steamer, two porcelain bowls and five pairs of wooden chopsticks. To make your own dipping sauce, they’ve also put in a bottle of Chinese black vinegar and Teochew Foodie’s homemade chili oil, your choice of original or super-spicy.
For the busy gourmet, Teochew Foodie’s Frozen Basket ($53) gets dinner on the table super-fast: your choice of wontons, rice noodle rolls, pearl balls, a box of fried sesame balls and three of their homemade sauces — chili oil, vinegar and sesame — in a decorative cooler bag.
For dessert, check out the “fatcaron” box, a special collaboration with the Kānom sisters, containing jumbo frozen macarons with Asian ice-creamy fillings like pandan and coco, durian and sesame, matcha and hojicha.
From dinner to dessert, these are worth checking out. It’s a full-meal deal.
Teochew Foodie is at 3964a St-Denis St., 438-804-0270, teochewfoodie.ca.