Mid-Autumn Festival: The Ritual of Gifting
It’s the Mid-Autumn season again and you know what that means - lanterns, mooncakes, tea, and a whole lot of gifts! Giving gifts to those around you for Mid-Autumn Festival is steeped within tradition. Mid-Autumn is often viewed to be an occasion for expressing goodwill and gratitude towards those in your social circles and it’s common to give gifts to friends and relatives during this season. Gifting symbolises good luck where families will send guests home with a gift to nibble on and reminisce about gatherings to come.
While typical gifts entail mooncakes and fruit baskets, our retailers at Downtown Gallery and Mandarin Gallery have decided to explore alternative gift ideas to help you show gratitude to your loved ones. We have compiled a list of unique, yet thoughtful gift ideas from exciting deals happening at both malls this September, so read on to find out more!
Spill the tea (and the wine)
The Providore
The Providore is located at Downtown Gallery #B1-07 to 17, and at Mandarin Gallery #02-05 to 07, #02-25 to 27
A perfect blend of traditional ideas and modern flavours, The Providore's Moonlight White Tea is a light-tasting and fragrant brew that balances the sweetness of mooncakes perfectly, making it a great gift to enjoy during the Mid-Autumn festivities.
With tea leaves grown at an extreme altitude of over 2,000m and average temperatures ranging between 10°C and 20°C, Moonlight White is bound to leave a soft, mild, and fruity bouquet in your cup that can be enjoyed all day with or without accompanying sweets.
Head on down to The Providore to grab your tea-loving family and friends a delectable gift!
atomi
atomi is located at Mandarin Gallery at #04-26/27
Exclusive Ceramic Teacup Set and THE Coaster
We all love a good tea and mooncake pairing to enjoy with friends and family during Mid-Autumn Festival. What's left would be quality tea ware to accompany you on your family reunion this Season!
The Exclusive Ceramic Teacup Set is made specially by Oda Pottery for atomi, available in an ethereal celadon blue colour. Thanks to their luminescent quality, the teacups also double as beautiful tea light holders, making them a great and versatile gift. Complete your gift with THE Coaster for the teacup set that is functional and aesthetically pleasing! Made of ceramic with excellent water resistance, THE Coaster is unlike cloth and paper coasters as it does not stick onto the base of glasses and cups when lifted.
Yanagi Wine Glass
If you are looking to liven up the joyous occasion, wine makes a lavish pairing for mooncakes, and their quality wine glass is just the finishing touch you need!
The Yanagi Wine Glass, available in sizes S and L, is a reprint of Sori Yanagi's design released in 1979, who was a pioneer of Japanese industrial design. A quintessential piece to add to your glassware collection or gift your loved ones, as the Yanagi Wine Glass features a generous and thick bottom for stability and easy handling during wine nights and gatherings.
Drop by their boutique at #04-26/27 at Mandarin Gallery to grab these Mid-Autumn essentials, while stocks last!
ACTUS häuse
ACTUS häuse is located at Mandarin Gallery at #04-28
TELESTO Pinot Noir Wine Glass Set (Set of 6)
For the wine drinkers among us, ACTUS häuse is showcasing some quality and elegant stemware to enjoy your favourite wine, champagne, and mooncakes!
The TELESTO Pinot Noir Wine Glass Set is the perfect gift for wine lovers as the glasses are hand-blown and perfectly weighted to elevate the experience of various wine bouquets and flavours with a touch of elegance and flair.
KALYKE Mixed Sparkling Wine Glass (Set of 6)
Besides wine, champagne is another versatile pairing that complements well with most mooncakes - from traditional lotus seed mooncakes to delicate flavours of snow skin mooncakes.
The KALYKE Sparkling Wine Glass Set gives champagnes and sparkling wines a new dimension and a refreshing perspective due to the elegant curves and delicate lines that mirror the sharp angles of the glasses. Sold as a set of six glasses in six different colours, the KALYKE Sparkling Wine Glasses are also perfect drink markers to help you easily identify your drinks when you have guests over for home parties.
Check out their boutique at #04-28 Mandarin Gallery to find these stylish wine glasses and many other lifestyle items curated just for you!
Health is wealth
CLMB
CLMB is located at Downtown Gallery at #02-04
Looking for ways to burn off some calories from those delicious mooncakes with your loved ones? Or do you have family or friends who are just fitness fanatics? Introduce them to CLMB, Singapore’s 1st versa climbing studio located right in the heart of CBD where you can burn up to 800 calories with just 45 minutes on the versa climber.
But that’s not all they have to offer! CLMB also incorporates high intensity interval training and resistance training to provide our members with a well-rounded and effective workout. It’s a sensational experience coupled with vibrant lights and music pumping through your veins. It’s where you unleash the peak of your potential.
Exercise sessions at CLMB can be an amazing gift as you are not only keeping fit and healthy, but you get to bond with your loved ones while doing so. Nothing brings people closer than exercising together, encouraging one another, and feeling the combined rush of adrenaline after!
NuE Shape
NuE Shape is located at Downtown Gallery #03-18
Let your skin glow as brightly and beautifully as the moon this Mid-autumn with NuE Shape, a trusted beauty salon committed to providing beauty and wellness services in Singapore!
At NuE Shape, they offer only the best, warmest, and most inviting service to all their clientele. Their extensive selection of professional beauty treatments includes facials, slimming treatments, revitalizing massage therapy and hair removal. With their relaxing and cozy environment, a trip to NuE Shape would be the perfect gift for both you and your loved ones to ease life’s weariness and stress.
Limited to the month of September only, enjoy 3 sessions of biweekly facial treatments with Dermo expert peeling at only $288 (UP: $600). Utilising deep sea mud minerals, this treatment is excellent for exfoliating dark and red acne scars and decongesting clogged pores or oily skin. What’s even better – first timers get to enjoy their first trial at only $128!
Additionally, NuE Shape is also providing 2 different unlimited hair removal packages. Their 2 months unlimited trial package is $488 for half lower body hair removal, which includes full legs, Brazilian, and toes. Their 3 months unlimited trial package is $988 for your full body, including full legs, arms, Brazilian, and toes.
Sign up on the first week of September to be eligible for their Early Bird discount and get 1 extra month of unlimited hair removal!
Flaming Queen
Flaming Queen is located at Mandarin Gallery at #02-31/32
Who doesn’t love fragrances? Scented candles and diffusers are proven to have health benefits, and they are becoming increasingly popular gifts for people who want to spruce up their living spaces. Alongside your lanterns, Flaming Queen’s selection of scented candles would be something else to light up this year!
Their extensive selection of home fragrances is bound to be a unique yet thoughtful gift this festive season. Just for this September, they are promoting Locherber Milano, an Italian brand.
Hailing from Milan, Locherber Milano is a luxury lifestyle and fragrance brand with a commitment to keeping Italian artisanal talent and craftsmanship alive. Priding itself on being 100% authentic and made in Italy, Locherber Milano will take you and your loved ones on a unique scented journey. Fragrances include Agathis Amber, Tuscan Feeling, Rhubarbe Royale, and many more!
From 1st to 30th September, buy two Locherber Milano Scented Candles and get one free! (UP: $89 - $750 ea.). The promotion is valid while stocks last, and the free item applies for the one with the lowest price. Check in store for more information on the deals and fragrances available.
