It’s customary in Chinese culture (and others) to gift fruit during lunar new year – are there any places in Melbourne that sell premium boxed fruits?
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It’s customary in Chinese culture (and others) to gift fruit during lunar new year – are there any places in Melbourne that sell premium boxed fruits?
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Posted by c________yj
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You might have some luck in Box Hill central
Try Costco?
Big Watermelon (and I’m sure other places) still sell Tasmanian cherries. A 2kg box is impressive and fantastic as a CNY gift.
Or else up market greengrocers will sell boxes of lychees. Be aware though – Australian grown lychees are not quite at the standard of overseas ones yet.
Yearning for Don Don Donki in Australia…
Could you buy your own box and put normal fruit in it?
Try Tang in Balwyn, or one of their other stores.
Quality wise, you can get 2kg premium cherries from Queen Vic Market, the Japanese peach, grapes, rockmelon, watermelon or Japanese/Korean Strawberries I’ve never really seen here before.
I assume the Asian groceries may do a special run for Chinese New Year, but it’s not easy to find as you would in Asia.
Queens Harvest, Vic market. We ordered some hampers for Chinese clients who loved them
I’ve seen boxes fruit at KT mart seasonally plus posters promoting.
I think I saw boxes similar to that at Hokkien Market in Burwood (where K-mart is, in the old First Choice liquor site- can’t say for sure they were fruit as I wasn’t looking for fruit at the time. There is another very good Asian grocer further up Blackburn rd.
Would getting an empty gift box somewhere and picking through for the best fruits at a market also work?