40 Lunar New Year Goodies You Can Get From API-Owned Businesses

Time to put that LNY money to use 🤪🧧

1. A Lady M x My Melody Lunar New Year gift set to celebrate the New Year with some sweet treats from your favorite Sanrio character.

Lady M

This limited edition box includes plum blossoms for hope, a folding fan for luck, and decorative, confetti shaker red envelopes for prosperity. Each drawer includes various flavors of Lady M Bon Bons made in France, including Golden Tangerine Pearls, Prosperous Plum Blossoms, Lucky Lychee Pearls, Red Raspberry Jellies, Sweet Cookie Puffs, and Harmonious Matcha Crunch.

Lady M is a New York-based luxury confections brand that creates delicate cakes using French pastry techniques with Japanese sensibilities.

Get it from Lady M for $88.

2. A cat zodiac enamel pin as this Vietnamese New Year, the zodiac animal is actually the cat instead of the rabbit.

Sugar Cubed Studios

Sugar Cubed Studios designs all things cute and pop culture. Founder Vivian Tsai creates enamel pins, apparel, bags, decor, accessories, and more! The shop also creates enamel pins for the turtle, qilin, panda, and each of the zodiac animals.

Get it from Sugar Cubed Studios for $18 (available in Matte Red and Glitter Red).

3. Cute moon and bunny holographic stickers for celebrating both Lunar New Year AND the Mid-Autumn Festival for 2023.

May Lamei

May Lamei is a Nevada-based shop that sells handmade items such as art prints and stickers. The rabbit is being celebrated twice this year as it is the Year of the Rabbit and the people use rabbit merchandise to decorate during the Mid-Autumn festival.

Get it from May Lamei on Etsy for $4.50+ (available in two color options and a pack of two). 

4. An adorable Tayto the Potato Bunny Mochi Plush that can help you hold all of your Lunar New Year Money.

Smoko Inc.

Smoko Inc. is a California-based shop that creates the cutest plushies, hand warmers, homeware, apparel, and more! The shop works with emerging designers to bring functional and cute products to everyone's life. In addition to this Tayto the Potato Bunny Mochi Plush, the shop also has this Calico Cat Mochi Plush and a Garfield collection for those who celebrate the Year of the Cat!

Get it from Smoko for $42.

5. Our Lunar New Year, a book to teach the young ones what Lunar New Year is all about.

ByYobeQiu

Yobe Qiu is an author who saw a need for more multicultural children's books and decided to create her own stories that feature Asian characters and Asian culture. In addition to Our Lunar New Year, Qiu has also written children's books about Our Moon Festival, Our Double Fifth Celebration, books of affirmations, and more!

Get the hardcover from By Yobe Qiu for $14.95 (originally $17.97).

6. A large, reusable sticker book that'll hold all the new stickers you collect throughout the year.

ItsGeoffrey

Geoffrey Siu is a Hawaii-based artist who loves lettering, creating comics, and doing abstract paintings. The shop has various items including enamel pins, patches, vinyl stickers, washi tape, and more! The Zodiac animal design is also available as a button-up shirt! 

Get it from Geoffrey Siu for $45.

7. A Rabbit Moonlight Passion Planner to help you celebrate leaping to live your dreams and keep track of your daily activities.

Passion Planner

Passion Planner is a Filipino-owned, California-based shop that creates amazing yearly and daily planners along with stickers, calendars, and pens! A portion of the proceeds will go to the Malala Fund, an organization dedicated to "increasing education, financing, improving education quality and fighting harmful social norms that keep girls from learning around the world."

Promising review: "I have been using Passion Planners for a few years now, and I cannot live without my planners! The weekly layout is perfect for staying organized, and the medium size has just enough writing space and is easy to carry with me. The planners are also very durable and do not wear. I ordered this new planner recently, and the shipping process was veryRead more about review stating Passion Planner Fan simple and I never have any issues. I’m so excited to use the rabbit planner in the new year, it’s a beautiful design!" —Julia S.

Get it from Passion Planner for $50.99+ (available in three sizes, with Sunday or Monday start dates, and in five colors).

8. A Kitsby chocolate truffle trio kit so you can make chocolate truffles resembling fluffy bunny tails for the family!

Kitsby

Kitsby Cafe is an Asian-owned business based in Brooklyn. Inspired by childhood memories of baking days past, Kitsby (Kits-by-you) was made to bring people closer through sharing sweet moments and delicious desserts together. They utilize familiar flavors like yuzu, Chinese almond, hojicha, black sesame, and more.

Promising review: "Yessss!!!! Gifts for your mouth and your friends' mouths! I had been hinting to my friends to get me this kit, and now I've received at least three sets. My favorite is the matcha white chocolate truffle. I swap out the coconut flakes for a matcha dusting, and plop one of the rose petals up on top — elegant through and through! This kit is very fun to make. A bit on the tougher side, but as long as you read ahead in the instructions, you will be golden." —Jenn S.

Get it from Kitsby for $34.99.

9. A Lunar Apples scented candle to bring prosperity and good fortune into your or your loved ones' home.

Baisun Candle Co.

Baisun Candle Co. is a Chinese-owned, Delaware-based small business that creates handcrafted artisanal soy candles and strives to replicate specific notes that resemble the fragrances and aromas that many Asian Americans grew up surrounded with. In addition to this Lunar Apples scented candle, the shop also provides Lunar New Year-themed scents such as Candied Plum, Lucky Oranges, and Calm Tiger. 

Get it from Baisun Candle Co. for $20 (available with a cotton or crackling wooden wick).

10. A Year of the Rabbit jade necklace that represents elegance and responsibility — and to show everyone that it's your year to shine.

Seree

Seree is a woman-led, NYC-based jewelry business whose name comes from “serendipity” — an instance of finding something good accidentally. Their products are inspired by traditional jade jewelry passed down from generation to generation and designed with a contemporary, minimalistic style in mind. They offer jade, pearl, and other crystal jewelry as well as some accessories and homeware.

Get it from Seree for $68.

11. A Lucky Tummy Chinatown Treats wooden play set for when you're too full to eat but still want to have the yummy treats in the palm of your hand.

Keiki Kaukau

Keiki Kaukau was created by a Hawaiian mom and school teacher who creates beautiful, quality toys that authentically represent the Aloha State and its unique blend of cultures. For every play food set sold, Keiki Kaukau donates five meals to Hawai'i Food Bank, which helps feed one out of eight people in the state, including over 54,000 children.

Get it from Keiki Kaukau for $35. 

12. Some Little Bunnini bunny pastries to add some adorableness to your family dinner spread.

LittleBunnini / Instagram

Little Bunnini is a California-based shop where owner Rebecca Wu crafts each cake and pastry with care and makes them look like cute little animal characters, including bunnies, bears, frogs, seals, and more! The shop's Lunar New Year menu includes almond cookies, bunny melty cookies, wagashi bunny, and eclairs inspired by white rabbit candy with orange compote! 

DM Little Bunnini on Instagram for information about ordering. 

13. A chibi-style Fish Prawn Crab game so you can play your favorite New Year game with an adorable twist.

Helene's Happy Hobbies / Etsy

Helene's Happy Hobbies is a Vietnamese-owned, California-based shop that creates cute designs based on your favorite characters, foods, and animals. What's a Lunar New Year celebration without a little Bầu Cua Tôm Cá? This design is also available in T-shirt form!

Promising review: "This little game was something I always looked forward to at New Year and now I have the cutest version thanks to Helene! Shipping was super quick and everything came as described! Helene is super sweet and I am so excited to order more things from her in the future!" —Anita W.

Get them from Helene's Happy Hobbies on Etsy for $26.

14. A beautiful White Rabbit candle that will transport you right back to your childhood.

Mochiglow

Mochiglow is a California-based shop that turns your favorite snacks into candles, stickers, and wax melts. The shop's goal is to showcase the beauty of Asian cuisine, art, and tradition through the smells of their candles.

Promising review: "Childhood revisited. Nostalgia times 100! Smells like the lolly and noticed an earthy rice note for the rice paper! Loved it." —Dina H.

Get it from Mochiglow for $29. 

15. A pack of toasted black sesame oatmeal to eat with your Tang Yuan because sometimes we just want a little more black sesame.

Yishi Foods

Yishi Foods is a Chinese-owned, Illinois-based brand that creates Asian-inspired flavored oatmeal. Inspired by her mother's homemade breakfast porridge and the desire to eat more nutritious, tasty foods, founder Lin Jiang combined Asian flavors with oatmeal, making it better-tasting and bringing Yishi Foods to life. Each oatmeal cup is vegan and gluten-free and has zero added sugar, and some flavors are even keto-friendly! 

Promising review: "Best oatmeal ever! Okay. I don't generally write reviews but I feel like it's important for the world to know how good these are! I needed a quick breakfast before work and man I wasn't disappointed. Tastes like a dessert to me. I've tried all four flavors and they are all delicious. I bought 12-packs of black sesame and taro because for me they were the most delicious ones. They seem a little expensive, but if you think about how awesome the ingredients are they are worth it. Also, I'm vegan and these are vegan-friendly as well. I hope this company does well" —Janette

Get a single pack (with eight servings) from Yishi Foods for $5.95 (available in other flavors and larger packs).

16. Our Place's Year of the Rabbit collection so you can cook and eat your favorite meals with the best dishware.

Our Place

Our Place has a mission to connect people through home-cooked meals. According to their website, they "make products that connect people over home-cooking" and "believe that there is a transformative power in uplifting the differences in how people cook and eat together." The Year of the Rabbit–inspired rice bowls were each designed and hand-glazed by artist Vanilla Chi, a New York-based illustrator, designer, and independent publisher.

Get them from Our Place for $30+.

17. A Lunar New Year card that adds a lovely excerpt on the importance of the Year of the Rabbit to each Red Envelope exchange.

Post script

Post.script. is an Asian-owned gift shop based in San Francisco. Their assortment of stock includes an eclectic range of 100 curated brands across stationery, home goods, and accessories, with an emphasis on thoughtful, memorable gifts for all.

Get it from Post.script. for $6.

18. A zodiac animal red bookmark to keep track of your reading progress and help you get back to where you left off.

Kyari Kreations / Etsy

Kyari Kreations is a New York-based shop that creates a variety of super cute animal designs on stickers, tote bags, memo pads, washi tape, and more! Printed on these bookmarks are zodiac animals and the word "福" meaning "Good Fortune" in Chinese. Their Lunar New Year collection also includes adorable zodiac red envelopes, rabbit red envelopes, washi tape, stickers, and a tote bag. 

Get them from Kyari Kreations on Etsy for $4.63+.

19. This Year of the Rabbit embroidered hoodie so you can keep the cutest little friend in your pocket.

Ni De Mama

In Mandarin, "Ni De Mama" translates to "Your Mom." The shop celebrates the community with designs that highlight our shared experiences. In addition to this Year of the Rabbit hoodie, the shop also has red envelope, paper lantern, and firecracker designs! The Year of the Rabbit design is also available in sticker form, individually or in a pack, as well as sweatshirts, cropped sweatshirts, hats, and more.

Get it from Ni De Mama for $43.

20. A Lunar New Year 2023 envelope and sticker set to give unique red envelopes to your loved ones.

Cheery Human Studios

Cheery Human Studios is a California-based shop that creates bright and encouraging art, gift, and paper goods! Some of their products include washi tape, greeting cards, and stickers with cute and colorful designs. Check out their Lunar New Year collection to buy each piece and more individually!

Promising review: "I love the art style and quality of the stickers and envelopes. I bought these as a gift for a friend, but now I'm thinking I should by a set for myself. Shipping was super fast, and I really appreciated how well everything was packaged. I'm going to buy more from this store!" —Megan E

Get it from Cheery Human Studios for $40. 

21. A Year of the Rabbit + peace lily sticker for adding to your water bottles, laptops, and more!

Menmin Made

Menmin Made is a California-based artist who creates expressive watercolor art prints of plants, food, and floral designs. Each design is available as art prints or stickers with the goal to brighten up your space. The shop also provides a zodiac plant sticker pack that includes every animal in the zodiac.

Get it from Menmin Made for $4.

22. A Lunar New Year nail set reminding you to accept your red envelopes with both hands (and to show off your cute nails).

Nails By Kana / Instagram

Nails By Kana is a California-based shop that creates cute press-on nails for everyone to enjoy! In addition to these cute Lunar New Year–themed nails, the shop has also created pieces based on anime, games, Sanrio characters, holidays, and more. 

Promising review: "She was absolutely amazing! I asked if she could make these for me before my birthday (a week) and she delivered. She was so kind, patient, and explained everything so well. This will not be my only purchase from her and she deserves more love for her designs." —Trinity

Check out Nails By Kana's Linktree on Instagram to fill out a nail order form.

23. A stunning Year of the Rabbit crystal gemstone bracelet that'll add a bit of flair to any outfit.

Petit Anjou

Petit Anjou creates well-crafted and distinctively designed jewelry that won't irritate your skin. The brand was born from founder Jessica Liu's fondness for fashion and her experience trying to find jewelry that was compatible with sensitive skin. Proceeds from this bracelet will go to Love Bugs Rescue, a foster-based animal rescue that works with local overpopulated animal shelters to reduce the number of animals that are unnecessarily euthanized.

Get it from Petit Anjou for $205.

24. A Mandarin wood wick candle to make the room feel more fresh and lively while smelling like good fortune.

Emme Essentials

Emme Essentials is a New York-based shop that creates soy candles in reusable glass jars with a sustainable wood wick for a clean, even burn with less soot than cotton wicks, plus a soothing fireplace crackle. This candle is hand-poured and has up to 80 hours of burn time. In addition to this Mandarin candle, Emme Essentials also has Temple and White Rabbit scented candles included in their Lunar New Year collection. The first 100 orders of this collection will also come with a red envelope that containing real cash ranging from $1 to $100.

Get it from Emme Essentials for $42.

25. A TukTuk Box x Sans Lunar New Year set so you can end Dry January strong while donating to a good cause.

TukTuk Box

The set includes one heavy cotton canvas Lunar New Year tote, two 12-ounce Sans cans, one 1-ounce Pocket Latte chocolate bar, Pocket Latte matcha or Vietnamese Coffee almonds, a Lunar New Year red envelope with chocolate gold coins, Kevin's storycard + special gift, assorted Asian cakes and cookies, locally farmed Dardimans dried mandarin slices, and a Spread Asian Joy sticker.

Tuk Tuk Box was founded by two Southeast Asian American women who recognized the need to create a cross-cultural bridge to foster social change. The brand is a specialty food retailer offering curated Southeast Asian boxes and products, and they partner with vetted small business owners and local BIPOC farmers to share carefully crafted ingredients and recipes from their own community.

This Lunar New Year, TukTuk Box is partnering with Kevin Kreider and Sans to celebrate not only the New Year but also Dry January, a month-long public health campaign that encourages people to stay sober.⁠

Get the full set from TukTuk Box for $60.