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Chinese New Year isn’t the
same without delicate love

Delicately thin and crisp, with the lovely fragrance Tear into a tin of Ah-Ma’s Traditional Nonya Love
of coconut and a delightfully toasty avour, love Letters (a best-seller!) or a bottle of NOYA love
letters quickly become addictive as soon as you letters. Be warned, though, it’s dif cult to stop at
take the rst bite. one… or six, for that matter. But it’s the festive
Love letters may seem deceptively easy to season so live a little, we say.
make but they are actually among the most Here’s some trivia on love letters should you
painstaking Chinese New Year snacks to produce need some ice-breakers during your coming
at home. What’s the next best thing to do? Chinese New Year visits:

Love letters are so named because in the Love letters are traditionally made over charcoal
olden days, when girls were not allowed braziers and back in a simpler, more leisurely time,
to meet boys without chaperones, producing them was a family affair.
lovebirds would tuck tender little notes in Matriarchs would squat beside the re, toasting the
the folds of the kueh kapit (the colloquial batter in at, patterned moulds before releasing them
name for love letters) and toss them over to another family member who would — often using a
the walls for their heartthrobs to nd. chopstick — quickly shape the hot crepes into rolls.

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