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Gift via delivery, celebrate at home: It’s the season to share – safely!
These thoughtful deliveries will be a delight and bring good cheer for both recipient and sender, especially as most of us will be celebrating Christmas and ringing in the new year at home.
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xchanging food and gifts by delivery services is becoming increasingly common during the pandemic, partly because people have limited occasions to see each other in person. Using a delivery, pickup or takeaway service is therefore a good way to maintain ties and show support for one another – from a distance.
Now that 2020 will wrap up soon and the year-end holiday season is just around the corner, there’s an even better reason to send boxed gifts and care packages to friends, relatives and business partners. These thoughtful deliveries will be a delight and bring good cheer for both recipient and sender, especially as most of us will be celebrating Christmas and ringing in the new year at home.
While hotel restaurants are preparing to open for the year-end festivities, which might be how we mark the holiday season in normal times, it is still safest to stay home for our own health as well as the health of all others around us. So instead of dressing up and eating out in style, how about ordering seasonal gift packages or even meals from these establishments for a gourmet feast at home? Sending them to a loved one is also a great idea.
For those who fancy sweet treats, the Kempi Deli at Hotel Indonesia Kempinski Jakarta is offering Christmas hampers filled with cashew speculoos, chocolate choux peanut butter, cinnamon raspberry and chocolate grissini, and much more.
As for fans of the goodies at SATOO Deli of Shangri-La Hotel Jakarta, it has a selection of gift baskets filled with cookies and chocolate pralines or meringues and chocolate bars to suit everyone’s sweet tooth.
Feel like you want to forget all restrictions and have the freedom to assemble your own bespoke package? JW Marriott Hotel Jakarta is offering Create-Your-Own-Hampers with a wide range of selections to spice up the holidays, like traditional fruit cake, homemade jams, panettone, stöllen, macarons, oatmeal cranberry cookies, banana cake, caramelized almonds, paprika cashew nuts and even tom yum cashew nuts.
Meanwhile, to feed the inner Cookie Monster in us, look no further than the signature chocolate chip cookies at DoubleTree by Hilton Jakarta-Diponegoro. If you fancy something else, then there is also lapis cake, ginger cookies and many other celebratory delights.
Those with palates and eyes for more contemporary cakes can check out the offerings at the Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta, complete with festive, wintry names. The Nutcracker Story is a composition of Alps yogurt mousse, acacia honey sponge and homemade walnut praline. Prefer something with a hint of Java? Well then, Wonder Xmas might be for you, created with chestnut mousse, Arabica sponge, waffle crunch and cocoa rum cream.
Even better, gifting is not limited to just cookies and cakes at the JW Marriott, DoubleTree and Four Seasons, which are all offering Christmas dinners for pickup or delivery.
Bring JW Marriott’s festive feast to your home with the Turkey doorstep delivery service. The hotel’s signature roasted turkey, which serves up to eight, can be had by ordering 48 hours in advance, with a variety of side dishes from roasted potato, to Brussels sprouts with beef bacon to bacon-wrapped chipolata and cranberry sauce.
DoubleTree has on its menu the Christmas Carving Set with roasted whole turkey, beef Wellington and beef tomahawk, as well as classic fare like roasted chicken with cranberry sauce and rosemary gravy and Yule log cake. Its Christmas menu for takeaway or delivery also features Indonesian favorites such as sup iga (beef rib soup), beef rendang (spiced stewed beef) and gulai ikan (fish cooked in coconut milk with herbs and spices).
And Four Seasons is boasting the Festive 2 Go: crispy-skinned roasted turkey with beef bacon and organic chicken stuffing, giblet sauce, cranberry sauce, candied almonds and roasted seasonal vegetables. For those who prefer heartier dishes, never fear: there’s also beef Wellington, beef and egg picnic loaf pie, crown lamb roast and a cheese platter.
So immerse yourself in creativity in this year’s joy of giving, even as you prepare to receive equally creative gifts, because this is the season to share!
