Sweets

CREATIVE GIFT IDEAS FOR THOSE RAN OUT OF GIFT IDEAS

June 5, 2017 by Little Miss Honey 1,666 Comments

One of the hardest thing to do is looking for gift ideas when you just run out of ideas. My brain is fried from overthinking at work and handling domestic stuff at home, I couldn’t think of a great gift to give my officemate to congratulate her achievement in her career. I went to the mall and was so overwhelmed with the various choices and none of it seems original or memorable. On top of it, my son’s birthday is coming soon by the end of the month. I need to buy birthday pouches to giveaway for his schoolmates.

Fortunately, in my recent trip to Marina Square Mall and dropping by Sophisca, I finally found inspirations.

Sophisca is a Taiwan Specialty Candy Brand that is available in Singapore at Marina Square Mall and Changi Airport Terminal 3. It was started in 1997 and became a favorite confectionary shop by many. It is dubbed as “A Place For Sweethearts” and you can tell why because they give their customers the perfect sweetness with their products & packaging.

If in doubt, just give sweets. What is not to like? My officemate loves sweets and beauty products so I have found the perfect gift for her.

A Sophisca Lipstick Giftbox! It is a chocolate looking like a real lipstick. My son doesn’t believe that it is really chocolate. I tried on for myself and I encourage him to eat one. He was initially too scared to try. Hahaha! When he did bit on it, he just took it happily from my hands. It is packaged beautifully in a hot pink and black hard box with a ribbon. It retails at $24.90 per set. It is available for a limited time only. Each pack features (at random) three flavours of Tipsy Chocolate, Hazelnut Latte, Hot Chili Lips, Blueberry Yogurt, Rose or Berries. It is such a cute creative gift and my officemate love it so much. She doesn’t want to eat it and instead keep showing it to her other friends and family.

I was also jubilant to find the Happy Birthday Wish Pouch ($10.90) for my son’s birthday bashes in school. Goodie bags are taken care of. Each pouch contains a mish-mash of rice/fruit chocolate and marshmallows. No worries and very fuss-free for mommies like me and my son approves.

Besides these as gift ideas, Sophisca also have the ever-popular ‘SMILE’ round gift box ($18.90) and the classic ‘PIANO’ black-and-white box ($18.90), all filled with the brand’s staples of fruity bons bons, chocolates, cookies and hard candies.

So in case, you ran out of gifting ideas, head over to Sophisca branches to inspire you.
Sophisca Singapore
Marina Square #02-32 (Operating hours: Daily, 11am to 9pm)
Changi Airport Terminal 3 #B2-42 (Operating Hours: Daily, 10am to 11pm)
Website: www.sophisca.sg

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post in collaboration with Sophisca. This was a media invite. We got a Sophisca goody bag after the event. No monetary compensation is involved. All opinions are my own. Regardless, I only recommend products which I personally believe will be good for my readers.

A SWEET CHRISTMAS FROM SOPHISCA

December 13, 2016 by Little Miss Honey 1,261 Comments

Two Sundays ago, my family and I headed to Marina Square to celebrate A Sweet Christmas Party with Sophisca.

Sophisca is a Taiwan Specialty Candy Brand that is available in Singapore at Marina Square Mall and Changi Airport Terminal 3. It was started in 1997 and became a favorite confectionary shop by many. It is dubbed as “A Place For Sweethearts” and you can tell why because they give their customers the perfect sweetness with their products & packaging.

Along with fellow bloggers and their families, we get to enjoy a sweet wonderful time with Sophisca to jumpstart the merry mood for the yuletide season. We were introduced with the Sophisca Christmas Collection 2016. There were so many to choose from, with lots of pretty and creative packaging and prices can go as low as $2.

Here are some of them:

Christmas Stockings Blue Santa Gift $12.30

Christmas Surprises bag (Lamb) $7.90

Christmas Snow-Lamb Bag (Green) $11.90

Christmas Wishing Reindeer $23.90

Christmas Lunchbox Set $15.90

They are just perfect for the holidays. “Santa Clauses” can get the prepared Christmas stockings with prepacked sweet goodies in it for thier “good boys and girls”. They are great gifts for your nephews, nieces, your friends and your friends’ kids. It is also a fussfree token to giveaway to your colleagues at work that fits the theme of Christmas.

It was a fun sight with all the families checking out and sampling the goodies that Sophisca has to offer. My toddler a.k.a. the sweets-monster, was so happy with all the candies & chocolates he got to sample. He was definitely in sugar-high.

Sophisca had a sumptuous lunch prepared for us . There was also an artist available that can draw a caricature of you and your family on the spot. We were not able to do that because our toddler can sit still for a good one minute and our 9months old also can be a bit wiggly, hahaha. There was also a booth for us to print our photos from our phone on the spot.

Sophisca also not only have their Christmas Collection. They have other fun and quirky candies and sweet that would suit any occasion like the True Words Collection, lipstick chocolate (yes, it’s edible, First Aid sweets, etc.)

This 5 to 26 December, if you spend $60 in a single receipt at the Marina Square Christmas Atrium (located at the square outside Zara) or in the Sophisca store in Marina Square (#02-32), you get a chance to win a treat plucked from their Christmas tree and a $10 voucher. Also all NTU Alumni can enjoy 15% discount (minimum spend of $5) at Sophisca Marina Square from December 1 to 31, 2016. And great news for DBS/POSB cardholders, they will get 10% discount for regular items purchased in all Sophisca outlets.

Do visit their shop or go to their e-shop. Advanced Merry Christmas, everyone!

Thank you Sophisca for organizing such a sweet Christmas Party for us!

Sophisca Singapore

Marina Square #02-32 (Operating hours: Daily, 11am to 9pm)

Changi Airport Terminal 3 #B2-42 (Operating Hours: Daily, 10am to 11pm)

Website: www.sophisca.sg

GREAT GIFT IDEAS: SOPHISCA TRUE WORDS “SINGAPORE STYLE” CHOCOLATES

June 27, 2016 by Little Miss Honey 1,522 Comments

I often rack my brain what to bring home to my family and friends in the Philippines from Singapore. I want to give them something that is a uniquely Singaporean treat. I have brought them usual merlion chocolates too many times already. I got excited when I learned about Sophisca, a Taiwan Specialty Candy Brand, has launched a True Words “Singapore Style” Chocolates. Singlish is something that is uniquely Singaporean. So Sophisca has newly launched 16 cute tiles of chocolates with a Singlish phrase (except for the I ❤️ SG) like “Huat Ah”, “Shiok“, etc. It’s nice to introduce other people to the magical words of Singlish. It is a great gift idea to give to family and friends when travelling.

Here are some of the Singlish words & phrases and their meanings:

Paiseh – shy or embarrassing

Huat Ah – so prosperous

Lobang – opportunity

Shiok – cool; great; delicious; superb

Relak Lah – chill or relax

Kaisu – afraid

Blur As Sotong – don’t know what is going on or don’t know you are doing

Sophisca was started in 1997 and became a favorite confectionary shop by many. It is dubbed as “A Place For Sweethearts” and you can tell why because they give their customers the perfect sweetness with their products & packaging.

This is the first Sophisca True Words collection designed and customed to a particular country except Taiwan, of course, where Sophisca originated. Since Singapore National Day is coming around very soon in August, these can also be served on parties or gifts of companies to their employees to remind them of National Day.

The Sophisca True Words “Singapore Style” chocolates packaging look so cute with its cartoons and bright colors. Each box cost $2.90 with 3 packets of chocolates inside.

I love that they have opened a branch in Changi Airport Terminal 3 #B2-42. So convenient for my quick shopping to my travel destination. These will definitely be my go-to take-home gifts whenever I travel back to the Philippines or when I am travelling to any other countries & I need thank-you gifts to my host or to my foreigner friends.

Sophisca Singapore

Marina Square #02-32 (Operating hours: Daily, 11am to 9pm)
Changi Airport Terminal 3 #B2-42 (Operating Hours: Daily, 10am to 11pm)

Website: www.sophisca.sg

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post in collaboration with Sophisca We received the 4 box of the Sophisca True Words Singapore Style chocolates for free. No monetary compensation is involved. All opinions are my own. Regardless, I only recommend products which I personally believe will be good for my readers.