Guo Dai Lai

For the Guo Dai Lai ceremony, Mom said that Sze’s family only needed to deliver lots of Tau Sar (Green Bean Paste) Biscuits and oranges plus a bottle of whisky. A Nyonya basket would be ideal for the delivery of such gifts on this occasion. But as we do not foresee the basket being used anymore after the wedding, we resorted to borrowing one instead.

Fortunately, Sze’s 4th Aunt was agreeable to lending us a small Nyonya basket, which we are thankful for. In addition, I also decorated my sister’s gift basket with red organza ribbons as we needed more baskets to present the Guo Dai Lai gifts. In fact, Mom was actually quite impressed with my DIY gift basket. It turned out to be pretty useful as my sis could use it too during her own wedding later on.

The baskets were used to deliver the Guo Dai Lai gifts consisting of 2 dozen Tau Sar Biscuits and another 2 dozen oranges, a bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky and an Angpow for Pin Kam (Bride Price, often incorrectly called dowry).


Both the baskets were also used again to deliver a similar set of gifts when Sze came to pick me up on the morning of the wedding day.