What should give to foreigner friends?

Are you confused about what to give to your friends, clients, business partners who are foreigners that travel to Vietnam to work or travel? Or when you are travelling to oversea, you want to pick a meaningful souvenir for your foreigner friends. Cups.vn is very honour to present you TOP 5 POPULAR MEANINGFUL VIET SOUVENIRS FOR FOREIGNERS!

1. Wicker coasters:

Anyone who has respect and appreciate Vietnam culture, the hard work of craftsman will probably love these beautiful handmade souvenirs. Wicker coasters contain the delicate of labour’s beauty, all are made by craftsmen’s hands, have high spiritual value. This is one of the perfect souvenir ideas for foreigners who love Vietnam’s culture.

Wicker coaster is one of the best unique gifts for foreigners

• Advantages: light, neat, being woven with rattan and bamboo. The materials of wicker coasters are all entirely from nature. They are treated against termites which makes it durable and friendly to the environment. Since this product has high durable quality, reaches sharp-witted, it can be used outdoor without being Oxidized or damaged, rotted
• Disadvantages: Simple, not too fancy
• Price: Only from 29.000 VNĐ / pieces (depend on quantity)
• Source: at CUPS.VN (29 Nam Chau, Ward 11, Tân Bình District, HCMC)

2. Handmade lacquer painting:

Lacquer is one of the most popular painting material in Vietnam. It is the combination of searching, development of Viet traditional painting technique into Lacquer painting technique.

Handmade lacquer painting is suitable to be a gift for Foreigners because of high artistic and aesthetic.

• Advantages: The handmade lacquer painting is made by traditional Viet craftsman’s hands, has high historical value. The distinctive features of colours and materials have created a beauty that is both luxurious and national of Handmade lacquer painting, very close to contemporary trend.
• Disadvantages: take lots of space, bulky, struggling in moving.
• Price: from 500,000 VND – 7.000.000 VND
• Source: You can buy this product on these famous Handmade lacquer painting websites tranhsonmaivn.com; malanaz.com

3. Handmade pottery:

Viet pottery is very chastity, realism, reflect the day-life of Vietnamese citizens. Bringing not only the beauty of chastity, sincerity but also luxury

Thanks to the beauty of its soul, Handmade pottery is being chosen by lots of Vietnamese to be gift for foreigners

• Advantages: these products show the beauty of charming, aesthetic from the shapes to the patterns. All these combinations show the creation with the artfulness of Viet Craftsman 
• Disadvantages: take lots of spaces, bulky, struggling in moving, breakable, pricey.
• Price: from 1.000.000 VND – 5.000.000 VND
• Source: you can buy this product on these websites ( gomsuhoanggia.com ; gomsuhochiminh.com )

4. Conical Hat:

The Viet Conical Straw Hat with Ao Dai has become the simple of Vietnam nowadays. The Conical Straw Hat contains the beauty of East Asia’s traditional. It does not only have the chastity beauty of Vietnamese but also a meaningful souvenir.

The Viet Conical Straw Hat is a significant gift that contains the high value of culture.

• Advantages: Although this Conical Hat is chastity but it has a high value of East Asia’s culture and spirit. The straw is knitted by clever hands of Viet craftsman, contains the beauty of labour, associated with the history of the Nation of Vietnam.
• Disadvantages: breakable, difficult to preserve
• Price: From 30.000 VNĐ – 40.000 VNĐ 
• Source: Conical Hats are now sold in many tourist destinations throughout Vietnam with a variety of size, colors. You also can buy this hat in some famous landmarks in Ho Chi Minh city like Ben Thanh Market, Souvenir shops in district 1,…

5. Bamboo Tea Cup:

Bamboo Tea Cup is absolutely made from Original Natural Bamboo, non-toxic, being taken good care by experienced craftsman’s hands. Therefore, this product has been created not only simple, chastity but also elegant and delicate.

Bamboo Tea Cup is very suitable to be a gift for a foreigner because of the high applicability.

• Advantages: neat, portable, unbreakable. Safe for users, environment. Contain strong Nation spirit, high applicability. Anytime the user use it, they will remind you
• Disadvantages: Can not be soaked in water for too long, store in a cool, dry place
• Price: only from 39.000 VNĐ/ cup (depends on quantity)
• Source: at CUPS.VN (29 Nam Chau, Ward 11, Tân Bình District, HCMC)

Besides that, you also can custom image, condensed message, slogan on the cup to deliver messages, increase more value and significance. It will be a unique gift that you spent your effort to custom the gift.

  Tips: Some taboos you should know when you want to pick a gift for foreigners in some Countries

For Japanese, when you choose a gift for friends, partners, bosses who are Japanese, you should find out carefully what should and should not give. For example, you should avoid giving a gift that relates to number 4 or 9. Shouldn’t give comb, anything that has fox image, glassware, knife, scissors, daisy, camellia

Chinese and Japanese are extremely afraid of using white paper to wrap gifts because white color often makes people think of mourning. Besides that, blue and black are Chinese taboos cause they use those colors in the funeral. Notice that when you give a gift to the Japanese of Chinese, you should give in 2 hands to show your respect to them,

We hope that those suggestions of CUPS.VN will help you find a significance and unique gift for your friends, clients, partner who are foreigners.

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