Lala likes gifts that are tagged with Cheese, Creative, and Dreamy. The best starter gift for Lala before you've unlocked the ability to craft the Cheese Cloud at the All Candy Cloud Machine ...

Badtz-maru likes gifts that are tagged with Joke, Tropical, or Pizza. The best starter gift for Badtz-maru besides Pineapple (or any other tropical food and critter) is Pineapple Pizza.