City ready for bunny blessings
At the Lunar New Year Fair in Victoria Park, a shopper buys seasonal plants that symbolise health and longevity.
Shoppers buy festive treats for relatives and friends during Lunar New Year gatherings.
People flock to hawker stalls on Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok to pick up festive items including rabbit-themed decorations and gifts.
A social enterprise and its chef Mark Mok will prepare 500 mini ”poon choi” with colleagues and volunteers on the second day of the Lunar New Year and give them out to the underprivileged.
As the Year of the Rabbit approaches, people are busy shopping for festive treats and trimmings, with everyone full of energy and hope for a bright year ahead.
In Mong Kok, many shoppers flock to hawker stalls on Fa Yuen Street to pick up festive items including rabbit-themed decorations and gifts.
At the Lunar New Year Fair in Victoria Park, shoppers are willing to spend generously on the wide array of auspicious flowers and blooms.
“Poon choi”, a traditional dish of assorted meats and seafood, has become popular cuisine over the Lunar New Year. A social enterprise will produce 500 mini “poon choi”, which will be distributed to the underprivileged on January 23, the second day of the Lunar New Year, as a way to share the festive joy to those less fortunate.
The news.gov.hk team wishes all our readers good health and prosperity in the Year of the Rabbit.