Travel Photos – Chinese New Year in Malaysia
Lunar calendar Chinese New Year which falls on the Valentine’s Day of 14th February this year 2010, is around the corner. It also marks the start of Tiger year in Lunar calendar. Many believe that the Year of Tiger will be to harsh for marriage so they rushed into marriage before the end of the year of Ox. Anyway, another 3 weeks there would be the new year I celebrate. Commercial areas like shopping mall and restaurants have started to put up decorations to welcome the festival and CNY promotion is running everywhere. If you want to see all these decorations mostly in red colour (Red indicates Prosperous among Chinese) and experience all the chinese new year celebration, come to Malaysia now or before 28th February 2010!
Here are some of the images around a shopping mall in town.
CNY stages are set up in all major shopping malls in Malaysia.
Chinese acrobatics are usually performed during this festive season… wooo, be careful sweet heart… 🙂
One way to celebrate Chinese New Year: To eat or treat friend and relatives with season-special cookies.
Some may buy these Ngar Ku (Arrowhead) or Chinese potatoes home, slice them into thin pieces, fry them into Ngarku crisps! You must try this!
But most importantly, we will stock cartons of beers or beverages for celebration till midnight for sure. 🙂
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Sometimes, we use yellow lanterns also since ‘yellow’ in chinese language sounds like ‘wealth’ and we all hope for more income this coming year!
However, don’t expect to see fire crackers during this festive season as they are already banned by our government as part of the preventive measure to control fire accidents and injuries. Happy Chinese New Year to whoever celebrates! – Travel Feeder
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Lovely golden lantern. Thanks for sharing the festivities. I don’t need to hop over to Mid Valley…:)
- January 25, 2010@Mei Teng,
- January 25, 2010Haha it may look like MidValley but it’s actually 1 U. So you still need to hop over to MV! 🙂
No wonder I’m seeing more frenzy around shops in Chinatown – it’s quite colorful and already very festive!
- January 26, 2010.-= Nomadic Pinoy´s last blog ..Giza, Egypt =-.
Thanks. There are more attractive if you could come and see it yourself. 🙂
- January 26, 2010I love all the pictures. Very vivid.
- January 29, 2010yes and i will celebrate the Chinese new year next year at my cousin’s house in Miri.thanks for your post and although i’m a Bruneian but i do love Kuching!
- December 16, 2011