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Chinatown Culture

Chinatown Culture. Ushering in the Spring season, a Chinese New Year. People, with eager faces, crowding around the Zodiac boards to find out what the masters predicted for the year of the tiger.

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Chinatown Culture

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  1. Chinatown Culture Ushering in the Spring season, a Chinese New Year

  2. People, with eager faces, crowding around the Zodiac boards to find out what the masters predicted for the year of the tiger.

  3. Chinatown filled with stalls selling New Year goodies, red lanterns and banners to celebrate the Chinese New Year mood.

  4. A little town filled with many people. It’s the season to spend!

  5. A familiar scene every Chinese New Year: Customers shopping for waxed and preserved meat.

  6. A butcher slicing a piece of waxed meat for a customer by the road side.

  7. Nuts is always a must for long chats at relatives and friends’ places! - A lady weighing some nuts out of the variety for a customer’s purchase.

  8. An elderly man playing the erhuwhile wishing the public “xingniankuai le!” while the people shop for goodies.

  9. People trying out samples or cookies and nuts.

  10. Pomelo a must during the Chinese New Year Season.

  11. A row of colourfullanterns hanging from the trellises complements the surrounding ambience.

  12. A fusion of cultures: Turkish Ice Cream in the middle of Chinatown, a cool down for the shoppers of Chinatown!

  13. A Chinese lady paints - Intricate handwork needed to paint the internal side of the glass bottle! Art that requires skilled handwork – an Art created by the Chinese people.

  14. An old couple selling niangao–a traditional Chinese food that is always sold during this season.

  15. Chinese decorations – always of the colours red and gold! Red to scare off the monster in Chinese traditional stories, Gold for a prosperous year ahead! Happy Chinese New Year!

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