Chinese New Year – Decoration, Preparation and snacks

Jan 15th, 2009

by han.

Gong Xi Fa Cai! “Red Bull” (Chinese ‘Ox’ year)is coming.  We can hear CNY’s song a long the streets, we can see lanterns are hung every where, and we also see all types of cakes, cookies, snacks are sold every where.

Although, this year the CNY atmosphere is quite slow to heat up, but we still can feel that CNY is around.  I believed Chinese families are now busy preparing their house(cleaning, vacuum, decorating, buying new furniture, windows curtain).  Some of them may now busy making cookies, cakes and snacks. 

I snapped some pictures from the little town I stayed to show you, how Malaysians Chinese are celebrating Chinese New Year.

Lantern decoration

Street lantern decoration

Temple lantern decoration

Temple lantern decoration

House lantern decoration

Peanuts cookies

Unknown cookies

Pineapples tart

Many many cookies

Glutinous rice cake

Glutinous rice cake

Glutinous rice cake is one of traditional CNY snacks/foods.  Normally, they used it for praying and hand gift for relatives.

I wish all of you have a Happy and Prosperous New Year

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7 Comments

1. Jayce says:

   January 16, 2009 at 2:18 pm

   Happy Chinese New Year lo. Can’t wait to celebrate and take Ang Pao.

   By the way, why not put your blog link – MelakaBest.com as the watermark on the photo. It can attract visitors come to your blog if other use it on other websites. Just my 2 cents.
2. han says:

   January 16, 2009 at 2:35 pm

   Thanks for you advice, I’ll start doing it on next post..
3. cherie says:

   September 20, 2009 at 11:56 pm

   Hi,

   Can you recommend places to eat for chinese new year eve reunion dinner 2010 ?

   Thank you.
4. cherie says:

   September 20, 2009 at 11:57 pm

   Hi,

   Can you recommend chinese new year eve reunion dinner 2010 ?

   Thank you.
5. han says:

   September 23, 2009 at 12:02 pm

   cherie # First, where you from ? Second, how many (pax) people for that reunion ?
6. han says:

   September 23, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   cherie # only simple reunion and dinner. You can try Jonker Walk Geographer, Melaka Raya Baba Nyoya restaurant. And some others regular restaurants you can found in Melaka.
7. Lantern and Light Decoration Exhibition at Melaka river bank – MelakaBest.com says:

   October 19, 2010 at 2:23 pm

   [...] pm, then is too dark and when you use your camera flash light to take photos, it will spoil the beautiful lantern and light decoration [...]