The Year of Rat (Chinese New Year)

The Chinese New Year day in 2008 is on 7th February. You can enjoy interest fairs, shows, scenic and shopping place around the city, if you are planning to visit Hong Kong during the Chinese New Year period.

During the last 5 days of the year (2nd - 6th February this year), there are several flower markets operating in the cities. The famous one is in Victoria Park (Tin Hau or Causeway Bay MTR). You can find several kind of seasonal flowers there in the wet market section. However, some funny and low price produce are on sold at the dry section there.

The flower market normally operate from the afteroon to 11pm, for the first 4 days. And will operation till 6am in the new year eve, so please can enjoy the countdown in the market at midnight. The price of the products in the market are reducing after midnight of the new year day, so you can enjoy having cheap things there.

At the new year day, there will be a parade showing around Tsimshatsui, to celebrate the most happy date for the Chinese society. On the second day of the new year, there will be fireworks show at the harbour. There two events are the major programme during the new year.

For shopping, most of the shopping mall are still operating during new year holidays, however, some traditional chinese style shops may be closed for 1 to 3 days. However, if you go to those major shopping mall, you can still enjoy there.

More information about Chinese New Year event in 2008:

http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/showtime/mega/cnyc/cny2008.jhtml

Around the World Musical - !Cityplaza

!Cityplaza, is a mall event during last Christmas. A performance group are having musical show at the shopping mall. This attract people to stay there. People can enjoy the show there while the otehr family member can shop around. This is a good way to spend a warm and happy winter holiday in Hong Kong.

This shopping mall organize different kind of performance, so you may see some when you visit Hong Kong someday.





Transport: Exit D2 or E1, Tai Koo MTR Station

Game, Comics and Cosplay

Online games, portable electronic games device, comics, animations are quite popular among the young generations in Hong Kong. Therefore, exhibitions, fairs and shows about such products are also popular in Hong Kong. Several events are held in the city among the year. For example Comic Festival and Game Show in the summer, and Animation and Comic Festival during Christmas.

These shows attract young people to join, other than the games and comics, they also like to collect the accessories of the games and comics. Moreover, during such events, cosplay show and competition are one of the major programme to attract people. Cosplayer are acting as a role play in the story of a comic, or game. They may dress up like the image of the comic and let people to take photos. For competitions, the cosplayer are trying their best to win the prize.

That's quite interesting and worth the see the young culture in Hong Kong.

Steamed Rice

"Steamed Rice" is one of the famous food provided in Chinese restaurant, you can order it during "Yum Cha", especially in morning session.

It is simple, just rice, steamed with some meat, for example, chicken legs, pork chops or beef meat. However, it is one of the very traditional chinese style breakfast in the old chinese society. Since most of the Chinese are farmers in the past, they need engery for their daily work, rice is a good source of energy, so they ate rice in the morning.

Have a good feel of steam rice, you can find it in most Chinese Restaurant, those place of "Yum Cha"