Transcript
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- 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 filled with stalls selling New Year goodies, red lanterns and banners to celebrate the Chinese New Year mood.
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- A little town filled with many people. Its the season to spend!
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- A familiar scene every Chinese New Year: Customers shopping for waxed and preserved meat.
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- A butcher slicing a piece of waxed meat for a customer by the road side.
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- Nuts is always a must for long chats at relatives and friends places! - A lady weighing some nuts out of the variety for a customers purchase.
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- An elderly man playing the er hu while wishing the public xing nian kuai le! while the people shop for goodies.
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- People trying out samples or cookies and nuts.
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- Pomelo a must during the Chinese New Year Season.
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- A row of colourful lanterns hanging from the trellises complements the surrounding ambience.
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- A fusion of cultures: Turkish Ice Cream in the middle of Chinatown, a cool down for the shoppers of Chinatown!
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- 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.
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- An old couple selling nian gao a traditional Chinese food that is always sold during this season.
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- 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!