{"id":2870,"date":"2015-02-11T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T09:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:41:40","slug":"hong-kong-lunar-new-year-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/hong-kong-lunar-new-year-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Lunar New Year Displays in Hong Kong 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LandmarkSheepBlog\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Happy year of the Goat! Or Sheep! Or Ram! Or whatever! The Chinese character (\u7f8a) for the holiday’s Zodiac symbol can mean any one of them. At Little Adventures in Hong Kong we have no problem with that–we’re happy to have all our favorite Fuzzy Ruminant Animals around in Hong Kong for this Lunar New Year 2015.<\/p>\n

Every year Hong Kong\u2019s stores, malls and shops bring on the major bling for Lunar New Year.\u00a0 We set out on mission to find the good, bad and the fugly of this year\u2019s Ram-bunctious displays.<\/p>\n

Confession: We love the ramp up to Lunar New Year holiday even more than holiday themselves. It’s the time in HK when all the malls and stores go whole hog (um, wait wasn\u2019t that two lunar new years ago?) and wrap their customers in the full-on holiday sensory-consumer decorative experience. This year\u2019s Lunar decorations tick all the boxes you expect for a proper and propitious Hong Kong celebration: huge, ambitious, over the top, major cuteness attack and fun for the whole family. Get your selfie sticks ready, we’re off to review the best Lunar New Year displays in Hong Kong<\/p>\n

The Landmark<\/strong> (photo above) (Central, Hong Kong)<\/p>\n

This year the Chinese Zodiac animal is somewhat open to interpretation, since the Chinese character [ yeung] can be interpreted as ram, goat or sheep. Some of the store displays tiptoe around that fuzzy issue by featuring all three. No such sheepishness from the brilliant designers at Landmark! They\u2019ve concocted a wooly tableaux that not only celebrates the season colorfully, but manages to skate the thin line between cutesy and tasteful. A mountain of multicolored lambs nestle around a giant cherry tree, where round red balls of yarn cleverly stand in for fuzzy spring blossoms. Above, puffy lambswool clouds suspended from the mall\u2019s atrium ceiling slowly rise and fall and rise. Clever and classy, the display\u2019s designers show they have the, uh, chops of the best New York City Christmas window designers.<\/p>\n

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\"PacificPlaceBlog\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pacific Place<\/strong> (Admiralty, Hong Kong)<\/p>\n

PP\u2019s designers go with the goat this year\u2014but that\u2019s the only clear message in this ambitious but ultimately disappointing display. I love the simplicity of hanging Chinese scrolls in the atriums\u2014Pacific Place always has pretty good taste in their seasonal decorations\u2014but at ground level there\u2019s a chaos of Hello Kitty-pink animals and pagodas spreading like a kawaii attack across the mall. Placards, contests and Lunar New Year riddles connected to QR codes that need to be scanned to win prizes\u2014my head was spinning with confusion, and that was BEFORE I got trapped in the wavy-mirror Hall of Goat Maze.<\/p>\n

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Japan Home Centre<\/strong> (Wellington Street and other locations)<\/p>\n

You gotta hand it to \u201cYat Bun Seng\u201d, Hong Kong\u2019s favorite cheap\u00a0 housewares chain: they know their market and they always know what time of year it is. Come December, they\u2019ve got the space heaters and the electric hot pots out front; come January\/February, it\u2019s the mops and brooms surrounded by festive lai see and cardboard gold ingots. Because all Hong Kong knows that you gotta clean your house up properly at New Years before you can \u201cclean up\u201d with a fresh slate in the Goat\/Sheep\/Cloven Foot Animal Year. JHC’s modest\u2014even minimalist\u2014approach to the Lunar New Year holiday display nevertheless resonates in the soul of every Hong Konger.<\/p>\n

\"JapanHomeCenterBlog\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Funeral Paper Shops<\/strong> on Queen’s Road West<\/p>\n

You can count on this strip of \u201cDeath Paper Goods\u201d shops to deliver a major Lunar New Year visual statement. Why? Because at this festive time of year, nobody wants to have anything to do with these shops’ unlucky and unfortunate wares (paper offerings for the ancestors). So the idea here is to hide all the paper IPads, Hell Money and paper Gucci loafers behind a wondrous wall of red and gold firecrackers and big-eyed cartoon lambs.\u00a0 By energetically working to make their customers forget what kind of business they REALLY do, the Funeral Paper Shops succeed in keeping old school \u201cFaat Choi\u201d spirit alive. There is so much bling on this block you need to bring sunglasses.<\/p>\n

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Winner:<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIE! Landmark and Japan Home Centre. Landmark\u2019s display is smart, clever and sophisticated, while JHC is pragmatic and no-nonsense get the job done. Taken together, the essence of what we love about Hong Kong\u2014at Lunar New Year, and all year round!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"LandmarkSheepBlog\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy year of the Goat! Or Sheep! Or Ram! Or whatever! The Chinese character (\u7f8a) for the holiday’s Zodiac symbol can mean any one of them. At Little Adventures in Hong Kong we have no problem with that–we’re happy to have all our favorite Fuzzy Ruminant Animals around in Hong Kong for this Lunar New Year 2015.<\/p>\n

Every year Hong Kong\u2019s stores, malls and shops bring on the major bling for Lunar New Year. We set out on mission to find the good, bad and the fugly of this year\u2019s Ram-bunctious displays.<\/p>\n

Happy year of the Goat! Or Sheep! Or Ram! Or whatever! The Chinese character (\u7f8a) for the holiday’s Zodiac symbol can mean any one of them. We have no problem with that–we’re happy to have all our favorite Fuzzy Ruminant Animals around in Hong Kong for this Lunar New Year 2015.<\/p>\n

Every year Hong Kong\u2019s stores, malls and shops bring on the major bling for Lunar New Year. We set out on mission to find the good, bad and the fugly of this year\u2019s Ram-bunctious displays.<\/p>\n

Confession: We love the ramp up to Lunar New Year holiday even more than holiday themselves. It’s the time in HK when all the malls and stores go whole hog (um, wait wasn\u2019t that two lunar new years ago?) and wrap their customers in the full-on holiday sensory-consumer decorative experience. This year\u2019s Lunar decorations tick all the boxes you expect for a proper and propitious Hong Kong celebration: huge, ambitious, over the top, major cuteness attack and fun for the whole family. Get your selfie sticks ready, we’re off to review the best Lunar New Year displays in Hong Kong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleadventuresinhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}