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A common sight this time of the year at Giant Hypermart, at NTUC Fairprice, at Cold Storage, Fairprice Finest and at Sheng Siong...
It's the time of the year where rows and rows and rows of snacks and cookies liven up the stores, overwhelming us with a bright, distinct, celebration of reds, pinks and fuchsias all in preparation for Lunar New Year.
I was at NTUC a week before the first day, and there was an event taking place there (something to do with Milo) and Love 97.2FM DJs were somewhere in the huge supermarket. I don't know where precisely which section they were- too preoccupied I was with the sight of all these goodie jars greeting me by the entrance, placed right next to the boxes of chocolates and the steamboat and mookata pots.
It's fun that celebrations begin early for just about everyone.
It's fun that there's so much variety. Pretty labels stuck on the sides of jars let you decide how much butter you want in your pineapple tarts and pineapple pillows, and are probably a deciding factor as to how festive you want your goodie corner at home to look.
There's alot of comparisons when it comes to Lunar New Year.
There's just as much decisions one has to make. You've got to decide whether you'll buy from this supermarket or the other, or how many from this supermarket, how many from the other. You've got to decide what sort of goodies you want. You've got to decide how much you wish to spend (practically). You've got to decide whether to buy one jar first *just to try* first then buy more later.
There're just so many things to consider- and all this time you're standing along the shelves.
With the pea cookies, pineapple tarts, pineapple balls, love letters, sugee cookies, potato cookies, peanut cookies, peanut cookies shaped like curry puffs, peanut cakes shaped like pieces in a board game, cashew cookies, cranberry cookies, kuih bangkit, kueh balu, pineapple pillows all gazing down at you, willing you to bring them home.
Not to mention the bags and bags of individually wrapped sweets, packets of jell candies dusted with sugar, sugared and preserved fruits packed in hexagonal shaped trays, pistachio nuts, groundnuts, peanuts, peas, almonds, and the macadamia nuts.
All ready and happy and eager to make this once-a-year celebration an immensely joyful, happy, pleasing, blessed, fruitful, peaceful, lively one.
PS: We got the pineapple balls, the buttery, buttery ones. :) And fish skin a few days after.