For the Chinese New Year, it is common for the parents to make tiger theme costume for their children. We have incorporated the tiger pattern with the biker’s head wrap which make it more fashionable for teenager and adults alike.
Tiger is admired for its strength and bravery, it is believe that not only will the tiger protect the children but they will also grow up to be as strong as the tiger.
See our our tiger items.
Original tiger hats are also available.
We will like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy Chinese New Year!
Kung Kei Fat Choy!
The shop will be closed during the festival and reopen again on 4th February (Tue) Chinese New Year day 5.
We have now associate the term white elephant to large and redundant project that is exhausting to maintain, e.g. the Olympic bird nest stadium or even Downton Abbey.
The white elephant first gained its sacred reputation from the appearance in the dream of Queen Maya (mother of Buddha). In the dream, Queen Maya was carried by our spirits to a lake in the Himalayas where she was bathed and pampered. Then came a white elephant holding a white lotus flower and circled around her 3 times. It is believed that the buddha took the form of a white elephant to be reborn on earth.
This sacred animal became a symbol of justice and power for the kings of the Southeast Asia and that it offers peace and prosperity. Temples, palaces were build for his home; musicians, cooks for its entertainments, etc. The white elephant is a rare, in today’s terms, it is albino (a genetic disorder which lacks pigments in the skin). In the old days, as they are rare, the king would use them as the highest reward. This would be a blessing if one has the means to sustain the up keeping of the sacred elephant but otherwise a curse and this is where the meaning of the modern idiom comes from.
This is a ceramic paper weight made in the shape of a moon cake.
Today is the 15th of lunar August, the middle of autumn when the moon is at its fullest. Since the Zhou dynasty people has started to worship and celebrate the moon on this night. Food, such as moon cake, water melon, apple, dates, plums and grapes will be offer to the moon on an alter together with candles. Today, for most people the moon festival is about the appreciation of the moon, a time for family reunion and of course a feast.
As people becomes more health conscious in recent years, the once a year of loaded sugar and cholesterol is too much for some, the sales of moon cake has started to decline. However, they have found another target customer – doggy mooncake, mooncake made especially for the man’s best friend. Looks like they have found spotted the right target!