Into the New Year mood

Customers are pampered for choice at Tiong Hin Superstore.

Glutinous fish and fruit figurines for the Chinese New Year at Tiong Hin Superstore.

About a week to go before the Chinese New Year - many people could be seen shopping to prepare for the festivities. And if shopping is your game right now, the Tiong Hin Superstore at Jalan Muara would be a good place to be.

The Superstore took stock of new goods yesterday, filling the store to the brim with all that its customers may need for the New Year. Among the items that found their way to the store yesterday were fresh flowers - some coming all the way from Holland - like azelias, hyacinths, bamboo plants in different shapes and sizes, narcissus in various colours, as well as African violets.

For the sweet tooth, there are assorted cakes and biscuits to serve visitors, "acar" or spicy pickled vegetables, and sweets like the "soh toa" and the popular "chien char foo" all covered in colourful wrappers.

There are also the peanut candy "chui sing tang" which a very popular delicacy during Chinese New Year, and glutinous fish and fruit figurines brought in specially from Hong Kong and China.

The festive at Tiong Hin Superstore will be further enhanced by a series of lion dances by students from the Chung Hwa Middle School in the capital. Pupils from the Honey Tree School, meanwhile, will give a stage performance while a kung fu master from China will showcase his martial art skills.