Hong Kong’s annual Lunar New Year truthful returns for the primary time because the Chinese border reopening. Flower markets and stalls are arrange everywhere in the metropolis within the week main as much as the Chinese New Year, the place residents come to purchase crops — usually orchids, peach blossoms and mandarins — to embellish their houses and places of work earlier than ushering within the yr of the rabbit. Food stalls and dried items are absent from this yr’s festivals, with solely gross sales of flowers and crops permitted. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
Hong Kongers flock to annual flower fair ahead of Lunar New Year
