Every now and then you see cute Hello Kitty food in the supermarkets of Hong Kong if there are special promotions or holidays. Then you’ll find Hello Kitty sweets, cookies or even whole food series like pasta or sauces. But now we discovered the little cat on an item that couldn’t be more typical for Hong Kong: Cup Noodles. Instant Noodles are sooo common and popular in Asia, every supermarket has large shelves with lots of different flavours and brands, every convenience store holds at least a small selection of instant noodles. And now we found cute Hello Kitty Noodles with soy sauce flavour. Do you think the noodles will be shaped like Hello Kitty? If we get some we’ll let you know.

what a nice sight in the instant noodle shelf of the supermarket

cute Hello Kitty instant noodles

this one has soy sauce flavour

The Chocolate Trail 2012 is open. Doesn’t this sound like heaven on earth? At least for chocoholics. Hong Kong’s mall Harbour City started a special chocolate promotion for the third year in a row. Until February 19th everything will revolve around that tender brown sweet. Throughout the whole mall you find super big installations of macaroons and chocolate that look extremely tasty. Unfortunately they are not edible, otherwise probably many people would have taken a bite of that huge macaroon tree already, which is several meters high. Apart from the installation at the mall there is a photo exhibition and live “sweetheart” demonstrations with chocolatiers from the world’s biggest chocolate manufacturers. And of course chocolate to buy. Sounds good, huh?

Chocolate is currently a big topic at our shop too, as we just recently added many products of the new Rilakkuma Chocolate and Coffee Collection. If you prefer pastry, we also have a whole lot of stuff with macaroons. One way or the other, it stays sweet.

Official poster of the Chocolate Trail Promotion at Harbour City

Tasty and huge macaroon tree

there are even funny chocolate puzzle stickers on the floor

this huge macaroon looks a bit like a burger

tasty pink macaroon XXL

Yes, we have been posting quite a bit about Chinese New Year in Hong Kong already. But there is just so much to see that we can’t stop. Until now we mainly focused on showing you stuff related to cute characters that we love so much. But of course there is a lot more to this super important Chinese holiday. So we thought you might be interested in getting some impressions of what everyday things look like at the moment. Because in every place you go and every store you enter you will find some Chinese New Year decoration or special products to buy. So take a look at some more general pictures about Chinese New Year.

a stationery shop with CNY decoration in Tsim Sha Tsui at nighttime

everywhere you look it is red, red, red

decorations with dragons are really big, it is the year of the dragon after all

Chinese New Year lights covering whole buildings at the New Mandarin Plaza

CNY decoration in a Wellcome supermarket

big tables full of candy

most stores now have a whole section with Chinese New Year stuff

Now is the time to buy a mandarine tree - it stands for good luck

the entrance of a regular appartment building with decoration

Chinese New Year is almost there and even if you don’t have a clue about it, you can definitely tell that it’s a big thing. At least if you live in Hong Kong, because by now - one week before the celebrations – the whole city has turned into a place of red and gold decorations. And as we have entered the crunch-time of preparing for the festivities, we found a lot of stuff we want to share with you. Because a lot of our favourite characters appear on Chinese New Year decorations.

Especially on Fai Chuns – paper decorations with good wishes that you can hang in your home – you can find cute characters like Hello Kitty, Rilakkuma, My Melody, Mickey or Minnie Mouse. Often the characters are combined with other symbols important for Chinese New Year such as mandarines, ingots (gold nuggets) or dragons (2012 is the year of the dragon), which mean good luck or prosperity. Fire cracker decorations (of course no real firecrackers) are also really popular as a Chinese New Year decoration. And the red envelopes or red packets must not be missing either. Those little paper envelopes are passed out during the celebrations filled with money. Usually married couples give them to unmarried juniors, adults give them to children too.

cute Hello Kitty Fai Chun in rectangular shape

Rilakkuma and friends also wish good luck for Chinese New Year

Disney Fai Chun with Mickey Mouse holding a typical ingot gold nugget

Hello Kitty Fai Chun on a Dragon

more Rilakkuma, Hello Kitty and My Melody Fai Chuns

cute plush toy Rilakkuma decoration with mandarines for prosperity

Hello Kitty & My Melody fire cracker decoration - no real ones of course

very important for Chinese New Year - red envelopes

a mandarine tree made from paper, including cute mickey mouse heads

Groupbuying websites are really in popular in Hong Kong at the moment. There are a lot of different sites that offer special deals where you can save a lot of money for certain products or services, but only if enough people buy it. You really find a lot of offers from restaurants and for beauty products or spas, but we also saw quite a few ones for cute items with our favourite characters.

One of the most interesting things was a deal on the platform Groupon, offering traditional Chinese Turnip Pudding and Red Bean CNY Pudding from Maxim’s cakes in Hello Kitty Style. Those two dishes are a specialty for Chinese New Year, which is starting at the end of January. On other groupbuying platforms we found cute Hello Kitty headphones plugy jacks or even the cute Little Red Riding Hood shopping bag.

Traditional Chinese Food with Hello Kitty heads

Cute Hello Kitty plugy jacks for earphones on beecrazy.hk

also products from Otogicco can be found on groupbuying platforms

You can tell that Chinese New Year is approaching. Almost all stationery shops in Hong Kong are covered in red, as they sell thousands of cards and decoration material for that holiday at the end of January. In every supermarket you find tons of special candy to buy as presents. The 7-Eleven convenient stores still have their Tokidoki x Hello Kitty promotion going that we already posted on the blog. But a couple of days ago they also adapted their decoration to the celebration ahead. So now all 7-Elevens have a special Chinese New Year Hello Kitty design. The center of the decoration is the cute Hello Kitty charm on the dragon of the Tokidoki series, as the year of the dragon is coming.

Chinese New Year Hello Kitty banner in a 7Eleven

this store also added festoons to the decoration

stickers with good luck wishes in Chinese

7Eleven Banner with Tokidoki Hello Kitty designs

Big Rilakkuma bears are looking at you when you pass stores of the fashion label b+ab in Hong Kong at the moment. The label just released a Rilakkuma collection and is currently promoting it in all shops. So there are kawaii Rilakkuma bears on all of their shop windows that look super cute of course. As do the clothes of the collection. You can get cute shirts and hoodies with our cute friend on it. Escpecially the hoodies with the bear ears on the hood rock. Can it be more Rilakkuma?

shop window of a b+ab store in Hong Kong

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a glance at the Rilakkuma collection

the Rilakkuma shelf attracts attention

the official poster of the Rilakkuma collection

Hong Kong is packed with cute stuff from Rilakkuma, Sentimental Circus, Kutusita Nyanko, Hello Kitty, Kuromi and many more characters we love. You can get eveything with your favourite character on it. Yes, even food. Today we show you some very sweets cakes that we discovered during the last days. Aren’t they just adorable?

There are basically two types of character cakes: The ones that are really shaped like the figures such as the Angry Birds cakes you can currently get at Hong Kong’s Maxim’s cakes and the ones that use the characters as embellishments like the Hello Kitty cake we also saw at Maxim’s or the Rilakkuma series of Saint Honore Cake Shop. We hope they taste as good as they look, but they already get 10 points for the cute appearance. Which cake do you like best?

cake with cute Hello Kitty embellishments

Angry Birds cakes at Hong Kong's Maxim's Cakes

Angry Birds cake with many details

Rilakkuma cake at Saint Honore Cake Shop

another cake of that series from the Saint Honore Cake Shop website

One of our team members discovered a whole Hello Kitty collection while shopping in Hong Kong’s mall Langham Place the other day. The label Stayreal launched the Hello Kitty x STAYREAL which has quite a few ‘different’ designs. You don’t see Hello Kitty too often as a robot with glowing eyes or dressed in leather on a motorbike. What’s your opinion? Do you like it?

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty collection at Stay Real stores in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is full of Hello Kitty again – even more than usual. Currently there is a big Tokidoki x Hello Kitty promotion going on at all the 7-Eleven shops in Hong Kong. Which means that you basically see Hello Kitty everywhere because there are just so many 7-Elevens over here. There are 22 different Hello Kitty charms, designed in collaboration with Italian lifestyle brand Tokidoki. To get one of those funny toys you have to collect stamps. For every purchase worth 20 HKD you get a stamp. Once you’ve collected 15 stamps you get a charm for free (or just add 20 HKD when you have 5 stamps and get one too). Aren’t the designs really cute? We like the Donut Kitty and Apple Kitty really a lot. But they are all adorable, no doubt about that. There even is a whole Hello Kitty spot about the collection.

And of course there is more Hello Kitty going on in 7-Eleven. We found those funny Hello Kitty toys and yummy looking cookies in the shelves too.

Tokidoki x Hello Kitty official poster

all the different Hello Kitty charms in the 7-Eleven stores

unfortunately they are presented in a vitrine, so no touching

on the 7-Eleven homepage you can look at all the characters

cute Hello Kitty toys in one of the 7-Eleven shelves

yummy looking Hello Kitty cookies @ 7-Eleven