We just celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival here in Hong Kong, a wonderful harvest festival with lots of beautiful lantern installations all around the city. In Victoria Park there is a Lantern Wonderland every year which is really huge and impressive. But we also spotted beautiful lanterns at the harbour front of Tsim Sha Tsui. The theme of the little exhibition was ‘Home Sweet home’ and depicted typical situations of family life in Hong Kong like having a BBQ, eating Dim Sum, reading out to the children etc.
The lantern exhibition at Victoria Park revolved around the topic of food in Hong Kong. There were lots of funny lanterns depicting the favourite snacks and dishes of Hong Kongers, but also other themes could be found like a little animal love zoo or the ‘Rising Moon’, which was the centerpiece of this year’s exhibition. It was 10 meters high and made from 7,000 recycled plastic bottles lit with LED lights
Lanterns at Victoria Harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui showing rubber ducks and people having a bath
A family having a typical Chinese BBQ
A super big lantern wishing good fortune at the Lantern Wonderland in Victoria Park
Beautiful lanterns everywhere
Lanterns depicting fish balls – a super popular street food snack in Hong Kong
A popular snack: Egg waffles in a paper bag
Lots of lantern people gathered around a Chinese Hot Pot
The white lanterns are the famous buns of the Cheung Chau Bun Festival
Polar Bear Lanterns
A funny lion and elephant
Capricorn lanterns
A lantern girl holding a lantern for the Mid-Autumn festival
kawaii popcorn bear lantern
the Rising Moon which is made from recycled plastic bottles
The exhibition area is huge, there are pretty lights and lanterns everywhere
3 comments
kawaii, funny, cute, beautiful….
wow!! =)
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