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

We wish all of you a very Happy Chinese New Year. We hope you’ll have a lot of luck, happiness and good health in the year of the dragon. And of course it is hopefully filled with cuteness. Therefore Hello Kitty sends you greetings too. We have to admit that this greeting card is already a bit older and actually celebrates the year of the rat which was a couple of years ago. But it is just so cute!

Today the big celebrations start in Hong Kong. Until Wednesday there will be lots of stuff going on like parades and fireworks. PLEASE DON’T FORGET: We can’t ship any orders between January 23rd and January 25th, as those days are public holidays in Hong Kong for Chinese New Year and all post offices are closed. We will start shipping again on Thursday, January 26th.

Happy Chinese New Year with Hello Kitty

What? You haven’t heard of that day before? Neither have we. Still the Worldday of the Snowman exists since 2010 and is kind of funny. It’s on January 18th as the ‘8′ resembles the shape of a snowman and the ‘1′ looks like the broom or stick he holds in his hand. Plus meteorologically it’s still winter – at least in many countries of the world. What are you supposed to do on that day? That depends on you, as it’s just a general day of action, where you can do anything related to the snowman. Like building a snowman for example.

…..Well, we would love to, but there was not quite enough snow in Hong Kong for that. But we still have some funny snowman items in our shop! And the best: They’re all on sale. Because let’s be honest, winter is over. Still we wish everybody a very happy snowman day and hope you use it wisely if you have access to snow .

cute small snowman with snow wooden stamp

funny Christmas gel stamps snowman reindeer

black snowman Scotch Tape christmas snowflakes

green Christmas fabric Santa Claus animals snowflakes

cute small snowman wooden stamp Christmas

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

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

Did you get some nice cards for this last Christmas? We certainly did, many of our business partners and suppliers sent us nice wishes for Christmas and New Year’s. It is so nice to get cute and pretty mail, we enjoy it a lot. The cards are so different, but all really nice, so we thought we share them with you. Which one do you like best? The first three cards come from Japan, the last two designs from Hong Kong.

Cute Christmas Card with all San-X characters wishing good luck

very nice and fine card from Japan with Japans Fuji mountain

bright and festive card from Japan

this one is obvious: Seasons Greetings from Hong Kong

a very artful card from Hong Kong wishing peace, hope & prosperity

We hope you all had a fantastic New Year’s Eve and look forward to a great 2012. We certainly do. Thanks for all your support during the last year, it’s amazing what has happened. Keep up letting us know what you think about our products, it’s wonderful to see how you enjoy them. We are looking forward to another year with cute things, new products and adorable characters. January 2nd is still a public holiday in Hong Kong, but from January 3rd we will be back in the office to send all your orders to you.

Happy New Year everybody.

Happy New Year with this cute wallpaper by San-X

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