The ramp up for the next CNY begins...

Stores have already begun stocking gifts up for Chinese New Year.  Below are some ads from the supermarket as well as some random holiday decorations.  Sorry for the picture orientations below, blogspot was working against me on some of these...

 Instant coffee gift set.  Hmm, this is a new concept for me.

Mmm, carp.  I know goldfish are lucky, but really????

Speechless.

Now that's more like it - dragon booze!

It's the year of the dragon (which happens to be my year).  Dragons are also lucky anyway, so there are going to be a lot of dragons around China this CNY.

AAAAAAHHHHHH!  What is that?  The truly horrifying part of this is that the mannequin to the left is totally headless...