As the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday is nearing, hundreds of decorative items at a variety of eye-catching designs and colours are on sale at specialised shops along such downtown streets in Da Nang as Hung Vuong, Dien Bien Phu and Ly Thai To. Most of them are buffalo-shaped items because 2021 is the Year of the Buffalo.

Nguyen Thi Mai, the owner of the Mai shop located at 8 Dien Bien Phu Street, said on sale at her shop are a wide range of indoor and outdoor decorations. This year’s decorative products are in beautiful and sophisticated designs. Specifically-mentioned are buffalo-shaped stickers, buffalo-shaped lucky money envelopes, handcrafted flowers, and other decorative items. Mai remarked that there are no fluctuations of the prices of decorative products when compared to last year.

In addition to aforementioned decorative items, such cute and eye-catching products as lanterns, plastic ‘banh chung’ (square sticky rice cakes) and 'banh tet' (cylindrical glutinous rice cakes) are available at the Phuong Boostore on Ly Thai To Street.

Accordingly, the prices of lanterns measuring 40-100 cm in diameter are ranging between 70,000VND and 130,000 VND per item, whilst artificial ‘banh chung’ and ‘banh tet’ cakes are being sold at the prices of 30,000 VND - 50,000 VND per item.

In addition, customers can buy artificial flowers for decorating their houses to celebrate this special occasion.

The joyful trading atmosphere is seen at shops selling Tet decorations on downtown Hung Vuong Street

On sale at such shops are a wide range of eye-catching and sophisticated Tet decorations.

Artificial flowers, lanterns and lucky money envelopes are among the best sellers

Artificial ‘banh chung’ and ‘banh tet’ cakes are being sold at the prices of 30,000 VND - 50,000 VND per item.

Many customers prefer to choose pre-decorated artificial flower pots

It is expected that there will be a sharp increase in the shopping demand for Tet decorations in the next days

 By VAN HOANG, MAI QUE - Translated by M.D