Preparing their own ‘treasure pots’

Market-goers buying vegetables at the Batu Lanchang wet market in George Town. — Photos: ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

LUNAR New Year celebrations will be different this year, with many households seen buying canned items and mushrooms in their last-minute festive shopping.

At the Batu Lanchang market in Penang, dried food sellers took note of shoppers’ favourites like canned abalones and mushrooms to make their own poon choi (a smorgasbord of seafood and vegetables).