Fortune hunting: Wong Yee Yain, 24, picking out red pineapples at Pulau Tikus market to add an auspicious touch to the Chinese New Year celebration. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star.
GEORGE TOWN: For the Chinese community, pineapples play an important part in the Lunar New Year celebrations, as they call it “ong lai”, which sounds exactly like “fortune comes” in the Hokkien dialect.
And it is even better if the pineapples are red.
