In the run-up to this year's Chinese New Year, the Kampong Baru wet market here in Bukit Mertajam was already full of people at six, six-thirty in the morning. I went there this morning to buy fruits for Chinese New Year Eve worship and couldn't find an empty parking space for quite a while. Then, when I could finally slot the car into one, I found the stalls packed with shoppers.
I'm told that shoppers are buying less foodstuff this year because of the biting inflation but even when they buy less, the number of people is still the same as in previous years. The spirit of celebration remains undiminished. Tomorrow is going to be another mad house there....
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