Bunny business

SW combs the streets for hares

By Tatat Bunnag

This golden resin rabbit is believed to bring good luck for the coming year. They sell for 900 baht.

Say goodbye to the Year of Tiger and welcome the year of the Golden Rabbit. The Rabbit is the fourth sign in the cycle of the Chinese zodiac, and it's a year that many are looking forward too, since the Rabbit is considered a lucky sign. It's also a symbol of mercy, peace, and appreciation of love and beauty.

In the days leading up to Chinese New Year, people everywhere will be busy buying rabbit-related gifts for their families and friends.

Student Weekly recently took a stroll around Bangkok's Chinatown in search of cool bunny gift ideas to help usher in the Year of the Rabbit.

Clockwise from top left: These lucky red ang pao envelopes are really on the money for only 20 baht per pack., Cute rabbit tissues can be found for 20 baht a pack., Grab yourself a sweet rabbit candy jar for only 180 baht., Having stomach problems? Some of this Flying Rabbit stomach medicine should do the trick at just 37 baht a bottle.

Clockwise from top left: These cute rabbit T-shirts sell for 170 baht., Celebrations and New Year parties always need decorations, so grab one of these red and gold rabbit mobiles for only 60 baht., Bugs Bunny makes an appearance on these cool red T-shirts, which sell for 100 baht each.

Clockwise from top left: Keep the sun off with this bright rabbit cap, selling for 300 baht., Rabbit coffee mugs are available for only 250 baht., Many girls wouldn't be able to resist this cute cuddly rabbit doll for 520 baht.

 

Vocabulary

  • hare (n): an animal like a large rabbit

    mercy (n): a kind or forgiving attitude towards somebody that you have the power to harm or punish

    stroll (v): to walk somewhere in a slow relaxed way

    usher in (phrasal v): to be the beginning of something new or to make something new begin

    mobile (n): a decoration that is hung from the ceiling and that has small objects hanging from it that move when the air around them moves

  • Idiom
    comb the streets:     to walk around many streets looking carefully for something
    on the money: correct, accurate