Red ‘ong lai’ makes auspicious comeback in Chinese New Year Red ‘ong lai’ makes auspicious comeback in Chinese New Year
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2023
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.