2018 Hong Kong Chinese New Year Shopping Mall Decorations

Everyone is getting ready to welcome the Chinese New Year 2018 – the Year of the Dog holidays. Hong Kong’s shopping malls, stores and restaurants getting ready with beautiful decorations. Many feature special themed exhibitions and auspicious symbols such as gold coins, flowers and ingots. Since this year is the Year of the Dog, it is no wonder that the majority of the 2018 Hong Kong Chinese New Year shopping mall decorations feature a dog-related theme. Hence, you can find popular dog cartoon characters as well as cute real-life dogs such as Shiba and Corgi dogs. Since Chinese New Year (CNY) is approaching and you might need or want to do some shopping, we took our time to compile a short list of the hottest, best and most attractive Year of the Dog shopping mall decorations and events in Hong Kong.

If you would like to enjoy other Chinese New Year celebrations, such as Lunar New Year Fair, Night Parade etc., check out latest Chinese New Year celebrations.

Chinese New Year Shopping Mall Decorations – Year of the Dog

The Chinese New Year Shopping Mall Decorations 2018 feature a wide variety. There is something for everyone to enjoy the Spring Festival and Lunar New Year. It seems that every shopping mall does not only take every effort to attract shoppers, fashion lovers and gourmet experts. It is like a race or battle who has the most creative, auspicious and luck-bringing decorations every year. No matter if you like a traditional Chinese New Year settings with peach blossoms, cute cartoon characters (such as Sanrio or Garfield), are a movie fan or a big LEGO enthusiast, there is something for everyone. So, head over to your favourite mall and enjoy the Chinese New Year Shopping Mall Decorations 2018. Make some good luck wishes for the New Year, take some luck-bringing pictures, post and share it with your beloved ones or fill up your Instagram or Facebook.

Overview of the 2018 Hong Kong Chinese New Year Shopping Mall Decorations

Shopping Malls on Kowloon

THE ONE (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Welcome the New Year of the Dog in one of Hong Kong’s hottest shopping districts. THE ONE shopping mall welcomes the Chinese New Year 2018 with a special Pochacco X Lunar New Year Parade exhibition. Pochacco is a cute dog cartoon character from the Japanese company Sanrio (who also own Hello Kitty). Hence, it is no wonder that THE ONE shopping mall decided to decorate their mall with the cute little white fluffy dog.

2018 Year of the Dog The One x Pochacco decoration

Pochacco decoration in The One

Lovely Pochacco

Langham Place (Mongkok)

Popular shopping mall Langham Place ushers in the Year of the Dog with a very special shopping mall decoration. Especially, if you love dogs and love the Japanese Shiba dogs you should not miss this cute and lovely decoration. The 4/F of the shopping mall is designed with auspicious symbols, colors and centered around the cute Shiba Inu dog. Altogether you can enjoy eight different Shiba Inu dogs and scenes. So, make sure to grab your camera or cellphone and get some lucky pictures.

Shiba decoration in Langham Place

Festival Walk (Kowloon Tong)

The 2018 Chinese New Year decoration of the Festival Walk shopping mall is very traditional. The mall is beautiful decorated as a traditional Chinese garden. Make your wishes under a luck bringing peach blossom tree garden, enjoy traditional elements of a Chinese garden, landscape and nature, Lion Dance show and drum performances. Elegant and auspicious elements such as a Lotus pond will bring you the best of luck in the Year of the Dog.

Chinese Garden in Festival Walk

Plaza Hollywood (Diamond Hill)

Get into the holiday spirit with a very special Chinese New Year – Year of the Dog event. Hong Kong Plaza Hollywood shopping mall has a Lunar New Year Garfield exhibition. Join Garfield, Odie, Nermal, Jon and Pooky in a special Chinese New Year exhibition. Take cute selfies with Garfield under a giant peach blossom tree, Make your best wishes and hope for good luck for the upcoming Year of the Dog in the wealthy Golden House. Enjoy Garfield and his friends dressed up in lion dance dresses, draw fortune sticks and wish everyone Kung Hei Fat Choi.

Garfield and Odie in Plaza Hollywood

Shopping Malls on Hong Kong Island

Fashion Walk (Causeway Bay)

Art lovers and fashionistas mark down the Fashion Walk shopping mall in Causeway Bay. There is a special treat for you at the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations. The graffiti king of Thailand, Rukkit Kuanhawate, was invited to design a special Chinese Lunar New Year pop-art exhibition called Kingston. You can enjoy Lifestyle King, Tokyo King, Running King, Chill Out King and Cuisine King. In addition, an array of cutting-edge and trendy fashion labels makes a debut at the Fashion Walk mall in Hong Kong. This holiday season Highlight of the Chinese New Year celebrations will be a special designed Hip Hop Lion Dance performance on February 11.

Graffiti in Fashion Walk

Shopping Malls in New Territories

New Town Plaza (Shatin)

In case you like LEGO or are a big fan of LEGO minifigures, there is one special Chinese New Year shopping mall decoration you should not miss. Head over to one of the biggest shopping mall in the New Territories. The New Town Plaza shopping mall celebrates the Lunar New Year 2018 with a special LEGO exhibition. You can expect 6 special designed LEGO scenes for the Lunar Chinese New Celebrations. In addition, there are around 10 life-size LEGO minifigures and 3 LEGO dogs at the New Town Plaza X LEGO New Year Amusement Park exhibition. However, for many LEGO fans the highlight probably is the 1.6 meter high and 2 meters long giant Lion Dance display. The LEGO Lion Dance is made of 150,000 LEGO bricks. Take some cute pictures with your favorite LEGO minifigure and make your New Year’s wishes.

2018 Year of the Dog New Town Plaza Lego decoration

Chinese Lion made of Lego

Tmtplaza (Tuen Mun)

The Tuen Mun Town Plaza (tmtplaza) shopping mall kicks off the 2018 Lunar New Year celebration with a special Kung Hei Fat Choi event. This shopping mall is decorated and themed with characters of the British classic children book “Where is Wally”. Moreover, you can enjoy interactive augmented reality (AR) games, join a special treasure hunt looking for auspicious lucky gold coins and enjoy a special coin exhibition including the earliest coins of Hong Kong.

2018 Year of the Dog Tmtplaza Wally decoration

Wally featured with traditional Chinese elements

Wally-style dogs

Find the Wally in the picture

Metro City Plaza (MCP)

In case you love the cartoon movies from DreamWorks Animation Studios, you might want to check out the special 2018 Chinese New Year Shopping Mall Decorations of the Metro City Plaza (MCP) shopping mall. Not only fans of popular movies Kung-Fu Panda, How to train your Dragon, Shrek and Madagascar will get excited. For the first time ever you can enjoy the main characters of these movies as lovely little babies. Are you ready to take some cute pictures and play interactive games with the popular characters Gloria, Alex and Marty, Po the Panda, Monkey, Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots, Toothless and Baby Nadder.

2018 Year of the Dog Dreamworks decoration