Comments on: Lucky Chocolates

By: goldfries

goldfries — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:55:30 +0000

I know this post is old but I must say that the chocolates were upside-down on purpose.

It’s a gift, and upon opening it - you see many signs of “prosperity coming to you”, as zigzagza put it - “Arriving”. :)

By: zigzagza

zigzagza — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:18:07 +0000

The label on the box is right. Just the photo of the chocs is upside down.

Oh yeah Ast, you are right! “Upside-down” in Mandarin sounds like “arrive”, so people do paste the Fu upside-down to symbolise that prosperity arrives.

Which brings us to the point that these chocs were probably made for Chinese New Year, which was in February, which means they have been sitting on the shelf for a while now.

By: Astoria

Astoria — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:59:41 +0000

I wouldn’t say that it’s upside down, because in Asia, we see the character “fu” upside down as well. I think the label was stuck on correctly, if I’m not wrong it symbolises pouring/sprinkling of prosperity on people. haha. Can’t really describe it well.

By: Kath Lockett

Kath Lockett — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:02:22 +0000

Sorry Zizagza, but I photographed the box the right way both times. Maybe that’s why they were such a bargain, because the label was stuck upside down on the front of the box?

By: zigzagza

zigzagza — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:47:35 +0000

The word on the chocolates says “Fu”, which means prosperity. But you got the photo upside-down! :)