Valentine's Day Market is Bustling

Bustling gift market

Along Cach Mang Thang 8 Street, Tay Ninh City, there are dozens of places selling handmade flowers and gift products for Valentine's Day, February 14. Handicrafts such as paper flowers, velvet flowers, wax flowers, wax flowers, wool flowers... with a variety of colorful colors make the atmosphere of this year's Valentine's season more bustling and sweet.

A handmade flower stall on Cach Mang Thang 8 Street, Tay Ninh City.

Along with the development of social networks and youth trends, gift items this year are considered to have quite high competition. Besides popular items, this market also has unique and creative products from young people such as flower bouquets made of candy, flower bouquets of vegetables and fruits, flower bouquets made of money, etc., making the gift market more bustling.

A unique bouquet of dew-dried rice paper flowers from a flower shop in Ward 4, Tay Ninh city (internet source).

Ms. Le Thi Diem Nghi, residing in Binh Minh commune, Tay Ninh city, owner of a crochet flower stall on Cach Mang Thang 8 street, Tay Ninh city shared that to prepare items for this year's Valentine's season, she spent a whole month preparing crocheted products such as crocheted flower bouquets, crocheted flower baskets, key chains, flower pots... The prices of handmade flowers are diverse, ranging from a few dozen to a few million per product, depending on quantity and quality.

“This is a craft that requires skill and effort, so the number of products made is also less than other types of items. I make about 2 bundles of wool flowers every day. Little by little, I now have nearly 100 bundles of flowers and keychain products. To meet the needs of young people, I often crochet into cartoon and anime characters that are familiar to young people. I have been selling for 3 days now, and many customers have come to buy. They mainly buy keychains and teddy bears made of wool. As for bouquets or flower baskets, I think they will be more popular closer to and on February 14,” said Ms. Nghi.

Ms. Diem Nghi takes care of her wool flower stall.

Besides handmade flowers, the fresh flower market is also gradually heating up with prices increasing 3 times compared to normal days. In particular, the price of roses, the flower symbolizing love, increased by nearly 20,000 VND/flower, the retail price at fresh flower shops. However, the purchasing power of fresh flowers as gifts did not decrease, continuing to increase from the end of February 13 to the beginning of February 14.

Ms. Tran Song Khanh Vy - Owner of Vanessa flower shop in Ward 3, Tay Ninh city shared that although flower prices have increased sharply, customers' purchasing power has not decreased. Before Valentine's Day, her flower shop received more than 50 orders for bouquets and baskets of fresh flowers. Customers mainly bought roses, hydrangeas, gerberas, etc. To attract customers, her flower shop has created new fresh flower designs such as transparent fresh flower suitcases, mini flower bouquets that are affordable for young people, etc.

Vanessa flower shop bouquets flowers for customers.

Transparent suitcase fresh flower basket is chosen by many young people as a gift on Valentine's Day this year.

Cakes and chocolates are in high demand.

During Valentine’s season, chocolate is almost an indispensable gift. In Tay Ninh market, cake shops also follow the trend of selling chocolate candy to meet customers’ needs. Although the chocolate candy designs are not too rich, it creates more choices for customers on this Valentine’s Day.

Valentine's style chocolate box from Trinh Tran Bakery.

At Trinh Tran bakery (Ward 4, Tay Ninh city), the atmosphere of preparing confectionery products for Valentine's Day is very bustling. While preparing cakes to deliver to customers and decorating the Valentine's photo corner for customers coming to buy at the shop, Ms. Tran Ngoc Trinh - owner of Trinh Tran bakery said that to prepare for Valentine's Day this year, the shop has made many new types of confectionery to serve customers, including white chocolate, dark chocolate, strawberry chocolate and cakes with the sweet flavor of cherry (cherry) such as cherry cheese cake, cherry fresh cream chocolate cake...

Trinh Tran Bakery staff are busy displaying cakes.

In particular, the shop designs cakes with lovely images such as bears, flowers, hearts; each line of cakes will be designed with different cake boxes so that customers can easily bring them as gifts for their loved ones. Ms. Trinh commented that, unlike previous years, this year customers bought cakes quite early, no longer waiting until the day to give gifts, so the shop has been fulfilling orders for many days. "Whether it is a holiday or not, the shop still maintains the price and operates at full capacity to meet customer demand" - Ms. Trinh said.

Trinh Tran Bakery staff decorate the Valentine cake display area.

This year Valentine's Day falls on Friday, not the weekend, so many young couples take advantage of their free days to date and give each other sweet gifts to express their feelings.

The young couple happily dated before Valentine's Day.

Having just received a bouquet of fresh flowers on her date with her boyfriend, Ms. Trieu Ngoc Tram, a resident of Tan Hong district, Dong Thap province, a tourist visiting Tay Ninh province happily shared that to have memories on Valentine's Day, she and her friends and boyfriend went to Tay Ninh for tourism and sightseeing. At the end of the day, the two separated to go on a date and she unexpectedly received a lovely bouquet of flowers as a Valentine's gift from her boyfriend.

“There are many flower shops in Tay Ninh, so we easily found a satisfactory flower shop through social networks. The lovely bouquet of flowers helped our love become stronger and we had more beautiful memories in Tay Ninh” – Ms. Tram happily said.

Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day, is a very special holiday in some Western countries. This is an opportunity for young people to express their love to their partner. Nowadays, Valentine's Day is not only 1 day but 3 days in a year. Each day has its own meaning and message.

Red Valentine's Day February 14 is a traditional Valentine's Day known to many people. On this day, those who want to express their feelings to their loved ones can give gifts or cards with their own feelings. On Red Valentine's Day, everyone can give gifts to each other, regardless of men or women.

White Valentine's Day, March 14, originated in Japan. This is a day that many people welcome with the meaning of responding to the other person's feelings if they were confessed before on February 14. This is a day "full of excitement and anticipation" because everyone hopes to receive a gift affirming their feelings from the boy/girl they love.

Black Valentine's Day, April 14, originated in Korea. It is a day for singles. On Black Valentine's Day, many people gather together to celebrate singles' day. At the same time, anyone can give gifts to each other, as long as the giver and the recipient are both single.

Linh San

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