The mandarin oranges, Yes the golden color oranges from Mainland China is back as always during the period of the Chinese New year...This year would be the year of the Monkey....Well the market is flooded with this mandarin oranges and in the supermarket that I visited recently...there were already display on the shelve at the fruits section...the loose one of course...the one that are pack in golden boxes are stacks at the entrance of the supermarket as it is usually done on such festive occasion...The atmosphere of the supermarket has now turn Chinese...with the music playing Chinese New Year tune as it always does...So one could feel the atmosphere changes into the Chinese New Year mood...Everywhere the decoration has been red...the color love by the Chinese....For years that one could remember, these mandarin oranges appear without fail in the market place during the CNY festive season... And it would be in the market for a month or so...it is during this period that we would be able to enjoy the sweet sour taste of this festive oranges...A great tradition of the Chinese...And Malaysia being a multiracial country...where the Chinese Malaysian makes not less the thirty five percent of the population...the celebration of this festival is as great as ever and enjoyed by all Malaysian...so this year we already get to taste the mandarin oranges...a once a year affair with this golden fruits that symbolized prosperity....I bought some and took it home to sample this year golden harvest...Well it taste...the taste of the sweet sour of the mandarin oranges...What else....Great.....The oranges would be there for a while and once the stock is finished then it would not be seen... not until the next Chinese New year........