gourd-shaped pomelo

These unique and exotic fruits are already attracting customers even before Tet (Lunar New Year).

Many fruits with unique shapes and colors are sought after by consumers for display and as gifts during the Lunar New Year.

Video: Watermelons shaped like gold bars, priced at 3,5 million VND per pair, sell out quickly during Tet.

Watermelons shaped like gold bars and square watermelons, priced from 2 to 3,5 million VND per pair, are in high demand in Ho Chi Minh City for Tet decorations, but are still unavailable.

Pomelos shaped like gourds and carved with characters, priced at millions of VND, are causing a sensation in the market during the Lunar New Year of the Pig.

Each potted pomelo bonsai with carved inscriptions, shaped like a gourd, costs no less than 5 million VND, but they have all been pre-ordered by customers from all over.

The unusual square pomelo fruit has appeared in Vietnam for the first time.

There will be 8.000 shaped pomelos supplied to the market this Tet holiday, priced from several hundred thousand to millions of dong per pair, according to the "king of gourd-shaped pomelos" in the Mekong Delta. He added that this year is the first time he has launched pomelos shaped like gold bars onto the market.

People are scrambling to 'hunt' for green tea and Himalayan salt-marinated pork to celebrate Tet.

Himalayan pink salt sells for up to 180.000 VND/kg in Vietnam, and pork marinated in green tea is another unusual product that Saigon residents are eagerly ordering.

A pair of pomelos with a map of Vietnam on them costs 3 million dong.

To prepare for the Tet market in 2017 (Year of the Rooster), Mr. Ngo Van Son in Dong Nai province has creatively produced hundreds of pairs of gourd-shaped pomelos bearing names such as "Wealth and Fortune," "Gold Bar," and "Map of Vietnam including the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos."