On Feb. 2 Mayumi Market celebrated Lunar New Year at Common Space Brewery in Hawthorne for the first market of the year.

The market was with booths full of vendors with DJ Magie Hue mixing good beats on the turntable.

“I think it’s great to have the community come together to celebrate. I grew up celebrating with my family, so it’s great to celebrate here with friends and the community,” Hue said.

Katrina Lamas who runs Kachu Shave Ice discussed her business, “It’s Hawaiian-style shave ice. I make most of my own syrups and toppings, a coconut whip that’s really good that goes on top of all the shaved ice.”

The biggest line for food vendors was Cesar Moran and Sariah Ho One Hot Minute.

“We’re a plant-based Peruvian-Chinese fusion pop-up. We remix flavors from our childhood and combine them together, create new interesting dishes. we started with our sandwich, our butifarra, but our Sichuan thick handful noodles, our best-seller,” Moran said.

Thao Nguyen who was another attendee, shared his thoughts on the Mayumi Market, “Very fun. Love to see all the community coming together, different types of vendors, different types of food. Yeah, it’s really fun.”

Mayuni Fox the organization of Mayumi Market shared plans for the market this year, “Yeah, we’re actually going to be starting a residency at Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles So there’s a bottom floor. So we’re going to be there. I think the third Saturday is with every month starting in March.”

In previous years people used to call it Chinese New Year, but now it has changed to Lunar New Year with Volunteer Jungmin Lee sharing her thoughts on it.

“I’m Korean, so we also celebrate Lunar New Year. I think it’s just a matter of preference for people. For me, Lunar New Year is more inclusive to all of the different countries and ethnicities that do celebrate Lunar New Year.”

Esther Park who runs Grumpy Chocolatier talked about what her bestseller is. “It’s my bonbons are my best sellers its artisanal chocolate in small batches.”

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Linh Nguyen who sells and runs BAC Vietnamese jewelry talked about her best-selling jewelry, “My best seller is a square ring shape. It’s what’s inspired by Banh Kyung, which is a traditional cake that we have during Lunar New Year. It represents the land. It went back to 400 years ago. It was the origin of Vietnam.”

The state of New York has become the first state ever to close schools for Lunar New Year.

Fox also shared her opinion that the Lunar New Year should be a federal holiday, “Yeah, definitely. Just like Western New Year’s is a national holiday. That’d be cool if we have Lunar New Year closed.”