Moo Deng Mania Brings In Big Baht for Small Thai Businesses

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Small businesses in Thailand are booming as "Moo Deng Mania" sweeps the country after the pygmy hippo calf at a local zoo became a viral sensation around the world.

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00:00With her pink cheeks, natural cuteness and irresistible charm, Moodeng is taking social

00:05media by storm.

00:07The pygmy hippo from Thailand has helped the Khao Kieu Open Zoo generate over 500,000 US

00:13dollars in ticket sales since September, boosting local businesses in a wave known as Moodeng

00:19Mania.

00:20In Bangkok, one cafe has been slammed with orders since it began creating hippo-shaped

00:25delights.

00:27Since I started making Moodeng cakes, I haven't been able to sleep or sleep at all.

00:31I've been making Moodeng cakes every day until the morning and I've been able to make

00:36hundreds of them in 10 days.

00:39And it's not just the cake's cuteness, customers also love the taste.

00:44It's delicious.

00:45The cake is soft and has strawberry sauce.

00:50It's delicious.

00:52Meanwhile, other businesses have seized the opportunity to profit from Moodeng Mania,

00:58including the booming blind box art toy market in Thailand.

01:22Thanks to Moodeng's charm, the artist says sales of mystery boxes shot to over 1,000

01:31within a week of the product's launch.

01:33That's a figure that typically takes an entire month to reach.

01:37Now, with Moodeng's influence extending beyond the digital world to consumers overseas, she's

01:43boosting businesses from cosmetics to fashion, bringing significant benefits to her country

01:49in more ways than one.

01:51Haua Zhang, An Sanichi, for Taiwan Plus.

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