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Features of Temple Street

Starting in the evening every day, the roadside stalls on Temple Street will open for business.

The items sold at those stalls are quite diverse, including men's clothing, handicrafts, tea sets, jade, antiques, and even cheap electronic products.

There are also many fortune-telling and fortune-telling stalls near Tin Hau Temple, as well as Cantonese opera performances.

In the early years, some martial arts masters performed and sold medicine here.

In addition, Temple Street also has many stalls selling specialty snacks, such as seafood, claypot rice, various types of noodles, etc.

Not only are the prices not expensive, the quality is also quite good, and they are very popular among local residents and even foreign tourists.

Temple Street is not long, but it is crowded during holidays, so you can walk for a while.

When you are tired from walking, you might as well go into a dessert shop and drink a bowl of mung bean paste to beat the heat.

At the end of Temple Street, there are several food stalls where you can sit down and eat seafood, try Indian flavors, or simply stand on the roadside and chew on a few skewers of beef balls, fish eggs, etc.

There are also some mahjong parlors in Temple Street, some of which are decades old and have traditional cultural characteristics. Most of them are patronized by the older generation.

Tin Hau Temple is located at Banyan Tree Head in Yau Ma Tei, dividing a temple street into two.

Against the south wall of the temple, it is relatively quiet, and there are stalls lined up for fortune telling and fortune telling.

The stall owners all pretended to be semi-immortals. Some people actually sat down to ask about their future, and there were also young men and women who came to ask about marriage.

If you arrive early, you might as well take a walk to the east, where there are a group of Cantonese music fans who play and sing, presenting you with authentic Cantonese songs one after another.

The Temple Street Archway, which cost HK$3 million, was unveiled at 6:30 pm on December 18, 2010. The two archways are located at the junction of Gansu Street and Jordan Road. They are 10.5 meters high and 8.9 meters wide. They are the first archways in Hong Kong.

A landmark archway, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was presided over by the Director of Home Affairs, Mrs Chan Kam-mei-wa. Looking south from Jordan Road into Temple Street, the couplets on the archway read: "The temple is glorious and the world is prosperous, and thousands of industries are prosperous; the streets are bustling with Kyushu, Wufu and Wanbangtong."

"Couplet on the archway looking north from Temple Street: "The temple shows traditional Chinese culture; the street shows Hong Kong's innovative spirit.