Where is the Temple Street mentioned in Hong Kong Opera?

Temple Street, located in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong, is a distinctive street in Hong Kong. Many movies are set in this street. Temple Street is famous for selling cheap night markets, and is known as a civilian nightclub in Hong Kong.

The origin of the name

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a Tianhou Palace in the middle of Temple Street, hence the name Temple Street. On the other hand, because the nature of Temple Street is similar to that of Women Street in Mong Kok, and the tourists are mainly men, it is also called Men Street.

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Every evening, the stalls along the temple street will open. The goods sold in those stalls are quite diverse, including men's wear, handicrafts, tea sets, jade articles, antiques and even cheap electronic products. There are also many fortune-telling and photo-viewing booths near Tianhou Temple, and there will be Cantonese opera performances. In the early years, some martial artists performed here to sell art and medicine.

In addition, there are many stalls selling special snacks in Temple Street, such as seafood, clay pot rice and various pasta. The price is not expensive, the standard is quite good, and it is also very popular with local residents and even foreign tourists.

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

Influence on the media

Temple Street will appear in many Hong Kong movies and some foreign movies set in Hong Kong, and is usually described as a place full of dragons and snakes and crimes. In addition, the TV series "Miao Brothers" without TV also takes this street as the story scene.