Characteristics of Temple Street

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.

Temple street is not long, but there are many people on holidays, which is enough for you to walk for a long time. Tired of walking, you might as well walk into a dessert shop and drink a bowl of mung bean paste to drive away the summer heat. At the end of Temple Street, there are several food stalls. You can sit down and eat seafood and taste Indian flavor, or just stand by and chew a few strings of beef balls and fish eggs on the road.

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.

Tin Hau Temple is located in Banyan Tree Head, Yau Ma Tei, which divides a temple street into two parts. The south wall of the temple is very quiet, and there are fortune-telling stalls all the way. The stall owners put on a half-fairy appearance one by one, some people really sat down and asked about their future, and some young men and women came to ask about marriage events. If you come early, you might as well go to the east, where a group of Cantonese opera fans are playing and singing, offering you the original Cantonese opera.

The temple street archway, which cost HK$ 3 million, was unveiled at 6: 30 pm on 20 10 12 18. These two archways are located at the junction of Gansu Street and Jordan Road. They are10.5m high and 8.9m wide. They are the first landmark archway in Hong Kong. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was presided over by the Director of Home Affairs, Mrs Pamela Tan, from Jordan Road to the south. The streets are crowded with Kyushu's property and wealth. The archway couplet facing north in Temple Street reads: "The temple displays the traditional culture of China; This street shows the innovative spirit of Hong Kong. 」