Temple Street in Kowloon, Hong Kong, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong is a distinctive street. Hong Kong films are infested Young and Dangerous "Yau Tsim Mong" (Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui) one zone. Take the subway and get off in hemp oil, the export of C, you can easily find the Temple Street.

Many movies have to view the article streets. Temple Street night market to sell inexpensive goods is known, has been hailed Hong Kong's civilian nightclub.

Temple Street is half the sizzling popularity of Hong Kong films like "Iron Chef," "Temple Story", "Queen of Temple Street," "Temple twelve less" and "Mother Temple Brothers" and other films, are based on here is the background. Some young people to Hong Kong, always casually asked: Temple Where?

Named

Qing Dynasty, built a Temple in the middle of Tin Hau Temple, Yau Ma Tei, namely Tin Hau Temple, Temple Street, hence the name. Since the 1940s, this is itinerant character and colored outsiders such as polyethylene and feet. Temple Street is a street, Tin Hau Temple, Yau Ma Tei it into two, north period known as the "Temple North", south of the period known as the "Temple Street."

On the other hand, due to the nature of the Temple is similar to Mong Kok Ladies Market, and people visiting places dominated by men, it is also "Men Street" in the title. Hong Kong's younger generation, and many more "old Temple", commonly known as the Temple Street.

Men Street

The reason why the man also known as Temple Street, initially because this small vendors sell mostly items used by men. Now, however, this feature is no longer evident, where you can find all kinds of bizarre merchandise, from Candid Camera to fake antiques, signpost from Hong Kong to counterfeit supplies colorful, cartoon toys from imitation leather to A, from opera to tape insect specimens ...... it is this complicated, so that overseas visitors feel strange, let locals come to Taobao.

Television viewfinder

Temple Street, it should be said that the standard image of Hong Kong on behalf of the marketplace. For never been to Hong Kong people, there are always mysterious Temple - Temple Street is "Temple Story" in accordance with health and Wu Qianlian Zheng interpretation of rivers and lakes and love, is the "Iron Chef" Lishidifen week launched scores Melancholy of theater, is "Temple twelve little" in the story of Liu Dehua and his numerous and twelve godfather godmother, "new Everlasting love" in Lau Ching Wan period of love.

History background

Temple Street in early 1887 on the Kowloon Map existing record. Was divided into two sections Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei Tin Hau Temple is a period known as the "Temple North" boundary north, to the south of the period known as the "Temple Street." Starting from the 1920s, Hau Temple on out (commonly known as "Banyan Tree"), began to develop into a night bazaar-style open space, led to a lot of debris and refreshment stalls trafficking exist near Temple Street. Plaza on the streets of Public Square Street area (English as PUBLIC SQUARE previously translated as "Public Square Street"), also made the square its name.

In 1968, the government intends to build Liang Xianli Community Center near Tin Hau Temple Square, causing more than 200 hawkers operating there dissatisfaction with the relocation arrangements. After the Yau Ma Tei neighborhood and the Hong Kong police coordination, the government decided to stand aside for rehousing in Temple Street and Shanghai Street near Banyan Tree area, but subject to allocation by drawing lots.

March 1975, when the Hong Kong Council on Temple Street set aside "HPP", the original Temple Street hawkers get systematic management. Temple Street hawker permitted area includes some civilization to Public Square Street and a section Gansu Street to Nanjing Street, a total of nearly 600 demarcated position for hawking. Originally stalls open for business in the evening, in 1998, part of the change in business hours starting from noon.

Temple Features

Daily evening hours beginning Temple roadside stalls will be open for business. Those goods stalls selling quite diverse, including male clothing, handicrafts, tea sets, jade, antiques, and even cheap electronics have. Tin Hau Temple in the vicinity are also many stalls fortune-telling and the Air phase, there will be more opera performances. In the early years there are a number of martial arts performers and performances sell drugs.

In addition, Temple Street there are many stalls selling snacks specialties, such as seafood, pasta and so on and all kinds of claypot. Price is not expensive the rest, the level is quite good, also popular with locals and even tourists are welcome.

Temple Street is not long, but during the holidays crowded, but also enough for you to embark on a good while. Tired, you may wish to enter a dessert, drink a bowl of green bean, drive a drive heat. At the end of Temple Street, and several food stalls, you can sit down and eat seafood, you can taste the flavors of India, or simply standing on the roadside, chew on a few strings of beef balls, fish balls or something.

Temple Street also opened some mahjong, some several decades of history, and even traditional cultural characteristics, patronized mostly older people.

Tin Hau Temple on Youmadi banyan head, a Temple life and life into two. Against the south wall of the temple, more silence, a row of children are fortune teller, fortune-telling stall. One by one stall assumed a demigod appearance, it was really sit down and ask future, there are young men and women to ask marriage. Come early if you wish to walk to the east, where there are a bunch of opera fans, but also playing and singing one song after another for you to offer authentic Cantonese.

Scenic Area Address: Hong Kong Yau Tsim Mong District Yau Ma Tei Temple Street

Car lines: Metro Yau Ma Tei Station can be reached