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Wong Tai Sin is one of
Kowloon's most colorful and popular temples. As Wong Tai
Sin is also the god of good fortune, worshippers come here not
only to pray but also to have their futures foretold.
Standing before the altar, they focus on a subject of concern
while dossling a container of numbered sticks. When a
stick falls out, they give the number to one of the numerous
fortune-tellers who tell them what the near future holds. Participants
can also dossle sticks or opt to have their face or hand read.
The Bird Street is a fascinating open-air park with stalls
selling and trading all types of domesticated birds. Beautiful
bamboo cages, seeds, and bags of grasshoppers and worms are
also sold here. The Chinese hobbiests are particularly
fascinated by song birds and birds that can speak. When
having breakfast in restaurants or meeting friends in a park,
they will quite often take their feathered companions along. |