Old Kowloon Tour

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.

  

The Jade Market is packed with dealers selling all manner of carved jade including bangles, earings, ornaments, and intricately detailed pendants.