TEMPLE STREET NIGHT MARKET

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Essentials about Temple Street Night Market in brief

If you want to experience a typical lively Hong Kong market, you should go to Temple Street Night Market. It is one of the liveliest and most famous markets in the city. As the name suggests, the market is located on Temple Street in Kowloon (named after the Tin Hau Temple located there). However, the name “Night Market” is only partly correct, because the market activities already start from 2 pm in the afternoon. But the market really gets going after dark. Then, day after day, crowds of tourists (and of course a few locals) flock to the market to stock up on all kinds of goods.

Shopping on Temple Street Night Market

The more than 100 colorfully lit market stalls sell just about everything: pants, shirts, shoes, telephone accessories, watches, jewelry, lighters, videos, antiques, jade and condoms. Since many of the products are aimed more at the gentlemen of creation, the Temple Street Night Market is also often referred to as the “men’s market”.

And, of course, as is customary in a real Hong Kong market, you have to haggle over the price with the vendors at Temple Street Night Market. A little tip: Since many of the buyers speak no or only broken English, the calculator on the smartphone helps to indicate the desired price. And another tip: Behind the market stalls, there are other stores on Temple Street. Since the dealers in the second row are often overlooked by tourists, you can often make even better bargains there than at the market stalls themselves.

Attractions on Temple Street

However, Temple Street is also a real experience away from the market stalls, allowing every visitor to immerse themselves a little in the native world of Hong Kong: Old men playing chess at plastic tables. Natural healers and herbalists selling medicinal herbs against every evil in the world. Chinese astrologers, card-readers and palmists who tell one’s fortune. If you’re dying to find out more about your destiny, you can even have a little caged bird pick a lucky card out of a deck of cards (anything goes in Hong Kong). And for musical entertainment, Cantonese opera singers perform their songs on Temple Street.

Eating and drinking on Temple Street

If you need a break from all the shopping and entertainment, you can enjoy seafood, rice and noodle dishes at one of the many cookshops that are open every night at the Temple Street Night Market.