The "Temple Street" in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong, is quite famous and has appeared in many Hong Kong dramas and movies. It is a short street, which has a variety of food stalls, but also sells a variety of small goods, the price is relatively low, a bit similar to the previous Xiamen "Renhe Road" and "Xiaxi Road", is the city of Hong Kong has a strong taste of the area, the Hong Kong film "God Eater" and "Temple Street Queen" the story of the place where the story takes place. Temple Street is very close to the hotel where I stayed, and we walked back and forth there several times on our last trip to Hong Kong to get a close feel for the local atmosphere of Hong Kong.
The population density in Yau Ma Tei is relatively high, and the small open space under the building has become a leisure place for neighbors.
This is the "civilization" of Yau Ma Tei, and there are still many people who stay there at night to relax.
Temple Street snacks are said to be very famous, but it will not open until after the third day of junior high school, we found a nearby "Cuihua Tea Restaurant", which is highly recommended by the online raiders, but after eating it, I feel general, I don't know if we did not order the right dish, or the standard of their home is like this.
It was hard to wait until the third day of the Chinese New Year, and Temple Street finally opened.
Sure enough, the popularity is very strong, the streets are full of people, and many foreigners also come to join in the fun.
I haven't eaten at such a lively stall for a long time, and I don't know what to order, so I looked at the crowded stall and squeezed in, and found that the soup powder was not bad.
Fish egg soup is general, similar to Xiamen's fish balls.
At the end of Temple Street is the "Tin Hau Temple", which is also named after the "Tin Hau Temple" next to it. Because there are large leafy banyan trees there, also called "banyan tree heads". Compared with the temple street next to it, it is much cleaner and there are no people. In the past, it may be that the Hong Kong films of fighting and killing have seen too much, and I always feel that Temple Street seems to be very unsafe, in fact, these days I often walk around in this area, I feel good, I will not feel any unsafe.
In the past, Yau Ma Tei was a sandbar where fishermen moored their boats to settle down, so they built the "Tin Hau Temple" to worship.
In 1876, the Temple of Tin Hau was relocated to the "Head of the Banyan Tree" and has been preserved ever since.
During the day, Temple Street is relatively quiet, and only a few dim sum shops open early in the morning.
Before coming to see the raiders, they recommended the "Meidu Restaurant" located at the end of Temple Street, saying that this restaurant opened in 1950 and still retains the decoration style of that year, so I picked a noon to eat. Found this to be a very strange restaurant, we arrived at 10:45, closed the door, the guy came out and said that it was not open until 11 o'clock, not allowed to enter, we had to go somewhere else. When I came back again, it was 11:30, the door was still closed, an uncle who looked like the boss came out and said that there was a lack of manpower, the upstairs seats were full, and there were not so many people, but obviously the downstairs was empty and no one was sitting, and no one booked. We said it was cold outside, so we could let us in and wait, or just sit downstairs, but the boss just closed the glass door and said he wouldn't let us in. I wanted to turn around and leave, but then I felt that I had never encountered such a dragging restaurant, saying that I had to go in and see what it was dragging. [Cover your face]
After going in, I found that the so-called nostalgic decoration style is such a small glass cabinet, which has some old clocks and telephones and other ornaments, an old ceiling fan hanging from the ceiling, and mosaics on the floor, which really can't say what features are, can only say that this store has not been renovated since it opened in the 50s. The attitude of the owner is extremely poor, shouting and drinking inside, making it feel like coming to eat a free meal, which is very uncomfortable.
If they say that their things are delicious, it is understandable to drag them a little, but the things are not delicious at all. Pineapple oil bun is not yet the standard of Xiamen Cantonese tea restaurant, the signature eggplant sauce rib rice and eggplant sauce pork rice how to say it, it is estimated that it is the difficult period of the 1950s will think that such a thing is delicious, and it is not cheap, a very small plate of rice to 58 Hong Kong dollars, I really don't know where the bottom is so dragged. Even so, there are still many mainland tourists who come to the scene and brave the cold wind outside the glass door to queue up, which is really unbearable to watch. I said compatriots, don't trust the description and recommendation of the online guide, this store really can not go!
After a very angry lunch, I came out and continued shopping.
There is also the "Yau Ma Tei Police Station" around Yau Ma Tei, and many Hong Kong films in the memory of Sir Ah have squatted here.
Next to the police station is the jade market
I went in and looked at it, and all I was selling was some stalls.
Further on is the "Yau Ma Tei Market", where you can enter and see the wet markets in Hong Kong with great interest.
Found that similar to the domestic vegetable market, the price of green vegetables is not cheap, tomatoes a pound of 10 yuan, cabbage 9.5 yuan, kale 24 yuan.
After coming out of the wet market, I went to see the Yau Ma Tei Theatre, which is an old theater, but after the transformation, the appearance can not see any characteristics.
Near the theater is a dense collection of high-rise buildings, it feels that the public land in Hong Kong is not large, but it is relatively clean.
This concludes my travelogue in Hong Kong. This time belongs to the independent in-depth tour, deliberately chose to live in Yau Ma Tei, in order to experience the local atmosphere of Hong Kong up close. The itinerary includes taking the crystal cable car to Lantau Island, visiting the Tai O fishing village connected by tall shacks, taking the "Star Ferry" to enjoy the night view of Victoria Harbour, storming the streets of Central, walking into the university campus of Hong Kong, touring the Stanley Peninsula, and exploring hong Kong's "Kowloon Walled Park" based on the prototype of the movie "Kung Fu" "Pig Cage Walled City". Revisiting Hong Kong after many years is really emotional, and I will write about my feelings next time.