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Wong Tai Sin

Hoping to win the lottery? Fortunes told here

Wong Tai Sin is enormously popular in Hong Kong, primarily because of its fame for fortune telling. Whether Taoist, Confucianist, or Buddhist, worshipers come here seeking information about their fortunes and advice for everything from which day is most auspicious to begin a business or to get married to which horse to bet on at the races. It’s a great place to experience local culture.

The most popular method for fortune telling is to shake a bamboo container holding numbered sticks. After lighting a joss stick and kneeling before the main alter, the worshipper concentrates on a specific question and shakes the container until a stick emerges from a hole. The stick’s number determines the answer, which is supplied downstairs for HK$30 by one of the fortune tellers, some of whom speak English. In-depth fortunes cost more, about HK$300.

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221BC–1911: Imperial Chinese Era

Northern Kowloon

Temples & Monasteries

Northern Kowloon In-A-Day

Farther Afield in Kowloon

Image by Andrew Moore