My wife and I went to Hong Kong when we were young and are heading back this April. When we went the first time we ended up at a fairly large temple, where you could take your fortune to one of many fortune tellers who were set up in booths around the outside of the temple complex. Does this ring a bell to anyone, we can%26#39;t remember how exactly we ended up there but really want to go back again, anybody help us out ?
help to find a particular temple with fortune tellersYou are probably talking about Wong Tai Sin Temple. Take the MTR subway to Wong Tai Sin Station and just follow the signs.
help to find a particular temple with fortune tellersYup, I also think it%26#39;s Wong Tai Sin Temple.
Is that the one you pass walking down from the escalator?? Cos I thought we got son%26#39;s fortune told in a Man Mo. '; work hard and obey parents'; - best $20 we spent - best kid fortune ever!!
Wong Tai Sin is the generally well-known area for fortune telling. I actually wasn%26#39;t aware that Man Mo Temple had such services as well although it wouldn%26#39;t be surprising. You can also find the fortune tellers at Temple St Night Market.
You can get your fortune told at Man Mo temple, although from the OP%26#39;s description that probably wasn%26#39;t the place. There are about 8 (?) fortune tellers at Man Mo. They seem to be in one room to the right of the temple, not in stalls around the outside.
Ah well, it wasn%26#39;t so much fortune tellers as a fortuneteller. So I don%26#39;t think they make a big thing of it. Very nice scholarly man. And he certainly said the right things. I%26#39;m not sure it had a great effect but I%26#39;d rather he said that then %26#39;forget the parents, don%26#39;t bother with homework, and spend all your money on drink and women.%26#39;
Wow, I was born in HK and live right by the Man Mo temple and never knew there was a fortune teller there! As far as Wong Tai Sin goes, my dad swears by the fortune tellers there and says he saved over $100,000 US by taking their advice on when to offload some property. :)
Most temples large and small(che kung, man mo,..) and monasteries(tsing chung koon, pao lin ..) in HK have fortune telling by the sticks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kau_cim), though only a handful have the ';interpreters'; outside銆€year round to explain the story sheet you pick out. If you saw a few DOZEN fortune tellers outside, it would have been Wong Tai Sin.
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. Yes by looking at the pictures that is the temple we went too.
Thanks again!!
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