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Temple Street (庙街)

After watching the Symphony of Lights at the Avenue of Stars, we headed back to our hotel. It was already 10pm when we went out again to have our dinner/supper and to go to the famous Temple Street.

I really want to see how’s the real Temple Street looks like as I’ve always watched and heard it from the TVB dramas (recently watched one which talks about singing in Temple Street). I hope to see those ‘mai cheong’ (sell sing. hehe, direct translation), nor those sing and asked ppl to give money one leh.. Hope can see lar…

It was about 15 minutes walk from our hotel to Temple Street and on our way to Temple Street, I saw the Dorsett Seaview Hotel. If you follow tours, normally for the accommodation, they will give you this hotel. In fact I did consider booking this hotel before I decided to book the YMCA but after some research, I gave up on this hotel, they doesn’t seems to have good reputation. A lot of complaints and now when I see it for myself, I’m glad that I’ve made the right choice.

Here we are, Temple Street

Welcome to Temple Street

This is it? How come like so few ppl one? The ladies street are much more crowded and more stalls! I’m so disappointed, this is definitely not the same like what we saw in the TVB drama!

Nothing much to see..

It’s like a pasar malam to me! Besides selling accessories lar, bags lar, there’s also a lot of stalls selling sex toys!! There are also a street which full of people offering services like palm reading, card reading and etc. I was interested in the palm reading but that street was so dark and smelly, therefore I did not ask for the price.

We go one round and did not manage to get anything. When we’re about to leave, I finally saw the ‘mai cheong’ ppl. They are singing in a back lane, facing a wall!! There’s 2 ah po singing and one ah gong playing the ‘yii hu’ (二胡). How come I refer them as ah gong ah po? Cos they are really very old!! There were no audience at all and I really don’t know what they are singing..

At first we planned to have our dinner here but we can’t find any interesting food. Therefore, we decided to walk back to the Ladies Street to seek for food. What do I think about Temple Street? Err, nothing much to see, not crowded, not interesting at all!! Luckily I’m staying near Ladies Street and not Temple Street!!

We only spent about half an hour at Temple street and it was almost 11pm when we reached Ladies Street. We decided to try the Beef Porridge with Fried Cheong (牛肉粥与炸肠) (yao zha guai wrap with chee cheong fun) for dinner.

After dinner, we headed back to our hotel. It was really a fun and tired day, went to a lot of places, tried a lot of nice food, really looking forward for the next day to come!

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