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Plan on having your laundry done while in port. Servicemen’s Guides Association along with one of our Fenwick Pier shopkeepers will do laundry and even dry cleaning with a 24-hour service.
Current cost for laundry is US$7.00 for 8 pounds. Dry cleaning is at a competitive price. Laundry is accepted from 0900 hours to 1600 hours. After that it can be dropped off at the sports shop on the second floor. Time for acceptance of the last laundry will be posted.
Laundry done with a smile
Lockers are available FREE to naval visitors. All active duty military visitors may use our FREE short-time storage lockers. Bring your own lock or buy one for US$4.00. Keep it when you leave.
The Jade Market is a great place to pick up inexpensive jade gifts. Do not buy expensive jade unless you thoroughly know jade quality. With rows of merchants sitting behind boxes of pendants, rings and earrings, it is hard to decide where and what to buy. After buying jade, a market jeweler can attach a gold clip at very low cost, the result really enhances the jade.
While jade is the main item for sale, you can find other trinkets and souvenirs like crystal balls and other inexpensive jewelry. Bargaining is the name of the game. The Jade Market is near Temple Street. (Yau Ma Tei MTR Station) It is open from 1000 to 1530. BUYER BEWARE.
Dinnerware is a good buy
On your way to the Jade Market is Yau Ma Tei’s Tin Hau Temple in the midst of a concrete playground where old men play cards resembling dominoes. It is larger than Man-Mo temple, yet much smaller than Wong Tai Sin.
The patron of fishing people, the image of Tin Hau was thought by early missionaries to be modeled on the image of the Blessed Mother. Look inside at the spiraling incense burned before the statues of Tin Hau. If one incense stick (joss-stick) is good then fifty must be better.
The biggest, most popular temple for tourists and local alike is Wong Tai Sin, built in 1921. The resident Taoist god has earned a great reputation for his powers of predicting the future and so, more than one hundred fortune tellets rent stalls just outside the temple. Many speak enough English to tell you fortune.
An ecumenical temple, it combines Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism with superstition thrown in. It has more than three million visitors annually. Inexpensive medical care is available at the temple’s outpatient medical clinic.
Wong Tai Sin Temple serves three religions
On major Buddhist holidays the temple is jammed. Your incense sticks may be in the sand pot only a few minutes before being removed by an attendant who clears them out to make room for others. Chinese people are very unselfconscious about their public worship and do not mind your taking pictures.
Wong Tai Sin is a great place to see traditional Chinese temple architecture, with its red pillars, multi-tiered golden roofs and colorful carvings. You’ll see tables piled with fruit, food and lighted incense sticks and places for burning paper "Hell Bank" money as bribes for evil spirits. Observe some worshippers who shake containers of numbered sticks until only one falls out. If the number retrieved is not suitable, the stick is reinserted and the container shaken again until the desired fortune stick emerges.
Open from 0700-1730 daily, admission to Wong Tai Sin Temple is FREE, but a small donation may be given at the entrance. Temple guidebooks are at the temple information booth. There is a train station called, Wong Tai Sin, near the temple.
Replica of wall in Beijing Forbidden City