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Originally Posted by ORDnHKG
Originally Posted by
slippahs
2. When we arrived at the Wishing Tree (mid-day on a Thursday), we were the only ones there. There wasn't any signage in English, except where the Wishing Tree once was, explaining what it was. There was a teen to mid-twenties looking man and an old lady selling joss paper and joss sticks. After we walked around a bit exploring the area, the old lady came up to us and sold us two joss papers for $20HKD. Had no idea what to do because they didn't speak any English, nor were there any signs on what to do, so we were at a loss.
Just curious, if you don't know what to do about it, why did you go there in the first place ?
Just to let you know, going there on a thursday or any weekdays are a bad choice from the beginning, even locals wouldn't do that. The wishing tree only popular when it is Chinese New Year for the locals, but it is defiantely not a tourist spot.
Originally Posted by
slippahs
3. At one point, I pulled out my wallet to pay for the joss sticks and had a $100HKD bill, which I saw that the woman clearly saw, who then called over the teenage son. He then wanted me to pay additional monies for I believe incense, at which point I started to wonder whether this was all a scam (our scam alerts were running high, especially since we were the only two there).
It is no difference than outside Wong Tai Sin Temple, there were many old woman selling incense, basically just ignore them and walk away. If you talk about scam, there are many scams in the night market in ladies street. Anything you buy there have no fixed price, all depends on your debate skills.
We went there on the recommendation of a post in the stickied thread, trusting the nature of advice posted therein (and the subsequent, "great ideas" replies that follow). We can argue about trusting the info posted by fellow FTers but that won't get us anywhere. I'm just merely sharing my experience.
Btw, no one said anything about not going during the weekday as far as I saw, so good to point out to others.