Wong Tai Sin Temple is a famous shrine in Hong Kong. Most worshippers were practicing Kau Chim. Basically you use incense sticks to make wishes. From Wikipedia: "They light incense sticks, kneel before the main altar, make a wish, and shake a bamboo cylinder containing fortune sticks until a stick falls out. This stick is exchanged for a piece of paper bearing the same number, and then the soothsayer will interpret the fortune on the paper for the worshiper." That's why the air smells of incense, and everywhere you walk you hear the sound of cylinders being shaken.
I didn't know this so I just bowed three times in the altar, Korean style. Note, photography is not allowed in the main temple.
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