Hollywood Rd. Daily 8am-6pm. Free. The Man Mo Temple is one of Hong Kong’s oldest, built in the 1840s and equipped with interior decorations from mainland China, all hung with smouldering incense spirals.

The temple’s name derives from the words for “civil” (man) and “martial” (mo): the first attribute belongs to the god of literature, Man Cheong, who protects civil servants (he’s the red-robed statue wielding a writing brush); the latter to the martial deity, Kuan Ti (represented by another statue, in green, holding a sword). Kuan Ti is based on the real-life warrior Kuan Yu of the Three Kingdoms Period (around 220 AD), who was protector of - among other things - pawnshops, policemen, secret societies and the military.

The other altars in the temple are to Pao Kung, the god of justice, and to Shing Wong, a god of the city, who protects the local neighbourhood.