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Lam Tsuen Well-Wishing Festival in Lam Tsuen
The Lam Tsuen Well-Wishing Festival centres on the wishing trees near Tin Hau Temple in Fong Ma Po Village, where visitors throw paper wishes weighted with oranges toward branches during Lunar New Year, believing a successfully caught wish brings luck. An organised festival with food stalls, games and music has run around the site since 2011, following a 2005 incident that led to the original tree being replaced with a plastic substitute.
Thousands of yellow paper wishes, weighted with an orange, are thrown toward a wishing tree near the Tin Hau Temple in Lam Tsuen's Fong Ma Po Village every Lunar New Year, continuing a custom that predates the artificial tree now used to protect visitors and the tree itself.