Inside the hangar-like halls, the air is thick with burning incense, the pungent odours of durian fruit and fresh herbs, and the rubbery, plastic smell of a thousand useless trinkets.

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The quarter is filled with the smell of incense and tobacco, with the sounds of shouted commerce and hushed conversation in candlelit tea rooms.

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Festival highlights include the Tai Hang dragon parade (18 to 20 September), featuring a 67m-long straw dragon lit with tens of thousands of incense sticks.

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This 12th-century incense burner is incised with calligraphy that identifies its maker and first owner.

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At times, songs such as "Incense Cone, " with its mellow bass and doo-wop chorus, are colored by 1960s influences.

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It's based on orange blossom, with notes of beeswax and frankincense (for the candles and incense in the procession).

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You could stand there, Christian, Jew, Muslim or atheist, and watch him dance for hours, with the swallows flitting overhead and the smell of centuries-old incense in your nostrils.

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At the center of the shed, which is littered with building materials, is a red shrine where apples, tea and incense have been made as offerings to a folk god for construction workers.

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With the right mood music playing, as well as the correct balance of wine and incense, I can see valuations like Apple, Rackspace, Zynga, Facebook, the list goes on and on, being just fine.

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