As related to me by Taylor Dixon, a tai-pan in the truest sense:
- Hong Kong citizens, by law, cannot own guns
- Many streets, squares, plazas and buildings in Hong Kong are named Jardine, which was the family name of one of the earliest and most prolific Hong Kong families responsible for building most of the joint, or at least making the most money off of it
- The unofficial (well, I guess in some circles it can be official, as in wholly legit) title of Tai-pan is bestowed upon the most robust of business execs that have achieved the highest esteem (and that strike fear into the hearts of their competitors, and young children)
- The government owns all of the land above the metro stations. Since they can make a killing building condos and commercial towers there, the cost of a metro ticket is heavily subsidized, and is therefore supercheap
- If a tree falls on the peak in Hong Kong, and nobody is around to hear it or see it fall, then it never really fell at all (according to Hong Kong municipal bylaw C-12)
- The above fact is a joke, and not a fact
