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Whether you were born in Hong Kong or moved here, you need to know if you are a real, quintessential Hong Kong Loony.
Just take this easy test and get an instant answer to a question we all ask ourselves from time to time.

1. Your favourite pizza topping is:

A - Marguerita.
B - Tinned fruit salad and 1000 Island Dressing.

2. You open a business, and decide to call it:

A - Hong Kong Trading Corp.
B - Billion Rich Glory Money 888 Corp.

3. At the office, a man phones you and asks to speak to your boss, Mr So. You reply

A - "Certainly, sir."
B - "How to spell?"

4. Your children

A - Refer to you as "Ma-mah" and "Ah-bah"?
B - Talk in Tagalog accents and call you "Ma’am" and "Sir"?

5. You expect the night watch security guard in your building to be

A - A guy in a uniform
B - Eight times the age of the building

6. You like to seduce women with the following words:

A - "Come up and see my etchings."
B - "I have a whole set of Hello Kitty plush dolls from McDonald’s."

7. When you buy condoms, which size do you ask for:

A - "Large"?
B - "Waaaah"?

8. You go out and discover that you have left your mobile phone at home. So you.

A - Put up your feet and have the most relaxed day you’ve had for ages.
B - Feel edgy and unsettled until you’ve wasted several work-hours by going home and collecting it.

9. You vote for the Democrats and so does everyone you know. You expect the Legislative Council to be dominated by

A - The Democrats.
B - Everyone except the Democrats.

10. You turn on the television during children’s viewing time. You expect to see.

A - Teletubbies.
B - Trailers for horror films.

11. You turn on the television during adults’ viewing time. You expect to see

A - Mature programmes for discerning adults.
B - Teletubbies.

12. You have an aisle seat on the bus. A pregnant woman with six bags of shopping gets on. Do you

A - Move up to make room for her?
B - Force her to climb over you, even if she drops six duck eggs and a filleted-but-flapping garoupa on your lap?

13. Your children are called

A - Lei-lei, Chi-keung, Jessica and Max.
B - Zipper, Speculum and Pudenda.

14. You are waiting in a lift lobby. Do you press the call button

A - Once?
B - Sixteen times, because it makes the elevator come faster?

15. Your life savings portfolio is made up of:

A- Equities, bonds and currency.
B - Video coupons and Maxim cake-shop vouchers.


16. Someone offers to rent you a car park space at HK$1,500 a month. You think

A - "That’s outrageous."
B - "That’s cheap."

17. You are at a Rugby Sevens match. Do you

A - Cheer, roar, scream and shout?
B - Clap quietly with gloves on so as not to disturb people on Broadwood Road?

18. You refer to the walk-in closet in your house as

A - The closet.
B - The servants’ quarters.

19. You order a new phone and you receive the number 4444 4444. Do you

A - Call and thank the phone company for giving you such an easy-to-remember number?
B - Burn the letter, change your name, and get a fung shui man to choose a new home for you?

20. Your domestic helper has to unexpectedly leave Hong Kong for two weeks. You

A - Enjoy looking after yourself for a while.
B - Wallow amid piles of dirty laundry suffering from malnutrition.

21. Your typical utterance as you speed along in a red-top minibus is

A - Arrrrggghhhh!
B - Yauh lohk.

22. You and your friends come out of a karaoke bar. You say to your host:

A - "Next time I choose where we go."
B - "You’re too drunk to sing so you better drive."

23. You answer an advertisement for a job as a "public relations girl" in a nightclub. You take with you

A - Your CV and a briefcase.
B - Fishnet stockings and a packet of condoms.



Okay, done it? Here are the answers.

BETWEEN 13 AND 23 OF YOUR ANSWERS WERE ‘A’:

You are an innocent person with normal human values. In other words, you are in big trouble here, buster.

YOUR ANSWERS WERE EVENLY DIVIDED, WITH NO MORE THAN TWELVE ANSWERS WHICH WERE ‘A’ OR ‘B’:

You are absorbing all that is worst about this place, although a little humanity remains within you. It may not be too late to save yourself.

BETWEEN 12 AND 23 OF YOUR ANSWERS WERE ‘B’:

You are the quintessential Hong Kong Loony. You cannot leave. You can no longer live in normal human society. Abandon hope. But at least you won’t be lonely. There are a lot of us around.

Nury Vittachi / Kee Yung