Take a taxi between 8am and 11am any weekday and chances are the driver will be tuned into Hong Kong's most controversial talk-show. Even if you cannot understand the language, there is no mistaking the loud insistent voice behind Commercial Radio One's Teacup in the Storm, or the show's signature sounds of a boiling kettle and tea dribbling into a cup.
But this morning - the first day of the SAR Government in Hong Kong - that voice will be eerily absent from the airwaves. Albert Cheng King-hon has the day off because of live coverage of the handover. Today government departments and legislators will have a brief reprieve from his constant railing. Even the SAR's biggest self-proclaimed 'motormouth' has to stop to take a breath but, in the famous words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the message from Cheng is, 'I'll be back'.
'They all want me to say I am afraid and that I will stop [doing the show] or that I will leave,' Cheng says of some foreign journalists.
Cheng cannot oblige, he says, because he is not leaving. He and his family are not on standby for flights out of Hong Kong; in fact, he has every intention of having his three sons (aged four, six and nine) 'grow up as Chinese'.
'Nothing's going to happen to me. If I was scared I wouldn't do the programme; I couldn't do the programme because the fear would bind me whenever I want to say something.
'They are all happy to interview me because they expect me to shoot off at the mouth and say a lot of controversial things but the answers I give don't necessarily satisfy them. I keep telling them that if I didn't have faith, I would have left.' Nor is the 50-year-old rabble-rouser going to tone down. 'I can't change, I don't know how to change,' Cheng repeats the line like a mantra over the telephone to inquiring journalists who call incessantly during our interview.