Trivia question: In which city can you find Chancery Lane, Queen Victoria Street and London Lane? In Hong Kong, of course.
Naysayers believed all things British would be wiped out after the 1997 handover. They said streets would be renamed with prosaic communist bloc titles such as Street No12; the few colonial buildings that remained would be razed; and sites named after former governors and colonial officials would all disappear.
British rule may have sailed off with the Britannia into the rain-sodden midnight of July 1, 1997, but now, nine years later, most of the landmarks that remind us of Hong Kong's colonial past have remained and there seems to be no urgency to obliterate them.
It even took the People's Liberation Army five years to rename its headquarters at the former Prince of Wales barracks in Central.
Last weekend, hundreds of expatriates - mostly British - filed into St John's Cathedral in Central to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday. After some initial wrangling between the organiser, the Royal Over-Seas League, and church officials, the British national anthem, God Save the Queen, was played in the church for the first time since the handover.
The debate over the anthem had played itself out in public prior to the event and raised the question, will the British ever let go?
