Shenzhen's Window of the World offers landmarks, dinosaurs and time to ponder

"Do all the Fusion supermarkets in Hong Kong play the same music and is it just the one melody?" my friend F asks, apropos of nothing, as we hurtle past the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids of Giza and St Mark's Square.

I have asked myself the same question, more than once.

"And can you hum it?" he continues. Unfortunately, I can. Because the two Fusions I visit regularly, in Mui Wo and Tung Chung, play the same melody day and night, on a never-ending loop.

It must be the monorail thing on which we are cruising at a leisurely speed at tree-canopy height around Window of the World in Shenzhen that has made F think of Fusion's muzak.

This theme park, charging a hefty 180 yuan (HK$218) admittance, takes you around the world, past Hawaiian huts, Mount Rushmore and (inexplicably) dinosaurs that are roaring - despite scientists saying they lacked the necessary vocal chords to do so - in about an hour-and-a-half's brisk walk.