For the ultimate show-stopping view, stand at the harbour edge in Tsim Sha Tsui and take in Hong Kong Island's skyscrapers' gradient-defying march up steep jungle slopes.
Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.