English in Hong Kong

As I mentioned in my last post, there's a lot of people in Hong Kong. The people here are generally really friendly and pretty short. Even though english is one of the official languages in Hong Kong there's just 1/3 of the population who can speak English. Just 200.000 have English as a mother language. The reason English actually is recognized as an official language comes from the time Hong Kong was an English colony and the population had to learn English.
From 1997 when Hong Kong got its sovereignity, the focus on english has turned weaker, and it gets weaker as time goes by. You can say that since 1997 Hong Kong has gotten more and more Chinese. It really came to me as a surprise that most people did not speak English when Hong Kong is an English speaking country. Ordering food and shopping in the tourist streets goes fine, but taking cabs is pretty difficult.