Licensing slip up: Hong Kong water slide visitors turned away as event fails to open on time | South China Morning PostRoaming water park enterprise Slide the City, which installed the 10m-tall slide among other funfair inspired food and game stalls on the harbourfront, announced at 9am, the scheduled opening time, on Wednesday that ticket-holders would have to wait for further “fine-tuning” to be carried out and approval from the government’s Food and Environmental Health Department.