Originally Posted by
woodwoodwood
Is pretty much the same speed from personal experience, also, they only check your boarding pass there so I don't think there is a way to tell if you are really a HK resident. I am a HK resident but I travel with my British passport.
It doesn't seem that it matters - people are free to line up wherever. Probably the brainchild of a government bureaucrat with too much time on their hands!