Harbin Ice Festival - How is a Cup of Hot Coffee?

The question should be more appropriately rephrased:
"How much is a cup of hot coffee, after 45minutes exposure to minus 15degC, in a captive arena as the Ice Festival?"

I asked our Harbin driver how many times he had visited the Ice Festival, if he had taken his 10yr old there yet:
"First time this year",
"Why???",
"Too cold"

90% of New Yorkers never visited the Statue of Liberty. I met an advertising guy last month who was born and raised in XiAn, but he had never visited the Terracotta Warriors in Xian.

It was 12deg below zero when we got there, but it did feel cold with 10knot wind swept over frozen Songhua River. So much so we had to 'break the ice' by taking a warm-up break inside a Nescafe pavillon for hot chocolate and coffee.

Price for a hot drink: Y30. A steal in a place like this!

I recall a cup of coffee inside Guangzhou airport going for Y50, and that was 5 years ago!

Hot drinks seem appropriate at such a venue with such a temperature, but there was 'Harbin Beer' and ' Coca Cola' pavillions too. I was told British drink warm beer, my Father in law too, but warm Coke? Or were they really chilled?

I never bothered to ask.