Some tips: hop on the scenic Star Ferry between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, instead of taking the underground MTR.

BBC: Honeymoons for urbanites

Lau was one of the last holdouts at Rennie's Mill, a village in Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula that was home to hundreds of ex-soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army and their families.

CNN: The Lowering of the Flag

The late street artist Tsang Tsou-choi, a welfare-receiving pariah, was initially dismissed as crazy for plastering the Kowloon peninsula of Hong Kong with rambling graffiti in which he declared his claims to the ruling class.

BBC: Calligraphic graffiti in Hong Kong