And do not miss the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden, Flower Market Road or the Hong Kong skyline view from Inakaya restaurant on the 101st floor of the International Commerce Centre (acrophobics need not apply).

BBC: Honeymoons for urbanites

That's not the attitude that has created Hong Kong's skyline of gleaming towers, but Khan represents the green shoots emerging in Hong Kong and among the city's profit-hungry property developers.

CNN: Can Hong Kong build bigger, higher, greener?

Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.

ECONOMIST: Clouds over Hong Kong