An invitation into the unknown

Liang Shihui made her first trip to Hong Kong during the May Day holiday. In fact, it was the first trip outside the Chinese mainland for the 26-year-old native of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province.

A friend who lives in the city invited her to stay, so Liang spent four days exploring popular tourist haunts such as Causeway Bay, Central and Tsim Sha Tsui.

However, she was most impressed by Kennedy Town, which was previously a backwater but is now becoming one of the city's residential hotspots. As she walked around the condos and villas, Liang felt herself falling in love with the district in the west of Hong Kong Island because its slower pace and relatively small number of people struck her as different from the rest of the city.