For one thing, it's very pretty [http://www.alectravelguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/hong-kong-victoria-peak.jpg] at night.
Hong Kong used to be a British colony, so English is as common of a language as Chinese. Half of it is an urban jungle with tons of neon signs, laundry racks, air conditioner exteriors, concrete canyons, mirror-faced office buildings and apartments that are sometimes 30 stories tall (aside from some townhouses in the countryside, we don't have suburbs. Just lots and lots of tall apartment buildings.), and the other half is a literal tropical jungle that's right next to the urban sprawl. There's this one hiking trail that's on the border of both the city and the wilderness; it's a cool contrast.
Much of the city's built on uneven land, so it's not a grid like New York or Los Angeles, and you also see a lot of skyscrapers jutting out from slopes and hillsides. In that sense, it's a lot like San Francisco if you replaced all the suburbs with skyscrapers, and like San Fran it also has a great transportation system. I'll be honest, the subway and airport here's magnificent.
SInce it's also a self-governing region, it's one of the only two cities in a giant, totalitarian regime with actual free speech. It's the only place in China where people can openly hate its government, and my god are there a lot of them. We still have candlelight vigils for the Tiananmen Square incident every year, and we have plenty of anti-government protests. A year ago, they tried to enact a law that will add nationalistic education to the school curriculums, but that never went through because people went berserk.
There's also the touchy subject of tourists from Mainland China traveling to Hong Kong, and get so rude and impolite while they're there. Mothers usually come over the border to give birth (being born in Hong Kong grants instant citizenship) and empty shelves of milk powder (milk powder from China is shoddy) My mom once yelled at this mainland couple for letting their kid shit on the pavement in front of their apartment, and there's tons of stories like that about other tourists. I don't think all of them are unruly, but it's still a problem.
And yes, we have the occasional Triad car chase and one-to-one kung fu rooftop battles. Also there's the occasional Kaiju attack (and a Decepticon attack, judging from set footage for Transformers 4). I literally have a rooftop view of the Shatterdome from across the harbor.
Also, we have an awesome marine theme park and Hong Kong Disneyland.
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