Mystery Babylon@erosdiscordia@onycha.monster
I do wanna point out, all the mall shots that are likely to appear in the next few weeks and months aren't me shopping. The main string of malls on Sukhumvit are usually steps from various major SkyTrain stations. Plus they have cheap food courts.
Before I got to Bangkok, I read about the food courts and I was like, why the fuck would you go to a mall just to eat at the food court?
But it's not like America, where getting to a mall is kind of an effort, and so the food there is a bit overpriced. Here, you can walk half a mile down the main road while inside a long chain of malls, and literally hundreds of restaurants and food stalls within them are in competition to be both cheap and actually good food.
Better know exactly what you're trying to find, though. Because just wandering in to any one of these places is an invitation to get seriously lost. I'd say the average American mall is any one of the floors in these buildings. And there are a lot of floors. And a lot of buildings.
Mystery Babylon@erosdiscordia@onycha.monster
Oh, and I gotta say one more thing to explain the malls here.
Don't visualize the typical American mall, with like 3-4 anchor department stores and a bunch of little places, and maybe a movie theater, and the whole thing has that tenuous, trying-to-stay-afloat tenseness.
Try to mentally combine a metro station, the Mall Of America, a flea market, the food avenue of a carnival, a corporate office block, a midrange hotel, and throw in something special like an ice rink or a bowling alley. And pack it full of people of all races and nationalities. And phone cases, soooo many phone cases.