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| - Pacific mall, who hasn't been here? Honestly. This use to be my go to for bootleg DVDs and Bubbletease. The now non-existent arcade upstairs, yup, I'm old.
With a parking lot reminiscent to rush hour in China, parking can be a task in its own. As Kris U mentioned, this parking lot can be compared to the Bermuda Triangle. This is absolutely no place for an amateur driver (because it's full of amateur drivers). Get it? Good.
Moving along. Presuming you've never been to pacific mall before, you will enter via one of the 19 entrances and be absolutely sucker punched in the face with an overwhelming smell of noodles, bubbletea, waffles and dim sum. But it does become tolerable after a few seconds.
Browsing around the mall, you will find that their are several types of businesses, such as the clothing stores, imported food stores and about 3000 cell phone case stores. Some legit, some not so much. BUT who doesn't love a good deal right?
The place is pretty clean, I always see janitors walking around and cleaning. Security is everywhere too, mostly around centre court. Upstairs is food food and food. Some other shops upstairs as well.
As a few other users of Yelp have mentioned, some shops can be extremely, blatantly racist. I've experienced it several times, so my Asian buddy now accompanies me every time I go. Call me a liar if you'd like, but I've saved hundred'$ of dollars with him standing beside me negotiating in Cantonese. Also bring cash. You may as well write down your banking information on a piece of paper with your pin if you decide to use plastic here.
Anyways, not what it use to be. A lot of the fake stuff isn't as easily accessible anymore, bootleg DVDs are a thing of the past.. There's a couple automotive stores, bubble tea and easily a million cell phone cases. Besides that and the decent food court, there really isn't much left of this gigantic mall.
2/5 for me!
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