After hearing of this place as the butt of many jokes from Russel Peters, I have finally come to witness Pacific Mall.
Personally I really don't get what the big deal is.
This isn't a "mall" in the North American sense. This is more like a middle to low end shopping center in Hong Kong. No real stores in the shopping mall sense but lots of cubicle like stalls for stores and shops. Looking at those stalls does bring me back to Hong Kong. The stores are a mixture of bootleg DVDs, FOB-tastic clothing, Asian jewelery, dry goods, house goods, boba and even a froyo shop . Basically this a Chinatown (minus groceries/butchers/fish-mongers) contained in one building. In California, this would be one gigantic strip mall, like the one by Pacific Commons in Fremont or that big mall in Milpitas.
But it is one building because walking outside would not be fun in the winter months here in Ontario.