Malls

 Malls are malls .

Early in 2006 when I landed in UAE i used to go often to nearby Al Ain mall spend long hours no not in shopping i would go for a film have some coffee and cinammon buy a fancy watch and above all just people watch  .

Slowly malls were visited only with purpose .

Shopping mostly in the many lulu malls and Hypermarts in Al ain more than 6

 I think some as big as one in Ernakulam .

Bawadi mall was a huge mall started on one end of Al Ain mall.

Both were huge but Al Ain mall with its ice rink and chugging toy train was more homely Bawadi mall was just too big .

When i moved into a huge housing complex for doctors in Mercaniya there was an Al ain society mall right in front .

The malls in Ajman where my wife worked post 2016 were nice too .

The malls in Dubai were just extraordinary .

There were city centers like The Deira city center where once i drove on a friday morning from the downtown 5 star i was staying for attending a conference but got confused on returning back and going through half of Dubai searching for the right exit back to my hotel though i could see it till my Guisais cousin saved me !

Ajman too had a city center .

There were malls known more for the companies running them like Jimie mall in Al ain was more known as Carrefour the French walmart 

Most of these were huge with massive multiplexes and food courts 

The outlet mall before one entered Dubai was a great placefor shopping bargains .

Of course Dubai mall was the mother of all malls and Lulu mall in Cochin in  small way resembles it albeit a small version of it 😁

I had stayed in 84th floor of Adress Downtown when Burj khalifa and Dubai mall were being completed .

The Mall of emirates and Ibn batuta were nice second one more of a theme mall

Festival city Midrif mall Mercato mall Times sqaure mall the pyramid shaped Wafi mall .

Kuala lumpur and Singapore had great malls too most connected to metro .

Dubai mall too has an Ac corridor of 1 km from its metro station in Sheikh zayed road to it and both mall of emirates and ibn batuta were connected directly to metro station .

In Chennai the phoenix and express malls are nice .

Brunei too has the Gadong mall the Huaho group of malls Times sqaure and Airport malls etc