Spiderman in Balloons

A vast new shopping mall is opening up here in Nanchang. The Wanda Plaza is located in Honggutan district and really is huge. It has a department store, many many restaurants (including lots of overseas chains such as MacDs, KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Dairy Queen, Haagen Das), lots of shops including H&M, Zara, UniQlo, Tommy Hilfiger, CK etc etc.
It is easily a match for anything I've seen in the west, in Japan, HK, Shanghai etc.

Although I personally prefer traditional city centres to malls I am impressed with this place and will be shopping there for a number of reasons including: the air-con which will make shopping in Nanchang's summer heat a pleasure rather than a torture, it is likely to be clean (there's quite a few litterbugs in NC and the city centre streets are not the cleanest of places), there'll be no traffic (cars, e-bikes, mopeds etc) to dodge.

The mall also has a multi-screen Imax 3D cinema - and I'm guessing that's the reason for the balloon spidey, as the new Spiderman film is just being released here in China

No doubt I'll be posting a few more blips of this place over the coming weeks

(By Andy Meek)