Whatever America does, China can do bigger.
Take for instance shopping.
The Luosiwan Shopping Center in Kunming is the biggest shopping center in Asia.
It’s is like Mall of America on steroids.
Make that six mall of Americas.
Luoiswan (pronounced lo-swan) has space for 23,000 shops, more than 15,000 are already ringing up sales. The average flow of visitors to Luosiwan International Trade City (the official name) is 300,000 a day.
That’s more than Disneyworld’s foot traffic, which is a mere 40,739 people, or 81,548 mickey mouse ears a day
And Disneyworld has people movers.
However, Luosiwan does have busses that drive right through it.
I tried snapping a few photos, but like the Alps or Trash Island, you can’t really appreciate the enormity of it.
Along with the size, it’s the vairety of Luosiwan that knocks your socks off
(which, more likely than not, were socks made somewhere in behind the great wall).
But at Luoiswan, it’s not just what you sell, but the random combos.
It’s as if the shop owners picked an item from column a and column b from a chinese menu.
Chopsticks and hangers.
Mens briefs and kitchn towels.
Holiday decorations and umbrellas.
Then there is the rubberband man, an aisle away from to the Mannequin Land, the toothbrush man, Tape is Us, and watchland.
If they make it, you can find it at Luosiwan,
Except of course, for a map of the place in english.
And a box cheese grater.