Shopping Mall Experiences in Klang Valley

[chkang]

Paradigm Mall - Built new roads to support the traffic to enhance the shopping experience and business

[kopihk]

Originally Posted by chkang

Paradigm Mall - Great Restroom/toilet

Shopping Malls rating based on toilet decency (very essential to ladies) and decor:

Division A
Starhill
The Gardens
Pavilion
KL Suria
Sunway Pyramid
Paradigm

Division B
Tropicana City
The Curve
SS2 Mall
Mid-Valley
IPC/Ikea

Division C
One Utama
Sungai Wang
Lot 10
IOI Mall

[chkang]

Floor Plans of Paradigm Mall









More to come...

[chkang]

No paradigm shift just more floor plan of Paradigm Mall

[patchay]

Some comments from Paradigm thread:

Originally Posted by D_Y2k.2^

Just got back as well. This mall turns out better than expected with good tenant mix. 2 remarks I've to say though, carpark is pretty confusing and certain F&B seems abit out of place

Originally Posted by patchay

I went to the Paradigm today for the first time.

Really crowded.

Carpark was dusty.

Over 80% of stores are opened but most of the big tenants - Cinema, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, ZARA, etc are not opened yet.

Feel that the mall is a good compact version of 1 Utama, but abit too small for the crowd. The centre court was really small.

People were lining up at all the F&B stores till the walkways were blocked.

[chkang]

Originally Posted by patchay

Some comments from Paradigm thread:

It is true that Paradigm Mall is very dusty at the moment, just like the old wing of One Utama which is now under construction of its TGV cinemas. I guess all new mall would be dusty until 98% of its tenanats moved in.

The car park is quite good actually. It is spacious and plenty. Direction signage, perhaps, can improve further.

It is like a 45% One Utama, except it is more upbeat, trendy, better decor, higher end feeling. I have better shopping mood here even when it is still dusty.

By the way, the toilet is superb. But you have to wait for the lifts, they are a little slow.

[chkang]

Malls Rating based on educational and sports:


1. KL Suria (Science Exhibition by Petronas, Philharmonic Hall, Music Fountain, Bookstore that selling Japanese, Chines, English and Malay books with good selections, Exhibition Hall, state of the arts medical clinic)

2. One Utama (Secret Garden, BookCrossing (not sure it still exists), bowling, football field, diving pool, wall climbing)

3. Sunway Pyramid (Ice rink, water theme-park)

4. The Curve/IPC ( KidZania, Ikea (furniture arrangement concept that helps Malaysians upgrading their taste of home decor))

5. The mines (Lake boat trip seeing wild animals, Exhibition Hall)

Please recommend... (to be updated)

[patchay]

Reposting here:


This is a suburban mall near my home, and according to Forbes' 20 largest Shopping Malls in the World (2012 Ranking based on Gross Leasable Area):


1 Utama Shopping Mall --> 1st largest in Malaysia, 2nd largest in Southeast Asia, 4th largest in the World
Due to rapid mall expansions, Malaysia now has 3 prominent malls in the top 10 largest shopping malls in the world. But we remained humble...


1 Utama, Petaling Jaya City, Selangor State, Malaysia - 5.0 million sq ft - 700+ tenants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlQSJlqL23g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Utama

Awards:
- World's Best Shopping Mall at the Retail World Excellence Awards 2006/07






33 major tenants out of 700+ are:
- AEON of Japan,
- Isetan of Japan,



- TANGS (Singapore),
- Parkson of Malaysia (also the largest departmental store brand in China),
- 13-screen Golden Screen Cinemas (Robert Kuok's),
- 12-screen TGV Cinemas with IMAX (opening soon in mid-2012),
- Cold Storage (Dairy Farm Group/Jardine Martheson),
- MPH Bookstore,
- Daiso of Japan,
- UNIQLO of Japan (2-storey),
- U-Bowl Bowling Centre,
- Celebrity Fitness gym,
- XZQT: The Executive Home Store (Singapore),
- Toys 'R' Us,
- Camp5 (Asia's largest indoor rock-climbing centre),



- Popular Bookstore (Singapore),
- Best DENKI of Japan,
- Live It Up!
- Effective Herbs,
- Marks & Spencer,



- Padini Concept Store,
- BRANDS Outlet,
- VOIR Fashion Gallery,
- Forever 21,
- Food Republic (Singapore),
- NEWAY Karaoke Box of Hong Kong,
- Candylicious (Singapore),

image hosted on flickr


- Home Fix D.I.Y.,
- Hokkaido Ichiba,
- Nichii,
- F.O.S. Superstore (facelifted, opening soon),
- Rooftop sports center: It's a Hit! Battling Cages and Padang Futsal Courts,
- Home's Harmony





Examples of flagship stores in 1 Utama:
- A/X By Armani Exchange,
- Bebe,
- Bershka,
- Brooks Brothers,
- Coach,
- Chanel,
- Forever 21,
- Guy Laroche,
- Pull & Bear,
- Oroton,



- Bimba & Lola,
- Massimo Dutti,
- ZARA,
- FCUK French Connection,
- Shu Uemura,
- Springfield: Man & Woman (opening soon),
- Michael Kors (opening soon),
- Victoria's Secret (opening soon)

image hosted on flickr







Opened in April 2012:

1 Utama Shopping Mall's Secret Garden - at 30,000 sq ft it is now one of the world's largest rooftop garden

[chkang]

I have brought a number of friends from Hong Kong and Singapore to dine in One Utama as I live in Bandar Utama. They are not impressed at all about 1U, mainly because of the floor plan and decor and smelly restrooms. Fortunately we have Pavilion, Starhill, and KL Suria, and The Gardens to make Klang Valley dwellers proud, so I normally would go with friends from overseas to these malls.

Having said these, my local friends normally enjoy 1U and probably they are not looking for cleaner, upbeat, and trendy ambience. My daughter likes 1U because she still can find somethings inexpensive to buy as she just graduated from graduate school and yet to work in Hong Kong.

[kopihk]

I got my hair cut at Quick Cut, Paradigm Mall, for RM16. It was a steal as it was buy one get one free. The second hair cut can be done before June 30, 2012. However, do not loose the coupon as the store only honor the promise if you have the coupon.

[chkang]

Only place you can get free parking is Tesco at the Curve/IPC/e@the curve/Tesco shopping malls, but you have to spend a few ringgits buying just something at Tesco to get your parking free. Present your parking card to the cashier when you make your payment to enjoy the advantage. Only 3 hours free.


by ishmel
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/63488795

[daynielizham]

wow... i dont know 1Utama so big.....
my 1st impression.... 1Utama > Another LowYat.

[chkang]

Originally Posted by chkang

Only place you can get free parking is Tesco at the Curve/IPC/e@the curve/Tesco shopping malls, but you have to spend a few ringgits buying just something at Tesco to get your parking free. Present your parking card to the cashier when you make your payment to enjoy the advantage. Only 3 hours free.


by ishmel
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/63488795

By the way IPC/Ikea has similar offer for parking, only that Ikea's products may not be truly what you need like daily necessity such as salt, rice, sugar, cooking oil, vinegar from Tesco.

[chkang]

Originally Posted by daynielizham

wow... i dont know 1Utama so big.....
my 1st impression.... 1Utama > Another LowYat.

One Utama is much better than Low Yat but far less than Pavilion or KL Suria. They are of different status quo. Pavilion and KL Suria are of highest international standard while One Utama is of local community standard. And Low Yat is for the handphone and computer related products.

[chkang]

Quote:
Originally Posted by dengilo
How many hypermarkets and malls are there along the LDP from end to end?
I came back to Damansara eight year ago, so I'm not entirely sure of the situation. I'll try listing the shopping malls, big and small, along the LDP:

IOI Mall
Sunway Pyramid
Giant Mall
Paradigm Mall
SS2 Mall
Tropicana City
Atria (redeveloped from formerly Atrium, to be open soon)
One Utama
The Curve
e@the Curve
KidZania
IPC and Ikea
The Courts
Tesco Mall
Carrefour Mall? (near Damansara Sunway)

[chkang]

Map and Direction to Paradigm Mall
Self-explanatory

[chkang]

Malls Rating based on educational and sports:


1. KL Suria (Science Exhibition by Petronas, state of the arts Philharmonic Hall, Music Fountain, Bookstore that selling Japanese, Chinese, English and Malay books with good selections, Exhibition Hall, state of the arts medical clinic)

2. One Utama (600+ species tropical plants Secret Garden, BookCrossing (uncertain if it still exists as it may not work in this selfish Malaysia), bowling, football field, diving pool, wall/rock climbing)

3. Sunway Pyramid (Water theme-park, ice rink)

4. The Curve/IPC ( KidZania AirAsia theme park, Ikea (furniture arrangement concept that helps Malaysians upgrading their taste of home decor))

5. The mines (Lake boat trip seeing wild animals, Exhibition Hall)

Please recommend... (to be updated)

[chkang]

image hosted on flickr


I had a bad experience with Good Evening Bangkok (One Utama) last time when I was host to my relatives from Singapore. The staff wasn't well trained and couldn't communicate well in English. If you do not speak Malay well, I don't recommend it to you.

[dengilo]

I suspect its run by a same company thats have a few branches with different names,Overpriced and the food sucks big time!The staff are mostly myanmar not malay!Eating out lately can be a very unpleasant experience when from the front to the kitchen operated by" aliens "that sometimes have no clue what they doing

[chkang]

Originally Posted by dengilo

I suspect its run by a same company thats have a few branches with different names,Overpriced and the food sucks big time!The staff are mostly myanmar not malay!Eating out lately can be a very unpleasant experience when from the front to the kitchen operated by" aliens "that sometimes have no clue what they doing

This one is in the One Utama. The restaurant has been there since at least 2004 when I first came back from Hong Kong. My family used to dine there until they cut cost by using many foreign experts(non-Thai).