Are there China malls in America?

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1. Is that where you can buy goods made in China? Because that’s every mall.

2. What’s a China mall?

3. Do you mean items intended for Chinese speaking people? Like Chinese language bookstore, Chinese language beauty products?

4. What is a China mall?

   There are only two possibilities that come to mind. Generic malls that are funded by Chinese investors and indoor shopping malls specifically catered to the Asian diaspora.

   >indoor shopping malls specifically catered to the Asian diaspora

   Imo this is pretty much non-existent in the US. There are indoor big stores that have multiple components to it. Think part store, part food court, part small shops. Canada though, at least in Vancouver and Richmond, have these.

   Shopping malls that are invested by Chinese investors, are a thing but its not something noteworthy to call it a “China mall”. It’s just a normal mall with **some** funding that happens to be sourced from China.

5. There are one or two in New York City, but that’s about it. And even those are very limited in selection compared to what you’d find in cities like Johnasburg.

6. We call them WalMart

7. What is a China mall?

8. Not entirely sure what you mean by China mall, but something like the Santa Anita Mall in Arcadia (near LA) *might* be an example? It’s a mall that has a lot of Chinese and Asian stores/restaurants, but not exclusively. Like they also have American stores, but because Arcadia is heavily Asian-populated, the mall caters to the community there.

9. Here is China Mall in Johannesburg South Africa

   [https://youtu.be/ozOSGrxV3RA?t=295](https://youtu.be/ozOSGrxV3RA?t=295)

   basically everything “Made in China”

10. Why the hell would we need a mall full of Chinese stuff?

11. I’m not totally sure what they are, but it sounds like a mall I went to recently in Queens in NYC. Don’t remember the name, but it was basically just a mall that catered to Chinese culture and services

12. Many cities have “China Towns” in which a large number of the residents are of a Chinese heritage and you could probably get by speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. There are often Chinese groceries and restaurants.

    In the San Jose area where I lived 20 years ago there are a couple of strip malls where all the signage and restaurants are in Chinese script and everyone speaks Chinese. They are often a great place to get Dim Sum and bubble tea. But that’s the only place I’ve seen them.

    China Towns are pretty common in big cities. Chinese malls are pretty rare and only in a couple places I’ve seen in areas outside of cities but with a large Chinese immigrant population.

13. I’ve never heard of malls or shops specifically where everything sold there is made in China, but I do know USA imports a lot of goods from China and many large cities in the US *eg* Philadelphia, San Francisco, NYC have Chinatowns where immigrants from east Asian countries have settled in appreciable concentrations, and even in many suburbs and smaller towns there are Asian supermarkets such as H-Mart.

14. There’s Chinese grocery stores.

15. Generally, malls here were built a few decades ago, so they were not built with Chinese investment.

    That said, malls are not doing well, and foreign companies are allowed to buy them. A company from Turkey bought a mall around here and built an aquarium to try to save it. I don’t think Chinese companies have been doing this to a large extent.

    But, as to your larger … unasked question… some people have expressed alarm that Chinese business entities were trying to buy property near Military bases.

    If that is just hysteria or true, I don’t know.

16. Do you mean Chinatowns? Major cities have them but they aren’t in every city.

    There are a variety of Asian grocery stores and maybe other import shops pretty much anywhere where Asian people may live.

17. There’s an Asia Mall that just opened in the Minneapolis suburbs. It’s not exclusively Chinese (in fact, I think much of it is southeast Asian), but it is exclusively Asian foods and products.

18. I don’t believe we have anything like that, but it sounds pretty neat. I’d be interested in checking one out.

    What we do have is international grocery stores like Jungle Jims. They have different areas for various nationalities. It’s pretty neat to see.

19. No, we don’t have specific chinese malls that sell chinese stuff.

20. Many cities have a section known as “China Town” where heavy concentrations of Chinese immigrants live and the stores there sell imported Chinese products.

21. We have one in the Seattle area with a hilariously bad name called [Great Wall shopping mall](http://www.greatwallmall.com/) it’s not exclusively Chinese though, we also have a lot of Japanese and Korean stores in the region.

22. There’s Asian grocery stores. Occasionally they’ll have an Asian book store or general store (like a don kihote) attached. That was when I was in seattle

23. There’s a place in Salt Lake City called Chinatown Supermarket. It’s got restaurants and little shops with a supermarket. It’s not really what I would call a mall though.