China Embraces Mall Slide Culture

Image: PHOTO: A huge mall slide comes to Chongqing, China. (Photo via Flickr/ xiaowei Zhao) (Flickr/xiaowei Zhao)
Image: PHOTO: A huge mall slide comes to Chongqing, China. (Photo via Flickr/ xiaowei Zhao) (Flickr/xiaowei Zhao)
Gabe Zaldivar
by Gabe Zaldivar
Last updated: 4:00 PM ET, Mon February 20, 2017

You can submit to the normal malaise of consumer boredom at a regular mall, or you can take the plunge into a ridiculous slide housed at this Chinese shopping center.

The Daily Mail introduces us to the silliest way to hit the ground floor of a mall in the world: an elaborate slide at a Chongqing center that opened on February 15.

Now, we don't have a flight planned for the region just yet, so the myriad images found on social media will have to suffice for the moment.

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This will take you to the ground floor thanks to 160 feet of swirling entertainment. It certainly beats that stinky elevator that usually adorns malls worldwide.

As The Daily Mail offers, this isn't the only game in town-well, country. Visitors to the Pudong area of Shanghai can make their way to the Pujian outlet of Printemps Department Store and find a five-story example of human ingenuity.

According to the report, the above opened in March and is the best thing to happen to malls since the advent of the food court.

It's clear that China wants to take the lead in slides found in shopping malls, which is admirable and we stand behind them in this amazing endeavor.


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