Dream Mall - Kaohsiung

The Dream Mall is literally out of this world just as its name suggests. It is kind of like the Taiwanese version of the King of Prussia Mall for those of you who have been there before.

Dream Mall is located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (southern part of Taiwan and the second largest city). It is the largest shopping mall in Taiwan and the largest in East Asia. It is built and operated by Tungcheng Development Corporation a subsidiary of Uni-President Enterprises Corporation. It opened on May 12, 2007, and contains restaurants, movie theater, gym, and entertainment including a rooftop amusement park, and of course, many, many, many stores to shop in. The rooftop amusement park at Dream Mall is home to the Kaohsiung Eye ferris wheel.

When I was in Kaohsiung, we took the underground railway to the closest stop near Dream Mall. From there, there are shuttle buses every 10 minutes to take you to the Dream Mall.

The place is ridiculously enormous with twelve floors. You could spend your whole day shopping at Dream Mall and still not finish. I think my cousins and I nearly got lost in the mall due to the immensity of it all!

Each floor has its own theme. The fifth floor is for things related to children's goods.  The sixth floor is for fitness and outdoor recreation. One of the lower floors is all brand name goods. And if memory serves me right, one of the floors is dedicated to young adults/teenagers. 

The food court was especially large with a variety of foods to chose from. When I went, I didn't buy too many things because this particular mall is an upscale, first-class type of mall. Majority of the stores were high-end stores like Gucci, Prada, Guess, and a lot of other brand names I have never heard of. Many stores were European fashion stores. So to actually go to shop there is very expensive, but it is fun to see and experience. 

That isn't to say, however, that there are not any stores where middle class patrons cannot shop at, you just have to go/find to the right section of the mall (though even then, I still didn't buy anything >.<).

There are many unique stores and restaurants inside the mall that I would recommend seeing. I know there was this one store that was dimly lit and had rows of shoe racks that lit up in white. And get this, the racks would move left and right! It was very cool!