I think a lot of people don’t realise how funny Bob is. The whole day we were out exploring we were cracking jokes and having a blast. Gotta love that Dutch sense of humour!
Just subscribed to your channel I will check it out later. Love watching these urban exploring channel's. I would love to go to some of these places but would feek me out incase there's some homeless nutter wondering around.
I find all of this simply fascinating. It’s like the mall “died” but was never put to rest and years later, people are making it their home (in one manner or another). It’s walls now serve other uses but the loss is still felt. Thank you for sharing your adventures ~ they are magical!!!
theres abandoned buildings in bangkok where the whole lower floors are flooded, because they were becoming breeding grounds for mosquitos locals introduced fish into them and its truly surreal now especially as the fish are enormous.. they could probably charge foriegners to do recreational fishing in them tbh
all the homelessness in the world and all the people who cant afford to rent premises to start their own little ventures, seeing these abandoned spaces falling apart really pisses me off tbh
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I really don't have any good opinion about the Poly Corporation that owned the place. They are way too powerful to influence urban planning decisions to their favor.
Hello, I hope you are well. I was wondering what the name of this place was. If you know, it's not too much trouble. Do you think you could tell me because I want to know what happened to it and what will happen to it? In addition to why it was abandoned, since I like it. know the history of these places so please if you could give me the name I would appreciate it very much
OMG 😂 this was the best mall exploring I have seen yet. Love the Starbucks bit. Priceless. Thanks guys weird sounds and people really live in there yikes..
@@markrowe8824 well due to more modern megamall being build around, and the financial scandal of the owner resulted of everything being siezed by gov/bank. 2014 the mall is sold to new owner, 2015 a self appointed SCAM management company started collect management n reconstruction fee from the tenants, & boarded up the mall in the name of reconstruction but no work being done , so tenants all left n the mall died off !
Before when I was in China, I just love to explore these abandoned places, not fully abandoned places and go into the nature with my classmate, that really feels so good even though school is super stressful😊
Papa John's and Dairy Queen were popular when I lived in Shanghai almost a decade ago... And McDonald's was always packed. Surprisingly Subway also had a small market share too.
Some background about China Poly Group (保利), one of a biggest group that involves property development, trading, culture, entertainment and more.. The Poly Culture builds a lot shopping mall and cinema like this. Most of the malls were shutdown due to the covid-19, insufficient funds and China’s property bubble.
What a trip, you really get the sense of how poorly they put these buildings together. I have to say, I miss your old intro Bob, it had a much better feel to it and I would always turn it up a bit before your video's. Keep up the great work.
I have been to Shanghai once for two weeks to visit someone. All the time i felt like as if i was on a film set. The buildings looked nice from the outside, but from the inside they were terrible. It's a miracle that the high rises are still standing. This "film set" feeling got to me on many places there, as if everything was just staged. Everything that looks nice - isn't. Also the mentality of the people is not something i liked. I was happy when i left this place again.
Asombro y en lo particular que aún estando abandonado aún tiene energía eléctrica, gracias por compartir Bob. Ahh por cierto éste video Si incluyó subtitulado en Español.
One fun fact about foreign franchise... is that the owners are ALWAYS local people. This is not understood by 99% of world population. Whenever a boycott happens to a foreign brand, the ones who suffer the most are the LOCAL OWNERS. I remember a "funny" news regarding anti-America boycott in Indonesia. I forgot what was the root problem, I think it was about Moslem criminalization or it was about Israel. So, a bunch of native Moslem Indonesian wreaked havoc a KFC restaurant somewhere in Java. They destroyed everything. Then the OWNER came. He cried and yelled like "Please stop! Don't ruin my place. I'm a MOSLEM too!" So yeah... Basically those Moslem rioters just destroyed another Moslem properties in the name of anti America. What an irony.... It's the same with the Carrefour in China. The owners are still Chinese people!
wow great video bob really enjoyed this, and i liked that guy u was exploring with ive subbed to him now, thanks for sharing very interesting place and history xx take care bob x
@@burbex hey brin, luv anything in Japan but all over the world really luv theme park hospitals asylums shopping malls old factory buildings that sort of thing, loving yr Japan videos ATM 👍 keep up the good work 👍
That’s cuz china has stricter rules and harsher punishments for breaking the law than America and other parts of world. Heavy crime countries should follow suit with China
I Live in Halifax Nova Scotia and there isn't anything abandoned like this! I see places all over the world like abandoned towns and cities and malls and stuff and i always wanted to go explore but nothing here, it be cool to go to places abandoned with stuff left behind
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath i personally loved the aircraft carrier video, youtube keeps trying to push shorter and shorter videos but i sat through that hour and time flew by, Rest in peace tri-pod, it will be missed :(
As of October 2022 there were 15,873 Starbucks stores in the United States and 6,019 in China. As for KFC there are 3,943 stores in the United States and 7,166 in China. However, it’s estimated that there are 45,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States.
Really neat video,Bob!! 😍 I'll be doing some traveling myself next month. I'll be going to San Antonio,Tx for my son's Air Force graduation✈🇺🇸❤🤍💙 Probably riding Amtrak🚅
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Yes,so proud of him! He's going to be a Nondestructive Inspector. Meaning he's responsible for checking the aircraft for defects and sabotage or anything else unsafe.
Good one, such a waste places like that only doing a decade or two. Your compadre was cool and well knowledged. Highlight of the tour for me was the harry choo choo girl, oregato.
I wonder if the controller for the elevators has a, for a lack of a better term, Demo Mode used either for development or for demonstration and it has inexplicably been activated?
This is BaoLi Guang Chang in Wuxi. It’s located in the Jiangsu province. I lived in Wuxi for a decade and graduated from a university there. This was the mall to go to in the late 2000’s early 2010’s. It is directly across the street from where all the nightclubs and bars used to be. It was also on the opposite corner of the train station. Of course there has been a new train station built in the last decade or so and it has killed a lot of what used to happen in that area. There was a bowling alley close. I along with many classmates spent a lot of time there. In the the video when he’s walking through water on the lower level, it brings back memories. The bottom level was all sporting goods and there was a basketball court in the middle. Lots of guys would get together and play or basically show off for everyone. I have tons of pictures from when this was an active mall. There was also a really good Beijing restaurant that I would frequent. I could go on for days. Too many memories from this place.
if youve ever been in china one of the most common US chains there is KFC there were 4 with in two blocks of my condo unit when I worked there whats un common is they sell other foods like roasted bugs as well as chicken different counter but different
ther are some in europ whrer id say that have a boom and a bang behoind and i dint undersant how a base calaculate made on 3-8000€ rent fo a mal to medium store 15 years ago ...some have a fwie shops open but ..
Use the code “explore” and get a massive 60% discount for an annual Incogni plan: incogni.com/explore
Nothing makes sense in China😂
Please come to Indonesia at "abandoned hotel Bedugul Bali dan Taman festival Bali"
@@wendelreed-jd5ir😊😊
I think a lot of people don’t realise how funny Bob is. The whole day we were out exploring we were cracking jokes and having a blast. Gotta love that Dutch sense of humour!
If you think this is him being funny… Wait until you see him do karaoke. 🎤
And Bob, another amazing video. You never disappoint.
Just subscribed to your channel I will check it out later.
Love watching these urban exploring channel's. I would love to go to some of these places but would feek me out incase there's some homeless nutter wondering around.
I find all of this simply fascinating. It’s like the mall “died” but was never put to rest and years later, people are making it their home (in one manner or another). It’s walls now serve other uses but the loss is still felt. Thank you for sharing your adventures ~ they are magical!!!
Thanks Elizabeth, glad you liked it :) Much more coming up!
theres abandoned buildings in bangkok where the whole lower floors are flooded, because they were becoming breeding grounds for mosquitos locals introduced fish into them and its truly surreal now especially as the fish are enormous.. they could probably charge foriegners to do recreational fishing in them tbh
I tried to go inside in 2013 but locals didn’t let me in😟 hahaha
I love they hire a janitorial caretaker to live in a place he alone has no ability to maintain or keep secure. Crazy!
The janitor doesn’t really have any responsibility, he just has to keep people out so that they don’t have an accident in the mall.
I would bet they can only do so much and may only keep out those who don't pay bribes.
@@burbexyeah that worked great as we can see in the video
Loved hearing all the facts about malls in China. So fascinating! Loved this video. Keep up the great work and stay safe, guys!
Thanks again for the subtitles! I really appreciate the effort!
Thanks! Had a lack of time in the past weeks
all the homelessness in the world and all the people who cant afford to rent premises to start their own little ventures, seeing these abandoned spaces falling apart really pisses me off tbh
Here in Brussels there is a abandoned mall in South Brussels, it became a meeting place for " creatures of the night "...great channel.
Tom, Brussels.
Sounds good😄😎
What or who is "creatures of the night"? I assume it's not some cute wholesome living things.
Per 2022 news, this mall had been auctioned and will be redeveloped, as it is located at a very busy spot of the city.
2023.. still abandoned.. but yeah, abandoned places get demolish or reconverted fast in urban China.
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I really don't have any good opinion about the Poly Corporation that owned the place. They are way too powerful to influence urban planning decisions to their favor.
Hello, I hope you are well. I was wondering what the name of this place was. If you know, it's not too much trouble. Do you think you could tell me because I want to know what happened to it and what will happen to it? In addition to why it was abandoned, since I like it. know the history of these places so please if you could give me the name I would appreciate it very much
But why this mall closed
That segue into the advertisement was so good, I actually watched it for your effort.
OMG 😂 this was the best mall exploring I have seen yet. Love the Starbucks bit. Priceless. Thanks guys weird sounds and people really live in there yikes..
"Since the caretaker has other priorities" thats quite the understatement....
You're pretty good at finding untouched stuff, really impressive
Most places like these will be stripped of all electrical cabling and metal fittings heading off to scrap-metal yard.
I would hardly called this mall untouched.
@@peterlee9691 It seems to be in the middle of a busy city downtown and has a live-in janitor.
Nice to see Pierce Brosnan live and well in china :)
Haaaa! I never used to hear that when I was young, but now I’m older I look like James Bond!!!
无锡保利广场, 1st one stop megamall in wuxi, open 2004, shut down 31 dec 2016
So it is owned by the Poly Corporation. No surprise it is not redeveloped as soon as it should be in China.
damn only open 12 year's, here in UK we have shopping centres still going after 30 year's. 🤔🤔😨😨
@@markrowe8824 well due to more modern megamall being build around, and the financial scandal of the owner resulted of everything being siezed by gov/bank.
2014 the mall is sold to new owner, 2015 a self appointed SCAM management company started collect management n reconstruction fee from the tenants, & boarded up the mall in the name of reconstruction but no work being done , so tenants all left n the mall died off !
5:54 That was some smooth ad/sponsor transition right there 😅👏
Hahaha😂
What's the ad about?
Before when I was in China, I just love to explore these abandoned places, not fully abandoned places and go into the nature with my classmate, that really feels so good even though school is super stressful😊
Where do you live now? I was just on a trip there. Hope to go back soon
Such a Great exploring as every time. Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for watching😎🤩
thank you so much for this video Bob, I couldn't stop laughing. beyond hilarious scenes with some overall excellent content. great explore!
"Not only this guy is being monitored..." I tend to skip most ads, I'm not going to lie, but that was a fine segway to be sure!
Papa John's and Dairy Queen were popular when I lived in Shanghai almost a decade ago... And McDonald's was always packed. Surprisingly Subway also had a small market share too.
Some background about China Poly Group (保利), one of a biggest group that involves property development, trading, culture, entertainment and more.. The Poly Culture builds a lot shopping mall and cinema like this. Most of the malls were shutdown due to the covid-19, insufficient funds and China’s property bubble.
What a trip, you really get the sense of how poorly they put these buildings together. I have to say, I miss your old intro Bob, it had a much better feel to it and I would always turn it up a bit before your video's. Keep up the great work.
I have been to Shanghai once for two weeks to visit someone. All the time i felt like as if i was on a film set. The buildings looked nice from the outside, but from the inside they were terrible. It's a miracle that the high rises are still standing. This "film set" feeling got to me on many places there, as if everything was just staged. Everything that looks nice - isn't. Also the mentality of the people is not something i liked. I was happy when i left this place again.
Interesting episode ! That abandoned mall is huge.
That KFC looks nicer than the local one down the road from me that's still open 😂
I feel like I just entered a scene from "Logan's Run".... so dystopian!
I like how the glass on the stores are not broken and still intacted.
Wow, at 21.38 looks like a scenography of Train to Busan. Love it
5:39 no greater mystery when you heard unfamiliar and mysterious sound while urban exploring. 😭😭😭
Asombro y en lo particular que aún estando abandonado aún tiene energía eléctrica, gracias por compartir Bob.
Ahh por cierto éste video Si incluyó subtitulado en Español.
One fun fact about foreign franchise... is that the owners are ALWAYS local people. This is not understood by 99% of world population. Whenever a boycott happens to a foreign brand, the ones who suffer the most are the LOCAL OWNERS. I remember a "funny" news regarding anti-America boycott in Indonesia. I forgot what was the root problem, I think it was about Moslem criminalization or it was about Israel. So, a bunch of native Moslem Indonesian wreaked havoc a KFC restaurant somewhere in Java. They destroyed everything. Then the OWNER came. He cried and yelled like "Please stop! Don't ruin my place. I'm a MOSLEM too!" So yeah... Basically those Moslem rioters just destroyed another Moslem properties in the name of anti America. What an irony.... It's the same with the Carrefour in China. The owners are still Chinese people!
😂 Bob is definitely a Funny Go Lucky Chap God Bless Him Such A Great Explore Looks Like You Had Fun Interesting Large Mall😅Great explore
The Starbucks was still open! Good job finding this! ❤
Enjoying this video thanks guys for your time ❤
Thanks a lot for checking out!
wow great video bob really enjoyed this, and i liked that guy u was exploring with ive subbed to him now, thanks for sharing very interesting place and history xx take care bob x
Ah nice, Brin will be happy. Thanks for joining the premiere :)
Thanks @hahomy - what kind of urbex videos do you like the best?
@@burbex hey brin, luv anything in Japan but all over the world really luv theme park hospitals asylums shopping malls old factory buildings that sort of thing, loving yr Japan videos ATM 👍 keep up the good work 👍
Do you notice anything? Not a single graffiti or a broken pane of glass! Unthinkable in America or Western Europe!
That’s cuz china has stricter rules and harsher punishments for breaking the law than America and other parts of world.
Heavy crime countries should follow suit with China
4:45 giving a whole new meaning to taking a load off at work
Does kfc run under Yum! In every continent? It does in Australia and by the looks of it also China
I Live in Halifax Nova Scotia and there isn't anything abandoned like this! I see places all over the world like abandoned towns and cities and malls and stuff and i always wanted to go explore but nothing here, it be cool to go to places abandoned with stuff left behind
O, I live in The Netherlands, nothing abandoned here either🥹 Did you see the episode of the aircraft carrier
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath i personally loved the aircraft carrier video, youtube keeps trying to push shorter and shorter videos but i sat through that hour and time flew by, Rest in peace tri-pod, it will be missed :(
Dude your guide looks like Simon cowell
I like the starbucks parts 😂 its hilarious poor ginger breadman left behind 😢
6 years old😂😂😂😂
As of October 2022 there were 15,873 Starbucks stores in the United States and 6,019 in China. As for KFC there are 3,943 stores in the United States and 7,166 in China. However, it’s estimated that there are 45,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States.
24:55 The QR says "tap to start your online account".
The working elevator is terrifying.😮
I agree going up and down by itself creepy.
Those department store mannequins are hilarious😂😹
I was a mannequin for 10 seconds 😂
Really neat video,Bob!! 😍 I'll be doing some traveling myself next month. I'll be going to San Antonio,Tx for my son's Air Force graduation✈🇺🇸❤🤍💙 Probably riding Amtrak🚅
Air Force graduation, wow. Congratulations🤩😇enjoy your trip!
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Yes,so proud of him! He's going to be a Nondestructive Inspector. Meaning he's responsible for checking the aircraft for defects and sabotage or anything else unsafe.
@@brendakrieger7000 Cool, he gets to see some cool things too :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath please keep him in your thoughts..he's injured his knees doing marching exercises..He's on medical hold at the moment
that janitor probley has people tied up in a room somewhere
Good one, such a waste places like that only doing a decade or two.
Your compadre was cool and well knowledged. Highlight of the tour for me was the harry choo choo girl, oregato.
A very nice big mall wow, our mall closed 20 years ago, we still miss it.
Ooo, 😞 is it still standing?
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath yep empty for a year or 2 but some shops are in it again.
Nice transition to the add 😂🤣
Nice one bro, shouldve titled it "Mall Jackers"
I wonder if the controller for the elevators has a, for a lack of a better term, Demo Mode used either for development or for demonstration and it has inexplicably been activated?
Very good, thanks! :)
11:03 Quote from Oliver Goldsmith, I miss going on urban exploration.
I miss it too! Have been a prisoner of my own attic in the past months.. Luckily I go back on a trip soon😄🤣
The epic waste in China is utterly mind boggling.
Awesome video Bob
Thanks Amazon.
Surprised y’all were hungry after eating all of those Starbucks cookies. 😂
There is a stroopwafel shoppe on the second floor. How could you miss that.
Oh no😆😆 How could I?👀
You could take some portable cooking stuff and make a KFC and eat in there, it's a viral video
20:20 elevator is confused. Sounds like a Kone elevator
Amazing!
Great China video.😊
Thanks Robin 😁
The LARPing was excellent.
Around 12:30 the switch in the KFC was an Australian Clipsal switch - weird.
Ah, nice, never been to Australia so didn't know! :)
Welke tune heb je gebruikt rond de 13 minuten?
Szép volt! 👍🏻🇭🇺
That mall is bigger than my hole town wow.
2017 is not that long ago but it the mall look like it was abandoned for 20y
Yeah, I said the same.. pretty crazy right. But gives it a nice post-apocalyptic feeling!
Hi Bob! 🍻🍻
Hi Kristian! How are you? I hope you like the China series :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath of course,i like everything you filmed.
How long as it been abandoned?
Since 2017
I hear some music ,, where from? Inside mall or outside?
In the end of the video you see where we end up and where the music comes from 🎶
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath hahaha okay .. i didnt watch until the end cause distract with others anyway thanks
Intresting exploration did not know that KFC Starbucks are a thing in China thank you 😊
The establishment could be subject to a massive redevelopment project by the owner.
Which city is this in mainland China where you filmed this vlog?
它位于江苏省无锡市。
Unfortunately,, in my place we don't even have any single mall, nothing
I doubt we have such big malls either
Já deixado meu like 👍🏻😃👏 adorei..top demais mesmo 😃
nice to know the US isn't the only place hat perhaps overbuilt with their malls
We’re actually got a abandoned mall in Wuhan but sadly in 2023 or 2022 it was demolished😢
Beautiful place! From brazil.
Hello from Scotland
Hi Stacey 👋
2017 that s before covid
The escalator is dangerous to walk on also.
tnx for the video
Not many people around who've met the original Colonel Sanders, the man who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken. I have.
I'm glad you met with Brin!
We’ve been in touch for ages, waited three years in fact
@@burbex It was great to see a couple of my favorite urbex lads exploring together!
What abandoned mall is this? Like the name of it?
I'm making a list of the most dilapidated abandoned malls and this appears to be pretty dilapidated (although likely not in the top 10)
I rather have them in an “ok” condition so it’s more interesting to explore😎
This is BaoLi Guang Chang in Wuxi. It’s located in the Jiangsu province. I lived in Wuxi for a decade and graduated from a university there. This was the mall to go to in the late 2000’s early 2010’s. It is directly across the street from where all the nightclubs and bars used to be. It was also on the opposite corner of the train station. Of course there has been a new train station built in the last decade or so and it has killed a lot of what used to happen in that area. There was a bowling alley close. I along with many classmates spent a lot of time there. In the the video when he’s walking through water on the lower level, it brings back memories. The bottom level was all sporting goods and there was a basketball court in the middle. Lots of guys would get together and play or basically show off for everyone. I have tons of pictures from when this was an active mall. There was also a really good Beijing restaurant that I would frequent. I could go on for days. Too many memories from this place.
if youve ever been in china one of the most common US chains there is KFC there were 4 with in two blocks of my condo unit when I worked there whats un common is they sell other foods like roasted bugs as well as chicken different counter but different
Beautiful video
🙏 thanks
The KFC was fascinating. All those years later.
Hi😊
😮perfect place to grow weed free electricity abandoned lots of rooms and shutters 😮
fried chicken and some coffe creme late ... 💡
Yes! Coming 😂👌Thanks for checking!
ther are some in europ whrer id say that have a boom and a bang behoind and i dint undersant how a base calaculate made on 3-8000€ rent fo a mal to medium store 15 years ago ...some have a fwie shops open but ..
I want to know, where is that place?
Check comment section
江蘇無錫市
So different seeing Brin from a 3rd person perspective.
Yeah, viewers don’t normally get to see my butt
Janitor got caught on 4k 😂
I live in the neighboring town of KFC’s first restaurant here in Kentucky.
deze is ook weer supervet!!!
Hahahaha! Porn is very illegal there! 😂
Can’t believe the goldfish are still alive! 😮
Thanks Bob 😎👍
Thanks! It was a fun explore. Could try some more malls when I go back
Hi bro Please old video's music name 😢