The Westwood — Local services in Hong Kong

A rather noisy and perpetually renovating shopping mall. Mainly home to a number of neighborhood eateries (McDonald's on the ground floor is a fixture, along with a chain bakery), toy shops with plastic gadgets and tutoring classes for kids of all sizes, in addition to a Wellcome supermarket on top. There are at least three other similarly comprised, rather antique neighborhood malls around the area, and this is one of the better ones mostly because of the bookstore on the second floor which has friendly staff and nice selection of children's books. Everything in the mall is rather indifferently maintained; some recent renovation which came into effect in Feb 2021 included newer, brighter lighting, which is a vast improvement over the dark florescent lighting of...

It has quite a few eating joints. My favourites are Panash Bakery and of course Mc D.. on the first floor you can shop apparel and shoes.. actually only one shop for apparel which is Baleno, and a couple of shops for shoes like dr. Kong, etc.. on the second floor is a book shop, a music shop and a few other shops.. they have a game arcade as well on the top floor.. And a supermarket as well.. so basically its a family place..you'll find something for all the...

Decent shop offerings inside the mall itself with a sizeable grocery store in the top floor.

HOWEVER, getting to the mall itself is very escalator-dependent as it is surrounded by grounds which are on much higher elevation. And the escalator never works.

Throughout my three times visiting the mall, the escalator had always been broken, hence getting in/out of the mall requires climbing up 5-6 levels worth of stairs. Outrageously terrible...