This is Shenzhen's major underground shopping mall at its bustling city center. Beneath some of the city's best hotels and busiest metro stations comes this expansive tunnel of boutiques and restaurants. It is an excellent option to escape scorching sun or unbearable rainstorm in summer.

We walked out of Shangri-La Futian straight into the entrance of this connecting underground maze; it was empty above ground voids of pedestrians on a Saturday afternoon, yet the underground was full of shoppers. We had some Hong Kong style dishes as lunch, returned to our hotel to enjoy the light show at the Horizon lounges then returned to the underground mall to dine on some noodles and had some desserts; all were relatively cheap and reasonable. You could spend the entire afternoon here, shopping, eating or having some coffee at the outdoor patio, where people were enjoying their afternoon with coffee and cigarettes along with some lively conversation. Overall, I like this underground mall; modern, clean and connected to the subway as well.