Chinchwad Ad lab Mall
2008 May 26
After 8 months of stay @ Wakad , I discoverd Adlabs Mall. This place you can reach by turning left from Chapekar Chowk and driving approx 3km towards Old Mumbai Pune Highway. After reaching the highway one has to drrive half a km and then take a U turn to comeback.
The Mall is worth the drive of approx 6km from Dange Chowk. Reaching here the following things catch your attention :
- MacDonalds : The crowd all around this joint immediately puts you at ease. You say, THank God its here and I am not at some god forsaken small town. You dont miss having relocated from Delhi or Noida
- The Levi’s store : This is adequately stored and staffed has good mannequins You can shope for your Jean and Tees. A good store over all
- The Big Bajaar : The mother of all stores is avaialble here in probably one of its biggest avatars . A cool place to shop for monthly groceries and household items. It also has a good variety of fast food stalls at its exit doors for Pani puri, Chaat, Corn etc
- The Cross words : A wide spacious Cross word can take care of almost almost all books of non academic interests.
- Yo China : THis is for all the people with craving for azino moto. This serves dimsums for Rs 55 a plate. This is disappointing considering that in Delih Momos are avaialble for Rs 10 -20 /plate.
- Parking : It has hude covered underground parking and the best part is : its FREE till date.
- Loot mart : THis is a cool casuals shope where you get stufff at good bargain.
- Electronics : ho,e appliances are galore @ Krome and Dass. THey give good bargains on durables.
- South Indian : Authentic chain ” Sankalp ” has a shop here. THey are Guiness holders for biggest dosa ever.
- Adlabs Multiplex : Last but not the least This has probably 5 screens and hosts latest Bolly/Holly wood pot boilers along with the current Marathi hotties.
This discovery has added a lot of Zing to life in Wakad, No more do I have to run to Aundh for Shopping needs. This is a cool hangout and can be made hotter by :
- Putting some really hot street food.
- Some street shops selling good casual clothes.
- Some street side magazine shops.
- Some handicraft selling vendors.
- A performing LIVE band
Hi Arun – I am not quite sure why we would want the following -
1. Putting some really hot street food – Is it healthy or can it be made healthy when we know the kind of people who will sell these foods and when we also know there would vehicles pumping Carbon Monoxide and what not (specially with the adultrated fues) onto the food?
2. Some street shops selling good casual clothes – Don’t you think we need to move towards more organized way of shopping and try to avoid street shopping as that creates a lot of chaos on the road and is unmanaged comparatively.
3. A performing LIVE Band is probably an idea only when it does not create a chaos, I am sure you are thinking of it just like we have the Lambada in the Pune Central Mall.
Your observation are very good and puts me into rethinking.
1. WHO advisory on travel [citation needed] mentions that people visiting South Asia can eat street food following certain guidelines. Example , eat those foods which a lot of local population is eating( This ensures that you wont get stale or rotten stuffand the vendor is trusted by lot locals as not to create gastro diseases) , see that its boiling hot( this ensures that germs are killed), etc. There was a suggestion in Delhi to give licenses to all street food vendors and ensure that every month they go for FFI check ( Free from infection. This can institutionsalize this. Anil Ambani when once asked about his favorite cuisine has promptly sweared , ” Veg street food in India. A little risk some time adds more color to life.
2. These I mean export surplus, rejects ( with very minor defect) which are available at 1/4th of showroom price but nearly same quality. This brings in a lot of fashionistas( Not having thick wallets) to a place. Janpath in Delhi and Fashion street in Bombay are examples
3 .I mean local musicians.. I have heard some musicians in Jodhpur playing Ravan hatha ( A local violin kind of instrument..) It makes you smell the culture of that city as folk tunes are played..