Mike Shopping Mall

This guide to Mike Shopping Mall on Pattaya's beachfront traces its start in the 1990s, named for the businessman behind it, at a moment when Pattaya was turning from fishing village into tourist boomtown. It follows how the mall evolved into a shop-in-shop bazaar mixing genuine department-store counters with knockoff watches and bags, and the haggling culture that goes with it. Listen for what waits on the top floor.