Report - Oriental City, Colindale London - Oct 2013

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Visited with Gabe and Seffy.

I haven't visited a site quite like this, it felt like being in a zombie film most of the time! We headed here and eventually found it after getting stuck in traffic which gave us little daylight time which is why the photos are mostly in darkness!

History:

This shopping centre contained a large oriental supermarket and a food court with a range of foods from different areas of South-East Asia. Food stalls offered Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese foods. The food court was complemented by a number of oriental restaurants in the complex, with the majority of them located on the upper floor. The complex contained two Dim Sum restaurants, a Szechuan restaurant, an 'all you can eat' restaurant and a bowling alley. It comprised of two floors and had a multi storey car park.

Oriental city closed completely in 2008. Since then it has sometimes been used as a filming location, most famously in the 2012 movie Dredd.

Out the back:

In the car park:

Inside the complex:

The food hall:

Love these escalators. Shame about the rapidly deminishing light:

The bowling alley:

Upstairs:

Thanks for looking.
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