To start the first of many to come, I put together all my Abu Dhabi mall trips in one place. Looking through all my photos, I realized I actually visited a lot of them (five to be exact) despite coming from the land of shopping malls. Of course, this is not an extensive explanation of what each mall has, but just the interesting places that I've seen around here! I must emphasize though, ABDB is not just only about malls.

Marina Mall is a more family-friendly, 'residential' sort of mall, with supermarkets, mid-range brands and food court upstairs. It is huge though. Before you think it's just another mall? Nope. There is no such thing as a normal shopping mall, because they decided to put a real 15,000 year old wooly mammoth fossil here! 😱 Originally found in Siberia and placed in Marina Mall for all to gape at, this is a stunner that is right in the middle of the mall. But no touching - or one of the security guards would wrestle you to the floor (did not try that).

There is an extensive supermarket but this is the wall that caught my interest the most.

Willy Wonka world from top to bottom! (This shelf stretches on quite a bit too)

The Galleria, Al Maryah Island is a much more upscale shopping mall with all the high-end brands including Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. It was Chinese New Year during then and the decorations were also up!

Strangely the decor was quite elaborate even though there aren't many Chinese around the area.

Yas Mall is my favourite of the lot even though it is quite difficult to access. It is huge with a good mix of high-end and mid-range boutique stores, a lot of cafes and restaurants to dine at, and even a cinema! One of the restaurants, ROGO's, even has a crazy multi-spiral, double loop, and tornado track system to serve your food and drinks.

If you are into checking out interesting restaurants, put this in your bucket list!

One of our dinners we had it at Cheesecake Factory in Yas Mall, a restaurant that was made famous in New York! They had a really cheesy, savoury & completely appetising menu, and it is little surprise that the whole restaurant was packed with people.

Last mall that we stopped by was Nations Galleria for an afternoon tea time, at award-winning cafe Leopold's of London. They even have a Leopold’s Tea Library which houses more than 70 types of tea collected globally!