In the Philippines the act of going to a shopping mall and spending time there is so popular that it has become a verb this southest asian country has three of the worlds 10 largest shopping centers and two of them are in the capital manila although over 40 percent of the country's 100 million people live on $2 or less per day malls here are crowded at all times malls are especially packed at weekends many people just come to the mall to stay cool because the philippines can be very hot another reason filipinos like to go to the mall is to kill time because there are very few public parks or other public places in manila