Except the very poor, Bangkokians from all social classes visit shopping malls, and not merely to mindlessly consume. Due to limited public external spaces, the oppressive heat and pollution, and a lack of scenic environments, shopping malls have become, as Hewison wittily declared, the new public parks of Bangkok (Hewison 1996). Malls thus have become the “foci of modern life in Bangkok . . . as ‘one-stop complexes,’ where people meet, work, run errands, or spend leisure time . . . and indulge their consumer urges” (Vorng 2011, 80). Thais start visiting malls at young ages: Thai middle-class youth subculture almost exclusively revolves around them and other commercial spaces (Arvidsson and Niessen 2015).