First Glance: Dining at Tun San Li Mall

Erin Strong | Feb 15, 2014 1:00 pm | 2 comments | 5292 reads

Back in 2010, we were writing about Tun San Li Mall at the intersection of Gongti Beilu and Chunxiu Lu and its projected opening in 2011. Well, no surprise, three years later here we are and the mall is finally opening its doors. Largely empty at this point, a handful of new places on the ground floor have finished applying their final polish and are ready for the public to come eat. 

It seems that a prerequisite for almost all dining spaces inside Tun San Li Mall was ample amounts of space – as in, a galactic expanse of space. 

Already opened for business inside the mall are the clean-cut Café Groove Coffee and Bistro, contemporary Japanese cuisine spot Circo, Hot No. 1, Orient King of Dumplings, Wang Steak, and Xiao Liu Soup Dumplings with more places expected in the coming weeks. The greatest gem of the mall thus far is a second location of the Yunnan restaurant In and Out, a surprisingly massive space which you can find tucked away in the northeast corner on the ground level. 

Tun San Li Mall 屯三里购物中心
Daily 10am – 10pm. 21 Gongti Beilu, Chaoyang District
朝阳区工体北路21号

Photos: Erin Strong

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squid's picture squid Submitted by Guest on Sat, 02/15/2014 - 23:32

Don't know about the restaurants, but the management in that complex was the worst group of thieves and liars and incompetents you could ever compile. They seemed to revel in their ability to refuse service of the most basic kind, to lie about prices and polices, to cheat and scam at every possible turn. The homeowners in the complex went around to every occupant asking them to join them in a massive organized complaint against the management comany, but they basically just told them complain all they want, they don't care. I think they were all preparing to sue them.

Everytime something would break (which was often) or there was a billing problem for utilities, or water was leaking into your room, they would try to find some way to blame the occupants for the trouble. There were a pair of twin brothers, clearly related to the owners as they had no fear of losing their job, that were acting as service managers (purely an act) who were actually just Nazi sympathizers hoping to resurrect the spirit of the SS in the Middle Kingdom. It got to the point to where the poor girls at the service counters had to constantly apologize for their own company, saying that they know there are big problems, but that the management level of the company refused to do anything to solve the myriad of issues.

The managment company is Darwin Management, and I think anyone who has lived in any of the buildings they manage knows about some of the issues with this company. Hopefully the restauranteurs are aware of who they are dealing with.

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