WoW was introduced by my Yelp friend many months ago. I came here during the 99 Ranch Market's…read moregrand opening. Many restaurants at the West on West mall was still under construction. I could see signs but everything was empty. I don't like to come to an empty mall. That's no fun. So, I stopped coming here for quite a while. I heard many stores opened up. Ok, I'll be back soon.

I remember when Mark pointed out WoW plaza back in 2023... it was an empty lot. We were hanging out…read morethat day, running on some trader Joe's errands. Lol. Fast forward and I have had the chance to visit WoW twice so far... Earlier in the year and this week. It was fun. The plaza continues to fill up with shoppes, boutiques and cafes. I visited TESO life earlier in the year and brought back bébé with me. He loved the bright claw machines which have been all the rage this summer season. Hello 90's vibrancy and excitement. No Labubu for us, we're good. We were happy to hangout with Pekkle the duck instead... Sanrio for life. Again..cue the 90s vibes. Thank you for joining in on the adventure this week.... Both Mark and I are 16 years Yelp Elite... And it's always fun to chat about the city and the latest scoop of what goes on in town. Looking forward to revisiting WoW - West on West, when more shops open and pop up!

It's pretty clean, they must put a lot of effort into Sterl-ization…read more If you've gone blind from Sterling at the sun, you can come here (perhaps after dark) and I'll lead you to some miraculous boba. If it seems that people are staring at you in this plaza, don't take it personally... they're probably sterling at you rather than staring at you. Featuring H-Mart and so much more, this is one of the largest and most thriving plazas in Chinatown Houston which is one of the most thriving Chinatowns in the western world. It's not quite as intense and packed full of stuff as the massive Dun Huang complex across the street, but it more than holds its own in terms of bakeries, boba, and brilliant noms. Sterling is a wide-open, clean, and new-ish looking really lovely Plaza right across from DH, and seems to get somewhere between 50-75% of the business that DH gets, mostly for H Mart, 7 Leaves and 85 Degree Bakery, plus a lot of other less busy but sometimes even more brilliantr places, especially Mr Wish, which is one of the best boba shops in Texas, and probably the best fruit tea provider in the state. Another wonderful Boba shop here is Modern Tea, and Tea 4 U has some wonderful employees and owners, as well as the wonderful 85 Degree Bakery which is a chain but it's one of the best locations quality wise (if not always service wise), and open late, as well as the very popular 7 Leaves with some great employees and a really cute ice cream shop named Bae, imported from Los Angeles (first location outside Cali), and where a lot of hotties can be found (and coldies, ice cream wise), and some excellent restaurants as well - for example King Flavor and Sinh Sinh. Now I've made a Sterling effort to describe it, I'm moving on.

Sterling Plaza complex was established in 2005. Local shoppers often have mistaken it as Hmart…read morePlaza, because it sits prominently in your face as you enter the parking lot. It was once known as Sterling Golden Market Center to real estate professionals. I like the huge parking lot. I haven't yet seen it filled until 85C Bakery Cafe arrived at the southeast corner of the mall. There are 3 distinguished buildings: - 9896 Bellaire is facing the Boulevard and all suites are in alphabets. It starts from the left at Chengdu Taste and ends at Arco - 9888 Bellaire is on the east end with an L shape building. All suites are numeric. Starts at Tian Tian Lu Chuaner (suite 102) and ends at Uyghur Bistro (suite 168). - 9968 Bellaire is on west end as it runs to the end of property. Suites are also numeric starts with Hong Kong Seafood City (suite 100) and ends with Dragon Foot Relax (suite 250B). After my extensive research about Sterling Plaza, there were some connection about precious metals in its name. The first supermarket was called New Golden Supermarket (suite M). A couple hints are Golden Dumpling House (suite A) and Golden Beauty Salon (suite 115). I have to guess Sterling is silver. They compliment in many ways to represent prosperity. I dislike the numbering schematics. Hmart is Suite M. Taste of Chengdu is Suite A. I would never guessed Arco Seafood is Suite K. There's a secret passage behind Uyghur Bistro. Watch out for hidden traffic. **105th review of 2017**

Not to be confused with the First Colon-y Commons, which are very much filled with colons…read more This is a pretty standard strip mall and it's big and spacious and there's plenty of parking and smooth asphalt as well. See what I did there. Colon-y. Assphalt. OK. So one of the things I like about it is that it's well paved and seems new so it's pretty organized and one of the better strippers in town. I mean strip malls. Sorry I was watching Barbie dance.

Again another place called a "mall" that just a strip mall, over-playing it's significance…read more However, this strip mall does host a lot of useful places. Of note are Home Depot, Michael's, Office Depot, and Tuesday Morning, which are the places I actually go to here. There are many more shops too, so you can get a lot done in a small area, but probably not everything. Naming is a bit confusing as everything in Sugar Land is "First Colony-something." First Colony Mall is down the road on the other side of Highway 6, First Colony (the neighborhood) is further south on Highway 6, First Colony (the shopping center) is on the opposite corner of Highway 6 and 59, and Lakepoint Shopping Center is frequently referred to as First Colony as well (on the opposite side of 59.

The drivers in this centre are bad... so bad, that I won't even give them an inch. And if I do…read moreit'll be an Angry Inch, since we're at Hedwig... This is a low key shopping centre right across the highway from the extremely packed and busy nightmare that is known as the Bunker Hill Plaza. It's in a similar vein as Bunker Hill, with some good shops like Ross, where you can get good cheap clothing, but it's much more low-key and has much less visitors which is probably a good thing.

Not a place to write letters (that's Fountain Pen Shopping Center) or do battles with the French…read more(that's Fontainebleu Square Shopping Center) or eat Swiss food (Fondue Square Shopping Center). This is one of the most beautiful shopping plazas in town as it's so massive with so much parking and so wide open and has so many great businesses in it - especially Lee's Sandwiches and Bambi which is named after me, and of course the wonderful Nguyen Ngo, which has great Croissant Banh Mi, and don't forget Lee's iced coffee which is probably the best in town. And then of course there's also the steam rice roll type dish perfected by Thien Thanh, which are some of the best Viet food I've ever had, and one of Houston's best meals.

Being fair with people on the telephone (instead of being a raging psycho) is called being…read more"Telfair". This shopping centre is named after that pipe dream. Not that there are any pipes here. Not visibly anyway. In Sugarland you'll find the shopping centre named Telfair right on University off of 59, which has some good Boba and some nice food options and a very overrated overpriced Supermarket too - Sprouts. Overall it's pretty good and it has a lot of space and it's big and white and full of parking spaces. It can be a little bit annoying getting in here though due to the lights taking forever and bad traffic sometimes.

I'm famous for my fountain, and a lot of people have seen Barbi's famous fountain, but this is…read moreunrelated to those fountains except in the regard that Barbi and I come here regularly. This is a massive sprawling and magical shopping center that it's hard not to love. I know strip malls are ugly and generic, but not all are created equal, and this massive oval-shaped monstrosity is honestly beautiful, and some of the fancy restaurants along the highway are gorgeous, with lake views. We've been loving it for a long time, since a couple of days after I met Barbi, when I came here. There's a lot going on here, so many stores and a lot of love honestly. A lot of fond memories and wonderful times I've had here over the years at FOTL, much better than LOTR for example. So I have a very close and romantic association with it. There was a Borders here long long time ago and I fell in love, and that's how it goes. You know how it goes. Lots of love in this place. I lake what I see. You will too. If it were out of ten, I'd give it a Foun-Ten.

This is what Elvis Presley was singing about when he used to sing "Return To Center." I'm not sure…read morewhy he loved this plaza so much anyway, and I am surprised it was even around in his day. This is a brand new shopping mall in Pearland which has a Salata and a bunch of other stores that are shiny and new - so not from the day of Elvis, then. I like coming here on a regular basis whenever I can and I will continue to do so. This is one of the better strip mall type places that I visited recently.