Lucky Plaza Commercial Complex

Back in the day, Lucky Plaza was a seedy mall that sold everything from pirated video games to X rated videos. When you went in there, there was the distinct smell of cigarettes lingering in the air and seeping from the inside of the mall. The shops were either empty or operated by people who you really don’t want to mess with and the deeper you went inside the less desirable it became.
Turn the clock forward to the modern day, the place has cleaned itself up big time. There are no smokers, no fake CDs– instead there is now a supermarket, some old shops have carried through the regeneration including some shops selling mobile phones and watches which have been here forever. The mall’s focus is now less centralized than before, you have a lot of shops focused on ladies fashion, a number of stores that sells mobile and electronics and a number of pharmacies.
This turnaround is such a big one that I trust anyone who came here in the old days probably couldn’t recognize it now. Good riddance to the old days when I just thought this place was waiting to be taken apart and this regeneration has really breathed a new lease of life into the margin of the Shatin City Centre complex.
Would I come here all the way to see it? No. If you live nearby though, this is a pretty good place to kill time.

Lucky Plaza is actually a residential area as well as a shopping center. The boyfriend lives around Sha Tin so this is the closest place to go when we want to stock up with new PlayStation games, electronics, cheap clothes, and above all: cold noodles. The plaza is connected to New Town Plaza by an indoor bridge, near Zara and Marks & Spencers. Once here, it’s a completely different ambience to the clean swoosh-​smooth marble floors of New Town Plaza — much more gritty and local but, of course, just as crowded.
The cold noodles I spoke of earlier are the ones that you would typically find in those Mongkok shopping centres. The routine is as such: you pick and choose what you’d like to add in your noodles by grabbing plastic bags filled with all kinds of ingredients including seaweed, imitation crab meat, sausage, or spicy octopus; then the bags are mixed together with noodles and garlic or spicy sauce. The shop in Lucky Plaza follows the same trade, and has been around since I was in high school, at least. It always has a crowd, and is hard to miss. I’ve yet to find a cold noodle shop like this anywhere else in Sha Tin.
As for electronics and games, there a few shops scattered around here, including an accredited PlayStation Platinum Shop (Shop No. 169) where you’ll find games when the many electronics stores in Sha Tin New Town Plaza fail you (and they will, if you’re looking for PS4 games).
I’m not an authority on fashion at Lucky Plaza, but there are plenty of local boutiques here, selling clothes, lingerie, and accessories, at much cheaper prices to anything on the other side of the bridge. You’ve also got a Yoshinoya, a McDonalds, and a few local cafés if you get a little hungry in your spree and don’t like cold noodles (but who doesn’t?).

Walking distance from New Town Plaza, Lucky Plaza is a little shopping mall that is home to many small shops. There are no big names here (for that, head back to New Town Plaza!). Instead, the shops here are more so small, family-​owned businesses — a very refreshing chain from the other internationalized and chain-​dominating malls of HK.
Lucky Plaza is not big — you can circle it in a couple of minutes if you try. My favorite thing to do here is to explore the ‘locker shops’. This is a concept where the shop consists of multiple squares, each divided from one another, and the sets of items in each are different. Rent in HK is expensive, and sometimes, a store owner may not have that much to sell. These locker stores allow them to rent out a locker or two monthly to sell their items while not having to be physically present in the store.
As a result, a locker store is basically a ton of shops within a shop. It may be surprising what you can find here! My most recent purchase from Lucky Plaza was actually a drinking game from one of the locker shops here — I thought it would make a fun gift for a friend’s birthday, and it was pretty inexpensive! K-​pop merchandise is very popular here, including posters, folders and even playing cards, with each card featuring a different photo of a Korean celebrity! If you’re interested in scrap booking or other crafts, you’ll be able to find a lot of nice materials for that too. There are about three or four of these locker shops and they are usually the main reason for me coming to Lucky Plaza.
The clothing stores at Lucky Plaza are not so remarkable though — a lot of brightly colored oversized t-​shirts or outfits that are just way over the top. There are one or two accessories shops that are worth checking out though. As for food, your dining options are pretty limited. Tam Zai (Yunan-​style noodles) is not bad, but I’m not a fan of the other restaurants here. It’s best to venture back to New Town Plaza where there are a lot more restaurants to choose from!