entity Updated 2026-08-13 Tags: Mall, Retail, Restaurants, Beijing, China

北京东方新天地 / Beijing Oriental Plaza

Beijing Oriental Plaza appears in Vol.270 大食代留在了它的时代 as the Wangfujing shopping-center location where the episode says Beijing’s last [[FoodRepublic|大食代 / Food Republic]] closed on June 15. The source uses the basement food-court closure less as a full mall case and more as a visible signal that the old [[MallFoodCourtDecline|mall food-court]] model has lost its earlier inevitability.

The location matters because it shows how a once-useful tenant category can become replaceable inside a mature city-center mall. When landlords can lease restaurants directly, bring in chain brands, or redesign food areas themselves, the value of an external [[FoodCourtSecondLandlord|food-court second landlord]] falls.

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