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Compare the brown-and-yellow Subway outlet with the shop lot to the right of it. Apparently, those two have been built as one building and seem to be in very different shape now.

This is very typical for Asian cities. You may find a perfectly renovated old shop lot, or even a flashy new outlet of a chain, right next to an empty lot with peeling paint and full of garbage. Then there may be a shop next door that looks perfectly kept in order, but with a 1950s design, as if it had been there for countless years without a change. And again the next shop may be an outlet of a service provider which consists of a desk with a phone and a clerk and nothing else (not even wall decoration), open to the street of course.