March 13, 2010

Suburb of Box Hill

Whenever I visit Box Hill, I forget that I am in Australia, as this suburb is largely populated by Asians. I love the shopping and food there.

Box Hill is 14 km / 8.7 miles east of the Melbourne CBD. It’s easy to get to by public transport from the CBD. Take tram no. 109 and get off at the last stop. But be prepared for a long ride because there are many stops in between.

When we got off the tram, we saw this wonderful shiny sculpture. And I thought of Weekend Reflections (Click on the link for more reflection photos).

Box Hill Sculpture © Evelyn Howard 2010

Box Hill Sculpture © Evelyn Howard 2010

The following photos have no reflections, but here is another sculpture in the shopping area.

Box Hill Sculpture © Evelyn Howard 2010

Box Hill Taiwanese noodle © Evelyn Howard 2010I love shopping at the Asian grocery stores. It’s a trip down memory lane for me. Here, I am able to buy ingredients that my mom cooks with in Malaysia. We also visited our favourite Taiwanese noodle shop for a yummy bowl of beef noodle (left).

On the way back to the tram stop, I noticed 2 interesting looking buildings, shown in the next 2 photos.

Box Hill © Evelyn Howard 2010

Box Hill © Evelyn Howard 2010

Scenic Sunday: click on the link for more photos.

15 comments:

Jenn said...

What an interesting suburb -- quite artistic, I think. And with Asian cuisine and grocery in the vicinity, that's a winner. The noodle soup looks yummy.

Tes said...

Amazing sculptures, Evelyn. You have captured it beautifully. The buildings really look interesting. It has character. The noodles look delicious. I love going to Asian grocery stores too. :)

Carletta said...

Love the sculptures!
What a great reflection find.

Louis la Vache said...

Mme la Vache, being from China originally and having lived in Japan for 15 years, would no doubt like to visit Box Hill.
;-)

Lindz said...

that's an interesting modern structure I thought for a while that it's a CCTV until I scrolled down the page...

it's pretty much teh same here in Sydney there is a place called Cabramatta where 80 percent of the residence are asians or vietnamese.

Lorac said...

Thanks for the cool tour of Box Hill!

cat said...

I also love the sculptures and the architecture of the Asian houses :)

Pietro Brosio said...

Your beautiful images well describe Box Hill. It seems an interesting suburb, I like the sculptures too.
Happy Sunday :-)

My name is Riet said...

What a lovely place to visit.Love the sculptures

Carolyn Ford said...

How fun that area seems to be! The sculptures with the reflections in the first photos are so cool! Box Hill provided you with some great photo ops! And, the Asian influence is always a treat...nice post!

Kat said...

The reflections in the sculpture are wonderful. What an interesting piece! And there are some reflections (in the windows) in the third shot too! Kathy

nice A said...

You have great pictures here. Love the shiny sculptures.

Nefertiti said...

jolie ;O)

robkistner said...

Very very cool, enjoyed this considerably – thank you for sharing…
…rob
Image & Verse

Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪 said...

very sleek chrome sculpture. Those words beneath? are some grafitti?

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