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| My healthy breakfast! =) |
It's going to be a day of shopping today as it's Australia's Labour Day. We headed to Box Hill Central, which came highly recommended by the hubby's colleague.
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| Box Hill Central (Address: 1 Main St, Box Hill VIC 3128, Australia) |
It felt like we walked right into Asia because almost everyone here spoke Chinese or Cantonese. There were even shops selling Asian produce and goods.
There was also a Box Hill Kids Playground at the top level of the mall, next to the food court.
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| Top level of Box Hill Central |
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| Box Hill Kids Playground |
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| The main highlight was a giant rocket in the middle of the playground |
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| Walking across the plank and down the slide |
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| Ample seating for accompanying adults |
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| Another seating area for adults, nicely decorated with planets |
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| Interactive screens that uses Xbox Kinect technology |
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| Creating a profile and playing the games |
We shopped around for awhile before heading to the Asian restaurants along Carrington Road for lunch. There were a few popular ones but we chose Roast Duck Chicken as it was recommended by the hubby's colleague and there were tables available.
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| Restaurants along Carrington Road |
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| Roast Duck Chicken (Address: 37 Carrington Rd, Box Hill VIC 3128, Australia) |
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| Left: Various dim sum; Right: Wan ton mee with super huge wan ton (AUD10) |
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| The roast meat platter (AUD28) and fried rice (AUD10) were delicious, especially the roast duck! So succulent and tasty! |
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| Beef hor fun (AUD10) was good but nothing to rave about compared to the roast duck |
Overall, unless you are really missing Asian food, I would give Box Hill a miss. We didn't find shopping there any better than the DFO.
Hence, we headed to DFO Moorabbin
to continue our shopping!! (Shopaholics much? *laughs*)
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| DFO Moorabbin (Address: 250 Centre Dandenong Rd, Moorabbin Airport VIC 3194, Australia) |
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| The store directory |
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| They were still having their Labour Day sale! |
We bought soooo many things!!! Totally fulfilled our shopping requirements!! =)
Including this DFO, we have visited a total of 4 out of 5 DFOs in Australia: we visited DFO Essendon yesterday, DFO South Wharf during our last trip and DFO Brisbane when we were in Brisbane a few years ago! Yes, we really love shopping! *laughs*
Hence, if shopping is your key reason for visiting Melbourne (or if you're just shopaholics like us!), choosing to go during an Australian public holiday may prove to be very rewarding =)
That night we had a homecooked meal at our apartment thanks once again to Chef Grandma!
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| Chicken kebab from Prahran Market all wrapped and ready to cook in the oven |
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| Super juicy and fresh lobster tail! Yum! |
At around 10pm, we heard the sound of fireworks and managed to catch the full display from the comfort of our balcony!
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| The view of the fireworks from our balcony |
I spent the rest of the night packing our purchases into 3 additional bags! Crazy! *laughs*
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