Glenferrie Road is the train station for Swinburne University, so as you’d expect there are lots of takeaway restaurants in close vicinity which cater for poor, hungry students.
Several factors led me to Kim Chi Lunchbox: it was open, it wasn’t Indian (no shortage of burp-inducing Indian takeaway around Burwood Road and Glenferrie Road), it was enroute to the train station and they had the day’s copy of The Age. None of which is really a good criteria for selecting a restaurant.
Not that the food was bad – it just wasn’t particularly good. My bibimbap was a large bland bowl of rice, veges, bean sprouts and sliced beef. None of the famous Korean spicyness was evident, not even after numerous squirts from the chilli sauce plastic squeeze bottle presented with my bowl. The meal was sloppy but filling for $9, which I guess is really the only criteria if you’re a hungry student on a budget. However, I’d rather get my bibimbap from Goshen on Smith St.
- Kim Chi Lunchbox, 652 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn 3122 +61 3 9818 1233
This post saddens me a little. I used to be a student at Swinburne, and Kim Chi Lunchbox was one of the places I would regularly go for lunch, and I really looked forward to it! I never had the bibimbap, though. I usually would have the bulgogi chicken or octopus set.
Perhaps times (and chefs?) have changed – it has been about five years – but I remember the place fondly.
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| February 26, 2010, 9:10 am
When I was still a student, I always look for cheaper food on restaurants but I also make sure that the food I am going to get is healthy just like this looking good and nutritious bibimbap.