I was craving authentic Cantonese Chinese food and voila, I stumbled into this restaurant. It's…read morewalking distance from the bus depot where tour buses start and end, and it's also walking distance to the Grand Millennium hotel, City Lodge and YMCA hostels. The staff is all Cantonese-speaking and they can handle English too of course. Seems popular for takeout. They do classic deli style meats like bbq pork cha siu and roast duck. The dinner dine in and takeaway menu are wide ranging, from soups to hot pot, and even laksa given how popular that is in this part of the Pacific. My dinner dish came with rice, my favorite classic bone broth and a pot of hot tea. All for under NZ$20. A gem! Clean bathrooms too.

Lovely Authentic Shanghai Style Restaurant even though it is named Noodle House. You will enjoy…read moremore besides good noodle. All kinds of noodle, with soup or without, most of them are authentic taste. However I do enjoy the simple noodle with fried spring onion oil, a little bit soy sauce and that's it. People from Shanghai usually take it as a snack before dinner during summer time. Smelling the spring onion oil, in a certain way, is like special treat to your nose. I bet you will enjoy it. Then you can try the typical fried pork buns with the smoky bottom adding the flavor, juicy but tasty inside. Watch your tongue while eating it hot. Fried rice cake is another option if there is still space left for a gourmet treat. You can tell basically it is rice pudding just fried, still crispy, still full of crunch biting fun by your teeth. Go for the dish on the menu, I believe it is worth trying after 4-year successful opening. People know the right place to eat something local and good value. Just wish the decoration could be improved with some touch of the classic Shanghai.

Small family runned restaurant serving pretty good Shanghainese food. Extremely competitively…read morepriced and decent sized portions. Sometimes the wait can be a bit long but with dad the cook, mum assistant cook, waitress cashier and all and daughter the gopher, they do alright. Come early as seating is very limited.

We can verify that their good reviews are based on solid evidence that Bann Sang is one of the best…read moreKorean restaurants in Auckland's downtown area! Located on a trendy area of High Street near Victoria, the restaurant (upstairs and downstairs as well) serves excellent and authentic Korean cuisine. We ordered Dolsot bibimbap (hot pot style) and the rice was crunchy on the bottom as required. Yum! The kalbi short ribs with rice and ban chan (veggie side dishes) was well seasoned and tender! Would go here again. Friendly service too. Despite the excellent food and a trendy location, Bann Sang refuses to over-inflate prices- they are very reasonable!

We came here because I wanted soup. I had the galbi tang- short beef ribs soup with glass noodles,…read moreradish, egg and spring onion. I ordered it as a full set, which comes with side dishes and rice. I loved the comforting broth. There was a good amount of meat in the soup, so I was pretty full afterwards. The sides were average, and I could've gone without them.

Delicious food, awesome service and loved the ambiance. 10/10 would recommend for a chill…read morelunch/dinner place to go to.

One star because the price of the food is way too high for what you get. Can't eat the ambiance…read more Plus this is a chain of restaurants designed for those who know nothing of Malaysian food. Its nothing really special nor authentic; plus the selection isn't very deep; just a few dishes to choose from. What's worse is that the portion is really small. We ordered the Hainan Chicken Rice at $26 and the Char Kuay Teow for $24. At these types of prices I was expecting it to be authentically spectacular but I was very disappointed. This price is a good $10 to $15 more than any other Malaysian Food restaurant in Auckland. Hence, this is probably the first and last time here, as long as there are other Malaysian Restaurants to choose from!

Friends selected this place for an early dinner during my recent visit to Auckland, specifically…read morecharging me to order dishes they'd never had before. Having lived for a long time in China I felt up to the task, but was not sure how a restaurant with a somewhat corny name would perform. On arrival I was put at ease by the exclusively Chinese clientele and the Mandarin-speaking young staff, who didn't bat an eye at my speaking with them in Chinese. Though there was no seating available in the main dining room, seats were available upstairs so we sent up there. Decor-wise, the place is a bit lacking, but in a way that adds to the atmosphere. The menu is the attraction anyway, and it is extensive. Since the chef is a member of China's Muslim minority Hui nationality, there is no pork on the menu, but there is lamb aplenty. And being a northern-style restaurant there are loads of wheat-based dishes (noodles and dumplings) rather than rice. Our order consisted of the following: an order of pan-fried lamb-fennel dumplings （羊肉茴香锅贴）; cleaver-sliced noodles with beef (刀削牛肉面)）; eggplant with garlic sauce (鱼香茄子）; peanuts in vinegar (醋泡花生）; and one each of the lamb and beef Chinese "burgers" (肉夹馍）. We had hoped to order lamb kebabs as well, but they were out (and while I'd have loved to have had the chicken gizzard kebab, my friends insisted on no offal, and there is a minimum of five kebabs per order). The only slight disappointment was the beef "burger", since the meat was a bit dry, and the vinegar peanuts were not as punchy as I like, but the other dishes were spot-on. And the prices are very reasonable so you can afford to try new things without a budgetary concern.

Oh man, that's too much with the Beef Pao Mo, a totally big bowl with full beef and Pao Mo but the…read moreprice of it was just normal. I didn't finish them, so I have to say sorry to the chef, next time I would get a small one, lol.

We went here initially because we thought it was a Shanghainese restaurant ,only to find that it…read morehad changed and is now a Sichuan style cuisine restaurant. But not a problem we still went in. When we went in you could tell it had just had a good clean up / paint job etc as it was spotless all over. The windows were open as it was a beautiful summers night and though it was a busy city fringe street it was still nice to sit by the window and watch the world go by and admire the flowering plants and trees . Anyway about the restaurant. The staff were good, very welcoming , good efficient service and always waiting there should you need anything. As for the food we ordered a Mao dish( a traditionally hot and spicy dish ), spicy deep fried chicken and pork in soy sauce. They were all pretty quick coming out from ordering to on the table . As for taste they were all as good tasting as they look on the photos. The price worked out not too bad either. All in all a good experience , good location, excellent service and food.Highly recommend. Hopefully it will be there for a long time to come.

Service was quick and the bowls were a bargain! I got the minced pork bowl which could have easily…read morebeen lunch and dinner for 16 NZD! Wife got the beef soup which came out with a heap of beef bones. Neither of us could finish our bowls!

First meal in New Zealand? Chinese food, of course! It's hard to find authentic Chinese food back…read morehome, and King Made Noodles, specializing in Beef Noodle Soup, in Auckland was pretty spot on. Never knew this, but quite a lot of restaurants (and stores) close early--before 8:30-9pm. Thankfully, King Made Noodle closes at 10pm on weekdays! So walking around Auckland evening into nighttime was quiet, but Fort Street, where King Made Noodles is located, had a few places open to eat. This really looked liked a fun place to eat, and it was! Really enjoyed the woodsy decor! The main thing, of course, is the hand made soup noodles where you can select the size of noodle you want. All the noodles are hand pulled to order. You can see the noodle master make it right next to the bar. There are also lamb skewers, dumplings, roujiamo (Chinese burger), and an array of small cold dishes such as wheat gluten, bean curd strips, wood ear mushrooms, lotus root, and etc. (very similar to China). Started with two appetizers: marinated bean curd strips, and seaweed salad. The Bean Curd Strips was simple, tasty, and tender. The Seaweed salad was very good. Tender, spicy, garlicky, and flavorful. Lamb Skewers were good. Nice, meaty pieces of tender lamb with the slightest gaminess. Nicely spiced, good char, but needed a touch more salt. Chinese Lamb Burger was good. The meat inside was basically the same as the lamb skewers, but the lamb in here was more dry and tough. It got hard to eat after a while. Lastly, the Traditional Beef Noodle Soup was good as well. The broth was decent--beefy, clean, and homey. The noodle was really good. You can definitely taste it's freshly made as it's light and springy. The beef itself was all right. Thin, lean, and tender. Similar to the beef slices in Pho. But overall seemed toned down. Overall, a nice place to grab food. I'm always happy to have fresh, hand-pulled noodles with authentic flavors with other authentic dishes. Service was good. You order at the front, and then find a place to sit. Everything is mostly self-service. Choose your beer from the fridge, get your utensils near the kitchen, grab your water from the dispenser near the front door. Food came out quick and hot.

Always a favourite of mine. I go to Empress Garden at least twice a month and it never lets us…read moredown. It's been around for many years and is well known for its peeking duck, which in my opinion, is the best in town by far! The menu is extensive and there are lots of surprising delights such as scallops with egg white. The staff are great, Christine and Dorothy (the managers) are friendly and do everything they can to give a great meal!

We are keen Chinese food lovers and we were very charmed by this place. We ask for some Pekin Duck…read moreand they made the effort to share one with another larger group to satisfy us. Thank you