One of the top 50 cheap eats venues of Auckland and deservedly so. This family run establishment in…read morethe heart of New Lynn offers wholesome and tasty Chinese dishes at incredibly reasonable prices. For $25 per head, we sampled around ten dishes including half crispy, half booked pork wontons, sweet and sour pork, pork belly in sticky XO sauce, salt and pepper pork, black pepper beef, shanghai noodles and twice cooked Peking duck! Meals were served in the order that they were prepared - hot off the pan. There's a BYO wine policy, a fridge full of soft drinks and if you want a water glass, you'll have to bring your own seeing as all they have for tea are cups. Sweet honest fare and well worth the trek if you live further afield. This place deserves to become a cult classic.

We went into this restaurant as the one we had wanted to go to was closed.. Anyway, to begin we…read morewere forced to go and ask staff for menu after noone at all acknowledged our presence. And they had acknowledged two couples that had come in after us!!! So instant service rating already 1/5. The food took a while to appear, but once it did... not bad. We had ordered the mixed smoked meats in table wok & sweet and sour chicken. The mixed meats were spicy as and the chicken the same, but a little less. Despite this i managed to eat it with the aid of a cold drink. I also discovered at the end of the meal that there was some coriander in with the mixed meats, this is one ingredient I hate profusely. At least in this instance though there was coriander in it, it was little. But still a little is enough to make me feel sick!!! Anyway both dishes were okay, but the quantity of mixed meat you get for the price is not fair. Too much for too little!!! Anyway overall not that great a place.

I don't know if I have ever eaten so much food for so little money!…read more I'm told Mr Zhou was the previous owner of New Flavour and plenty of dishes are the similar to what you'll find there but what surprised me is that, contrary to the name, Mr Zhou does a whole heap more than dumplings. Don't worry there's still plenty of those doughy delights but there's also hand-pulled noodles, savoury pancakes and this refreshingly zingy salad of cucumber and tofu that fans of New fFavour will know well. Seriously, how does this man find the time.... The interior isn't much to write home about with only a couple of cheap tables and chairs but the food comes out fresh and fast and of course, there's takeaway. You can even purchase the dumplings frozen for $2 less than the menu price to cook at home. I know what I'll be serving at my next dinner party....

Mr Zhou's is one of those places that you hear about from friends. It's not in a trendy area, it…read moredoesn't have much ambience, the service ain't much to write home about BUT the food is finger-lickin' good. The ambience is definitely "takeaway vibe". There are only about 3-4 small tables, and the food is served in plastic takeaway containers. On the night we visited they were doing a roaring takeaway trade. The owners used to run New Flavour, so they know their way around homemade dumplings, hand-pulled noodles & tasty Chinese food. The menu is very similar to New Flavour, so dumplings are a must - choose from such flavours, and my personal favourites, of Pork, prawn & chives, Mutton & onion and Egg, chives & prawn. You can order them steamed or fried, or even frozen to take them away & cook at home! Other dish recommendations are: Sliced dried tofu & cucumber salad if you can handle a tangy hit of chilli in the dressing, the Fried pancakes, any of the noodle dishes and the Deep-fried eggplant with pork mince stuffing. In fact, give me time & I'd probably list the entire menu! Would love to hear some other tried & true favourites though. Cheap, cheerful Chinese - you can't go wrong!

This place is i believe one of the more recent additions to the restaurant " scene " in New Lynn…read more We went there at night and it was so so busy, about half full. The place itself is nothing flash and reminds me of quite a few other Chinese restaurants in Auckland in the way of decor and atmosphere. Service was pretty good with our orders being taken in good time , though it did seem a little longer than i expected for the food to actually come out. As for the food..... well overall it was okay. Nothing to wax lyrical about and nothing as bad as just to get up and leave over. Which is why i am keeping this so short and sweet.....it was ok overall. Not quite befitting of the name Elegance if you put the name to the feel, food etc of the place Oh and yeah before i forget the price is average too. If you dont make it there dont worry about it.

If you enjoy bad service, this might be the place for you…read more There was literally no one else there when we went for lunch on a Saturday at 12:30pm and yet we were still lucky enough to get horrible service! The server didn't even give us one smile. She asked us what drinks we would like and I asked for water for all of us. She came back to the table with the water (in the jug/bottle). But didn't give us any glasses? Um what the heck? Do you uh.. want us to drink straight from the glass bottle? I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and expected her to come back later with glasses. She didn't. So when she started bringing our food out, I kindly asked if we could get glasses. What did she bring back? One glass. ONE GLASS. Uh... okay? Do you want the three of us to share this one glass? Quite silly really. I ended up going up to the counter myself and asked for two extra glasses, which she proceeded to give me with no smile. If anything she kind of gave me a look of disgust. Food was okay. Quite pricey - but the portions were large so that's the only thing I could give them ups on. Don't think we'll be coming back.

This place always get the thumbs up from us. No matter how long we leave it between visits over…read morethe past years the service, quality of food , price remains the same. You a pretty good size dish for what you pay....big enough that it is definitely takeaway material later on. ( Does well for lunch the next day!!) The staff are always friendly and pretty quick to respond to any requests . And as one previous reviewer stated they have more large group size tables here than small ones, and it is BYO as well. Parking is outside though on a busy time it can fill up pretty quickly, but there is plenty of street parking nearby. Has been one of our favourites out west way for quite a few years now and will continue to be so.

Yes hello green jade takeaways avondale. Ok my partner has…read morejust been there & ordered steak chop suey & paid,,but you guys there gave us steak and vegetables on normal noodles. Not very happy as this has happened twice now. What can you do to fix this please as we are regular customers. Email me at danairwin0187@gmail.com

Why do I repeatedly ask Chinese restaurants for lemon chicken when no matter where it is from I…read morefeel grossed out by the sickly sweetness of the meal? This one had no exceptions except for the fact I only got half way through my ample size $11.00 meal and decided I could't bare any more... don't worry Green Jade, it's about me, not you. However, why was my chicken so stringy? Was that really chicken I ate? And Green Jade if you have been around for so long why do you still have hand written signs on the wall? Some of which have items scrubbed out with a texta (ok, that is an Aussie thing, I have recently heard that it has another name here.. .marker?!). So many questions Green Jade, so many questions...

The most horrible restaurant you could ever been, and the most disgusting service you can't even…read moreimagine! Not only talk about the customers behind their back, but when you heard and confront of them nothing but denial! When you question them about their customer service, not only they started arguing at you either their way or no way; or if they really mad do watch out the food that you about to eat, you might get some spit all over your food by the chefs as a bonus! Welcome to aroha restaurant & bar! Good luck ~