Xi'an Food Bar in the Food Court , Auckland is one of those places that reminds you why you love finding truly authentic spots. This is handmade greatness, run by a hardworking husband-and-wife team, and you can feel the passion in every bite. The noodles are clearly made in-house, perfectly textured, chewy, and coated in bold, comforting flavors that hit all the right notes. Everything tastes fresh and intentional, not rushed or mass-produced. It's the kind of food that makes you slow down and actually appreciate what's in your bowl. What really sets this place apart is the heart behind it. Watching the owners work, cook, and serve with pride adds another layer to the experience. No gimmicks, no overdone presentation, just honest, soulful food done extremely well. If you're in the food court and want something memorable, satisfying, and genuinely authentic, Xi'an Food Bar is a must-stop. This is the kind of spot Yelp Elites love to champion -- small, personal, and absolutely delicious. I've already been back. read more

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I came here for a very late lunch and ordered the Chinese Stewed Pork Burger. It wasn't what I expected, but was still good. I was craving a cumin pork burger but this was more of a spicy pepper burger. One thing I didn't like about the burger was that it had more onion than pork. However, if I were to come back, I'd like to try the noodles. read more

Xi'an Food Bar - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

Xian has to be the food capital of China, so whenever there is a restaurant with Xian, you know we have to go! Xian Food Bar was supposed to be the first place to eat at on our arrival to Auckland, but it was too late and we missed last call. We returned the next day, and barely made last call as our tour went a little long, but take out only. That's okay since this place was only a couple of blocks away from our hotel located at the intersection of Anzac and Beach Road. This place is quite small with only a few tables on the side, and outside looks a little rundown with the old, faded sign, and graffiti, but don't let that deter you from good food. We started with Xian Processed Noodles, which is liang pi (cold noodle skin). It had cucumber strips and wheat gluten. The spicy sesame sauce was tasty and delicious! We also got an order of wheat gluten (did not know the liang pi had too!). This was good, but wasn't as tasty as the sauce in the liang pi. It had a nice spice kick though! The Rice Noodles with Spicy and Hot Beef Soup was really good. Broth was hearty and flavorful, and the spice level was spot on. Beef was tender and delicious. Overall, this was a good meal. Tastes and flavors were spot on. The lady who took our order was very friendly and nice. Always love these smaller, hole in the wall Chinese restaurants where everything is simple and straightforward. It was hard to not order everything, especially the dishes that you haven't had in a long time. Until next time! read more

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Tried this place while visiting Auckland & it is delicious & authentic. The noodles are chewy and bouncy with a flavorful sauce, although could do with more meat. Same goes with the slice beef and tripe, very flavorful chili oil but small serving of meat. It isn't the fanciest of places, with minimal decor. You order at the counter or using QR code & then the staff will bring out your food. read more

Xi'an Food Bar - sliced beef and ox tripe, hand pulled noodles with cumin lamb, cumin lamb burger - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

Solid noodle shop. The noodles themselves are random, hand made but far from uniform. The braised meats are nice and the spicing makes the dishes absolutely delicious. There is tremendous value here and in a cold day, this is the ticket! Seating quite limited, many carry out meals. read more

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Omg the food here is so f***ing good I had to leave a review. The cucumber salad with the chilli oil is delicious and the broth of the soups and handmade noodles sooo tasty. Wow. Better than the fancy restaurant my friend and I went to last night. Feels a little like you're in their kitchen with a pretty basic table and chairs and grab your own chopsticks atmosphere nothing pretty inside but who cares food absolutely amazing prices great. I dig it. Service was great, quick too. :) read more

Xi'an Food Bar - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

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So freaking amazing I needed to post a review. I've been wanting to check out this spot after seeing the food on my TikTok recommended. And I was finally able to check it out on this rainy day. I decided to take out a bowl of their #52: Hand Pulled Noodle Soup with Braised Beef. Absolute definition of comfort food!!! The hand-pulled noodles are absolutely phenomenal. It was my first time trying authentic Chinese hand-pulled noodles, and I can certainly say they were the best noodles I've ever had. The braised beef was so fatty and tender, and the noodles just soaked up all that fat and flavor. I think the only thing that I didn't care for was how oily the soup was on top of all that fat from the beef. I think it would be a better dish if the broth was cleaner and lighter since the dish is already so hearty from those thick hand-pulled noodles. Plus, I tend to stay away from eating things that are too fatty since I have a weak stomach lining. However, even though I know my stomach will not be happy tomorrow morning, I can say, hands down, that was the best meal I've had in a while. Can we also talk about great value? I got the medium size, which was more than a generous serving, for only $13.50 (Large size- $15). That's crazy for a place in the CBD, especially for food of this quality. I also enjoyed the nice, cozy, mom-and-pop shop-style atmosphere: what it lacks in terms of interior decorating it makes up for in the food! Will be coming back to try out other dishes sometime soon! read more

Xi'an Food Bar - #52: Hand Pulled Noodles with Braised Beef - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

Holy hand-pulled noodles Bruce Lee! Talk about a late night kick in the Hai-yah! I'll make this timeline review, short and sweet. Tuesday night @ 9:50pm: Thinking, crap they're gonna close at 10:30pm. Better run my way down there since it's close to the Pullman Hotel. 9:53pm: Ran down the park. Tried to cut through the indicated shortcut via google maps. Boo! Blocked, denied. Alternate route found, great! Hurry hurry, run run run! 9:55pm: Sweet, found a set of stair down to the main street. About fifty steps later, Xi'an Food Bar was in sight! 9:56pm: They're still open but cleaning, eek. Now, normally I wouldn't enter a restaurant when it's close to closing, but I was freakin' hungry. 9:57pm: Politely asked if they'll still take my order, and with a smile, they did. Assuming the woman there is the owner, possibly with her daughter. And after reading yelper reviews, and to make things easier, I pretty much knew what I wanted: Chinese Cumin Lamb Burger ($4.50): Basically toasted pita bread with chopped up lamb meat. Spicy, but really savory good! It actually went well with my papaya drink. I liked it, but will probably stick with the noodle dishes next time. #29 - Hand-pulled noodle soup with stir fried pork ($9): Um, YUM! The broth was mellow and mustard flavor. Not spicy nor oily at all. Could've used a bit more pork, but it was still a delicious bowl. It was soup that just hit the spot, and the noodles held up quite well in the broth. #37 - Hand-pulled noodles with Xi'an Style Braised Pork ($9.50): I mixed up the chili flakes and cilantro, and BAM! Instant gratification! The noodles were thick, stretchy, chewy, firm, and just down right exquisite. The meat was kinda scarce as well, but all mixed up made for another delightful bowl. I endorse this bowl if you can't decide what to get. 10:15pm: Got back to the hotel and just grubbed it all down! Okay, well not all of it. I shared. A little about the place. Well, it's small, typical in dining with about six tables. Nothing romantic, but I can see it being a popular lunchtime joint. Pretty cheap in price especially for what you get. Pay these folks a visit if you've never been here. The owners were even kind enough to let me yelp some photos before they bagged it all up for take-away. No dirty looks, just happy smiles. I'll be back! read more

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In amongst that series of Asian restaurants on the corner of Anzac Ave and Customs St, you will find this no frills food bar. It is one of those blink and you'll miss it jobbies but come lunchtime it is always packed out with hordes of people chowing down on huge bowls of hand pulled noodles (the biangbiang noodles are ridicky good). Although the noodles are pretty darn good, I have a total soft spot for their rather greasy but epically delicious, Chinese burgers. They're not complicated - plain old pita pockets stuffed with sticky, melt-in-your-mouth braised pork - but they are packed full of flavour and at only $4.50 a pop, are an absolute steal. If they weren't so devoid of nutritional value...I would be here at least once a week for sure! read more

Xi'an Food Bar - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

Maybe I am bias but I think the Northcote pork hand shaven noodles are better tasting! The extra here is that they top the pork with sesame seeds. The meat here was a tad dry for me. But flavors were similar! Service was fast though! If you're in the CBD and need Xi'an's food then this is a good place to go, but make sure to try Northcote as well and compare the differences! read more

Xi'an Food Bar - Pork with hand shaven noodles - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

A busy day at work. So many people yelling at me for stuff I didn't do. But then... What's that? Dinner invite from friends... 6:00pm at Xian Food Bar? Heck yeah I'll be there. If you've ever been to China, this place will feel very familiar. Multicoloured plastic baskets full of assorted vegetables? Check. Sauces and pots and pans crammed on every surface in the kitchen? Check. Off brand flatscreen TV doing low budget slo-mo flyovers of the food? Check. Their noodles, braised meats and "burgers" are all amazing. Favourites: - #37 noodles - corned beef burger And then you walk outside and you're back in Auckland. read more

Great food , no frills and cheap. Just what I like!!! The chinese burgers ( 肉夹馍 ) , either lamb ,pork or beef are for me the best I have tasted in the city. One little thing to mention is if you need the toilet you have to get a key from the staff and it is in the apartment building next door. read more

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This was the one place I HAD to eat while in Auckland, and it did not disappoint. The pulled noodles are perfectly thick and chewy and the braised pork melts in your mouth. The steam buns weren't anything special, but did help cool down the spice from the noodles. We also got the crushed cucumber, which again wasn't anything amazing so I recommend sticking with the noodles. Portions are huge, basically two meals worth of food for less than $10. The restaurant itself is very small and unimposing. Only seating for 20 or so, but service is quick. Orders are placed on electronic keypads and they don't accept credit, although debit is fine. read more

Love it. I come here weekly for the braised pork and hand pulled noodles. Just like I had in Xi'an. read more

Went here with my friends, so that I can try different types of food. My friends had the Chinese burger, noodles as well. So I tried Wonton, which was like the Shanghai's food and I think it's not bad. read more

Xi'an Food Bar - Wonton - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

THIS. You have to eat here for authentic Northern Chinese style lamb dishes. The noodles are hand-pulled, the Chinese style lamb burger is out of this world. Imagine a sesame flatbread stuffed with braised lamb, some hoisin, some coriander and spring onions, OMG. A bowl of noodles is under $10. The burger is even less. Also, there are some fun remote control type gadgets you can use to place your order...if you can figure out how the system works, that is. Don't expect a fancy restaurant, it's definitely a dive. However, what spartan environs there is, the food sure makes up for it in flavour and pizzazz. read more

The lamb is yummy. Bit far for me but worth it. I prefer the Panmure store And the bread thingy. yummy read more

I love this small hole in the wall was here a few summers ago and it was located near our hotel. The hand pulled noodles even with the oil chili was extremely refreshing and so authentic to the Xi'an region cuisine! If you like noodles this is definitely worth the walk! read more

As a Chinese, my hometown is Xi'an. I have to say the foods in this restaurant is very authentic. I just moved around it so i can eat the classic gourmet of my hometown everyday! read more

Xi'an Food Bar - 油泼面 - Chinese Near Me - Auckland, AUK

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I love getting takeaway from this place. Hand pulled noodles and burgers are great value and tasty. Not much in the way of atmosphere but that's ok if you are just picking up. Worth trying if you like Chinese food. read more

Tastes just like the Xi'an noodles I had in China. Only one minus for having seen a cockroach climbing around the teapots! read more

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The hand pulled noodles are really good. However, the anything except the lamb soup can be not so great - the pork and vegetarian option often comes too salty. Overall, great value for money. read more

It's still the holiday weekend in town after New Year's, so finding a place that was open was a tad difficult. My wife and I were hankering for some Asian food, though, and we decided to swing by Xi'an for lunch this late morning / noontime. The decor isn't much to write home about, with a handful of tables in front of the counter, and the kitchen fully exposed behind, but you're not coming here for the ambiance - you're showing up for the goodness of home-cooked regional Chinese food! Placing our order was easy enough (the menus don't really have much in English besides a short description beside the number, so don't get too bogged down in the details), and our food was out shortly thereafter. I actually liked the cumin-rubbed lamb burger the least, mainly because I felt that the cuts of lamb were difficult to chew, making eating the burger a bit of a challenge. The bun was fine, as was the flavoring, but there was just less lamb that I found edible than expected. The two soups we got though we're very good. The first - a small order of the Xi'an-style lamb soup with vermicelli - reminds me a bit of Vietnamese pho, but with a definite addition of heat with pepper already baked in solidly into the broth. As such, I definitely was sweating a bit while eating the soup, but it had a nice, light flavor - a hint of lamb (which was also much more edible / not as challenging to negotiate eating), along with a few sprigs of cilantro here and there to add a bit of herbal flavor to the dish. I really liked our last dish, which was the noodles with stewed pork. You definitely worry about spiciness when you see the large red patch in the broth, but it again is more of a slow, simmering spice as opposed to the numbing kind you would find in a Szechuan dish with that amount of chili oil. The broth is very flavorful, and the noodles (we went for the regular kind, as opposed to hand-pulled) were able to soak up and absorb a lot of the flavor in the broth as well. The pork in the soup was in the form of succulent cubes which I had no problem inhaling with everything else in the bowl! Some veggies (such as sliced carrots) were a nice addition as well. For $18, we had ourselves a pretty hearty meal, and I was overall very pleased with the quality of the food. I was told that there are no credit cards, so unless you have EFT POS (whatever that means - it's a foreign term to this Yankee), you will need to make sure to have some cash handy. Definitely worth a stop if you are looking for Xi'an cuisine in Auckland - it may not be much to look at from the outside, but what's in the bowl and on the plate is all that matters. read more

Read the reviews on Yelp for this place around 4-5 months ago when looking for a quick bite and decided to give it a go and specifically the Braised Pork noodles. Well let's just say that I come here if not weekly at least fortnightly to grab them for lunch and meanwhile half of our office is too. They're getting used to my phone calls ordering 6 noodles at once. And really - don't worry about ordering the extra large option. I can eat a lot of food and I can only just finish the standard size! At $9.50 they make for an excellent value lunch! Yum I'm feeling hungry just thinking about it ;-) read more

Really spicy stuff! Great for those who love spice but probably not for those who can't handle it. Slightly loud but nice atmosphere.

We ordered marinated beef, stewed pork noodle, seaweed, cumin lamb bun and cold rice noodle. The two types of noodle were not soft enough. The marinated beef was too salty with sugar. The stewed pork was salty as well. Except the taste of seaweed was OK, all the others were not what we expected. read more