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We’re going to call it: this may be the best beef rendang in Auckland. It is slow cooked for hours, redolent with lemon grass and spices, falling apart on your fork. It costs $13.50, or $14 if you...
View ArticleSHAOLIN KUNG FU NOODLES
[Photographs: David Straight] We just call it Kung Fu, and we’re pretty sure half the initial attraction was in the name. But there is much more to this noodle joint on Dominion Road – directly across...
View ArticleMY KITCHEN
[Photographs: David Straight] A very long time ago, I came to look at what is now My Kitchen, back when it was a dirgy flat above a shop. It looks much better now, slightly mod and very clean. We like...
View ArticleXI’AN FOOD BAR
[Photographs: David Straight] Such a prosaic name: such wondrous food. Xi’an is down the bottom of Anzac Avenue. It is small and plain, and about the only defining feature is the hilariously 80s...
View ArticleLAKSA HOUSE
[Photographs: David Straight] There are times – a rainy Tuesday, say, or maybe Friday – when nothing but Malaysian hawker food will do. And when that happens, we head straight to Laksa House in the...
View ArticleBLUE BREEZE INN
[Photographs: David Straight] Auckland has needed a Chinese restaurant that doesn’t have fluorescent lighting for a long time – so when the Blue Breeze Inn opened, we were hopeful. The fitout is...
View ArticleCHEF RASA SAYANG
Photographs: David Straight Chef Rasa Sayang isn’t much more than a small hole in the wall in the Highbury shops – it’s next door to the highly excellent Yummy Korean. It has a big front window and a...
View ArticleEDEN NOODLES
Photographs: David Straight There is no pissing about here. Eden Noodles sits on a windswept stretch of Dominion Road where it is virtually a motorway, near the Target and the Chinese supermarket. It...
View ArticleCHOP CHOP
Photographs: David Straight We’ve been waiting for someone to do this. Auckland has a plethora of noodle shops of many hues and the food is good, sure – but until now, no one has taken that food and...
View ArticleRAMEN TAKARA
Photographs: David Straight People often ask us where to find the best ramen in Auckland and we have two answers: Ramen Do, and Ramen Takara in Browns Bay. You’ll find it in the Browns Bay shops, a...
View ArticleSAN BAO
Photographs: David Straight San Bao is just far enough from the Dominion Road Dumpling Triangle that it doesn’t often get much of a mention. Which, for you at least, is a good thing: by night, it’s...
View ArticleBLOSSOM COURT
Photographs: David Straight There are many reasons to go to Panmure: the lagoon, that great sign on the awful roundabout, and increasingly, some brilliant ethnic food. There’s the joint serving...
View ArticleDISTRICT 5
Photographs: David Straight District 5 is two small sheds around a deck on Shortland Street, in the lee of corporate office towers and we presume they’re referring to District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City...
View ArticlePEASANT
Photographs: David Straight Remember Two Monkeys? Just in case: a glass box with a blue-painted steel frame, dirty floors, formica tables, ordinary food. Last year, brothers Simon and John Yip (their...
View ArticleV-FUELS
Photographs: David Straight Just off Queen Street, there are a handful of new restaurants on Mayoral Drive, tiny little spaces with a handful of tables. V-Fuels is the smallest: it’s mostly kitchen,...
View ArticleDUMPLING ACE
Photographs: David Straight We’re not quite sure why they called it Dumpling Ace. Don’t get us wrong, the dumplings here are very good indeed – we’ll get to them in a moment – but they’re not quite the...
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