the best Chinese food we had during our trip! can't wait to go back again. It's so authentic with…read moregood portion of food.

I regularly have Yum Cha dates with a group of friends and we have tried a few places around…read moreAuckland with the two biggest factors in choice being taste and price. We found Hees Garden after a recommendation from a friend and we've stuck with it since. It's a great Yum Cha! Plenty of options and they come out frequently. The quality is great and the price is really competitive. Almost half what we were paying for the same quantity of food in Newmarket and the quality is the same or better. There isn't a huge amount of a la cart options which is disappointing. And when it gets really busy the wait for food is quite long. But overall a great, cheap and central option for Yum Cha.

why only 3 stars????…read more I'm very happy with raviz,the food is great and the prices are just fine for a lovely dine-in. I live just minutes away from this place and i cantthink of any other cuisine when i have a yummy restaurant like raviz just down the road.just last night i bough peas pulao indian style only for 8.50 the quantity was nice and it was simple and delicious. My favourite curries : paneer Makhani,veg jalfrazi,shahi paneer,veg manchurian,veg hakka noodles and chilli paneer DRY!! My favorite Entree dishes : Paneer pakora,onion bhaji,mushroomfry and samosas ofcourse.. oh yum.. theres always something new you try here.im usually so afull after the entree i can bearly gulp down my mains and hence i never order deserts.well try some deserts here and let me know how you go !! :)

Raviz is yummy cheap Indian food! This is my family's local choice of Indian and I really would…read morehave to rate it. As boring as it sounds I just cannot go past their butter chicken and poppadum's; unbeatable combination. The nan bread is also worth getting. Located on the corner of Ladies Mile and Main Highway in Ellerslie, you cannot miss where Raviz is based. Many years ago I'm pretty sure it was a gas station and from its external appearance you can definitely see that it could have been. This area has now been turned into onsite parking. What I think is great about Raviz is that they have a lot of daily deals. For example, on Sundays kids dine for free when accompanied by a parent. How cool is that! They also have great $12.95 lunch specials. So come on down to Ellerslie and try some yummy cheap Indian, you'll be impressed.

It was a walk-in walk-out experience. All they had were big tables and the glum faced waitress…read moreshoved us to 2 cramped seats with several other people. They appear not to cater for 2 people. A quick look around at the empty tables and we decided that there are other places that will appreciate our patronage. So exit left!

Dined here for dinner last night, after selecting this for Fathers Day dinner…read more Never disappointed in the food here as we have dined here in the past and with the big portions and quick service of food. . Great stuff! Staff for the most part are helpful but rushed off their feet so may seem a little stressed. Ordered the Chinese sauce beef sizzling plate, egg yolk prawns, special tofu, vermicelli steamed oysters, and Gai Lan stir fried with garlic. Chinese sauce beef was beautiful soft and flavourful, lacked some veges in my opinion that you'd find in that standard sizzling plate but they really packed it generously with meat! Egg yolk prawns were good, prawns battered well and tasty. Special tofu, this is my preferred way of having tofu. Loved it! Silky with crispy outer, delicious! Oysters were over steams so rather tough, the vermicelli was dry. . Not the best I've had. . The gailan was really good, had the great al dente texture and wonderfully garlicky! All in all, the bill was $220, great food for the most part and I definitely will be back for more.

You don't go to Legend noodle house for the ambiance, nor do you go for the décor. It's actually…read moreprobably not even somewhere you want to sit in and eat (except to try the complimentary green tea). Legend Noodle house is all about the Singapore Noodles. I'm not sure what goes into these noodles (I'm not sure I really want to know either) but they are greasy, hang over curing, perfection. A takeaway serving could feed you for the rest of the week. They are in the traditional style with prawns, chicken, beef and LOADS of bean sprouts. I've only once strayed and tried something else on the menu. It was good, but not nearly as good as the noodles. I actually can't vouch for anything else on the menu (except maybe the won ton soup which is ok). But the Singapore noodles are suberb!

Wonton noodles are good here. The other stuff we've tried is ok too. Reasonable prices and run by…read morea nice old couple.

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.

Stayed hear by hotel and was craving for some Asian noodle soup and this was the closest and menu…read moreseem good. Old and dated place but clean enough with few tables inside. Ordered spicy beef noodle & congee with nice and friendly middle age lady worked there. Took 20+mins for the foods to come out. Nice portion for the price. Soup & congee are not bad, but not that great neither. Good enough to crave the craving. Most are orders for pick up but not much for dine in.

I was wandering around late night and this place allowed me to grab takeaway 15 min before closing…read more The noodle soup is GREAT. Very flavorful. The chicken was kind of questionable so I didn't eat much of that in the soup. The bok choy was 10/10. Garlicky in the best way. Had leftovers at room temp the day after. Small little hole in the wall but totally worth it.

Great food with an enormous menu. No frills but the food is definitely worth the trip. Go here…read moreoften and always take home enough fora second meal.

I have two friends who both raved about the Mt Albert noodle house and how it was so good. Then…read morewhen we finally went to go to it, it turned out they were each talking about a different restaurant. So we went to this one. We had Char Kway Teow which was delicious, some sort of vegetables in garlic which were delicious, and this gelatinous lamb soup which I thought was foul but that my friends really liked. Some of the things we didn't try but saw photos of on the walls looked delicious, as did the meals other people were eating. I mean they do things like horrible gelatinous lamb goop - seriously, it was like mutton boiled in hand soap - but with that one exception everything was really appealing, and even with that I seem to be in the minority. So something for everyone, I guess.

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.