The food and service at Thai Orchid is amazing…read more An added benefit was it was only a short walk from our hotel.

Very good service; I wish I would have ordered a spicier dish. It was a busy place but we received…read moreour meals very timely.

I recently went here for a meal with my family. The food was…read moreexcellent, the plates had plenty of food on them. Staff were friendly and very efficient. The price for 7 adults was really great. I can really recommend thus restaurant.

This is a very calm, nice South Asian restaurant. There's a good range of Thai, Vietnamese,…read moreChinese, Malaysian and Burmese food. I had lunch here with friends. I enjoyed a Thai Tom-Sam Prawn Salad which was beautifully made, fresh and colourful. My companions had a Massuman and Vietnamese Stir Fried Noodles. Everything was lovely, so delicious and enjoyable. Service is respectful and very professional. Meals don't take long to come. I'd definitely come back, thank you.

Good service decent prices, food is just okay. We had…read moreMassaman curry beef Pad Thai seafood (really fishy tasting... I mean really strong, and I like fish, and fish sauce. Usually. Tom Kha soup (one of my favorites) was very bland. Money Bags were good. Others have given this place good reviews and it's probably worth another try.

After a two week long vacation in New Zealand, we had the good fortune to find this restaurant on…read moreour last night in New Zealand. Excellent menu choices, very friendly staff, and good food! My wife said it was the best meal she'd had in New Zealand. We had walked about 2 miles from our hotel to get there, so when we finished dinner, we asked them to call a taxi for us...Five minutes later, the owner of the restaurant drove up and took us back to the hotel (couldn't have been more friendly). Where else in the world do you get this type of service? The restaurant is tucked back in a little strip mall, but do yourself a favor and take the time to look for it!

After searching throughout the town of Christchurch for a bite to eat on Christmas Day, we finally…read morestumbled upon Chillikiwi ('Thai in Da Box') on our way back to our hotel. I'm giving this restaurants 5 stars not only for the quality of the food for its pricepoint, but also for the effort put in by the management for opening on Christmas Day (which I think is really a truly needed public service). We ordered the pad thai with prawns, as well as a fried rice with chicken. The pad thai tasted authentic with very fresh (and plentiful!) prawns; not spicy, but I was able to add siracha to my liking. The fried rice was good, with some vegetables thrown in as well. I personally liked the pad thai more, of the two. The service was also very attentive. Really appreciate the staff opening shop on Christmas Day! Finally, the price was on point - the best value for our NZD on this trip so far. The three of us only spent 30NZD on our meal.

Delicious, fresh, affordable fast food! Ordered the way you want, with good service.read more

As far as Thai food goes in Christchurch, this is among the best we've found. I definitely…read morerecommend a booking for the weekend (bookings can be made online or over the phone). Despite being located off busy Riccarton Road, Buddha Stix is tucked back in its own private lot and the massive Buddha head statue and greenery that greets you almost makes you forget you're in New Zealand. The restaurant has a modern feel with a very small bar/tall table seating area and a larger room with a mix of seating arrangements for large groups or intimate seating. We were seated along the wall where one side is booth seating and the other is a hard back chair. The room is bright with lots of windows, an ornate red mosaic and multi-colored patterned wall paper above the booth seats. The two-seater tables are small, so I am glad it wasn't cluttered with any decor or condiments. We were greeted immediately upon walking in the door and seated just as quickly. The service from drink orders to dinner orders was also just as efficient. The menu is very intricate with options to please anyone. For starters we had the Spring Rolls (6 for $8.50) which came out quick, were crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. The rolls were served with two sauces: a sweet sauce and a soy based sauce. I highly recommend this. Not your bag, baby? They have plenty of other options from chicken wings and guri puffs to fried pork balls and marinated spare rib. If you're a soup person, you'll have plenty of options, we personally opted to stick with a main as we wanted to order dessert. The dinner menu is jam packed with your asian favorites from fried rice to noodle dishes, but what makes Buddha Stix stand out are its curry options and stir-fry/hot plate dishes. I ordered the Garlic Chicken on a hot plate which was chicken and various vegetables cooked in a wok with garlic (frankly, I could have been hit harder with the garlic as they say it's a "must" for garlic lovers). This dish was served with white rice and has great flavor. My husband had the Fresh Chili and Basil stirfry which he devoured. If you're a spice lover, you can request that the chef add some more heat, which he will gladly do. The mains are big portions and would be perfect split for two dinners. We took half of each of our dinners as takeaway. For dessert, you must save room for the chocolate brownie. It is a slightly larger than normal brownie cut in half diagonally and served with chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream and lychee sauce. This is one of the best desserts I've had in a while - if you're in a chocolate mood, this is for you! Overall, the entire meal was under $80 (including two drinks, a beer and a glass of wine). What a deal! With food this good and prices this cheap, we will be back again and again.

I have been to the Buddha six once,and it's not one of my favourite restaurants.In chch there are…read morelots of Thai restaurants and most of them mediocre.The place is rather nicely decorated ,the service is o.k it's just the food does not taste like the food in Thailand. I had Thai meatballs and hubby had green curry.

We got in town late after a long journey. We were all tired and famine, therefore walked in the…read morefirst restaurant in sight. And here we were! The restaurant looked very fancy, cozy and the manager at the front was friendly. The waitress was confused about our orders, but the manager straightened it out. As a person in our group summed up the dining experience perfectly: "expensive for what we got, but we fed our tummies."

Great decor and service as well as food. The food was pretty authentic. The only downside was that…read moreit was a bit pricey, but if you go on a deal day such as Mon or Tues between 5 and 7pm you can get two dishes for the price of one.

You know a place is gonna be good when you turn up on a Wednesday night and it is packed!…read moreAdmittedly it was mid-December and there were plenty of groups on Christmas parties to fill the tables, but even that shows just how popular it is! The service here was pretty good. Our group of 12+ had their meals served simultaneously, which is impressive considering tthe large number of diners in the restaurant at the time, and our water glasses were kept topped up -- a vital service if you chow down on a few too many of those little red chillis (very hot!). My Tom Yum Gai starter was brililant, and one of my fellow diners described the spring rolls as the best in Christchurch. There was a wee bit too much onion in my Thai Beef Salad, but otherwise the experience top notch. This place is BYO, with a corkage of just $3. Parking on street.

Wonderful little thai place which serves great food and not too long of a wait I'd recommend…read morethe shrimp soup which is a little spicy The menu reflects the thai theme and so does the decor

Worst Pad Thai I've had. Sure it's a food court so expectations aren't high but even still...read more