Ate here for lunch and the food was very good…read more I had the beef noodle soup and kept the spice level to medium. Good value and very tasty. Medium gives a nice spice but doesn't overpower the taste. The beef was tender and the noodles were good

Nearby pizza place was closed so we pivoted to noodles. Turned out to be a great decision. Yummy…read morenoodles served fresh and hot with bok choy cooked to perfection. Classic Kung Pao was great also.

I have walked by this place many times without going inside, but I'm glad I finally tried it. The…read moredumplings are excellent. We also had the round beans and eggplant and chicken fried noodles - both very good and not too greasy. The service was good and there was a high chair and a few toys for young kids.

Good food! Great dumplings although could put more flavours on the menu. Di San Xian (Earth three…read morefresh- the delicious aubergine, potato and capsicum dish that we always get when we eat northern Chinese food) is up there. Service friendly and efficient. Good value. BYO.

This restaurant is located on Dominion road among dozens of other Asian restaurants. The area…read morereminds me of a scaled down version of Canal Street in NYC or any other China town in any major city. The restaurant is all about food, the decor is cafeteria style they are not in business to wow you with decor, or fancy lights, in my travels these places tend have the best tasting foods. When our party of 6 walked into the restaurant I was immediately struck by how small this space was and worried we would not be able to dine here. The room is basically a 12 x 14 with 12 small tables and 10 of them were occupied. Somehow the ladies in there rallied together like an F1 pit crew and stools and chairs showed up and tables were slapped together efficiently and we all sat down in under 3 minutes. We ordered: Shanghai cabbage with garlic Spicy fried rice Steamed rice Sweet and sour pork Spicy fried Squid Corn soup Pan fried dumplings Fried soft shell crab Everything was excellent, the food came out fast and very hot and very tasty. I would definitely go back to this location.

to be honest - what made spicy house amazing was the fact they were open until 4am over the…read moreweekend. Now, you guessed it - they close at about 10:30pm. All the reviews you'll see are from 5-10 years ago - when spicy house had these opening hours. Please save your money and don't be fooled. Not worth it!!!l

San Bao lies on the fringe of Dominion Road's Asian cluster, across from Zap2. One lowly day I was…read moresearching for an early lunch that wasn't McNasty or deep fried chicken, but most places were closed. SB had a 'Top 100' accolade on the window so I decided to give it a shot. I wasn't disappointed! For less than $20 I got an order of mystery meat dumplings (they only had one option, non-descript) and a rather large bowl of hot and sour soup. The soup hit the spot! Dumplings were good, nothing special. If you're looking for a break from Barilla/NewFlavour/Spicy Joint & House then go for it, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Great place to visit for cheap and delicious plate of hot steaming dumplings!! Good amount of…read moredumpling to share with small group of friends or when the family. The selections of dumplings they sell all seem very good that you will have to go back for more than once to try.~ :P The restaurant gets fully booked quite easily as it seems to be popular with the locals so it is recommended to go and take a seat early before the dinner rush starts. Their other selections of food are good as well but I recommend just getting the dumplings because it is their specialty. The price is very good as they serve a lot of dumplings and for a dollar extra, you can have it steamed or fried. Delicious~ Carpark is a bit tricky so once again, recommend on getting there early to avoid the dinner rush and traffic rush :)

Being a Balmoral local, I'm spoiled for choice when it comes to dumplings. Unfortunately for me I…read moream a fussy tart; particularly so when it comes to meat, and even more so Asian food with meat. So sadly for me it's always vegetarian dumplings and therefore one dumpling is often not so different from another. I have to say I do prefer New Flavour; mainly because the food is fresher and the place is cleaner. That's not to say Barilla are not better than they were but for me they are still second choice. One of my Sichuan favourites is Green Beans with Chilli and Barilla's version taste like the oil is dirty. I don't know how else to describe it but there is a generally "old" grease flavour to many of the menu items. Having said that, in the Balmoral strip coming second is really not so bad. This part of town does it thing well even if ultimately the influx of Westerners is neither here nor there for the business owners. I've lived here for over 15 years and as far as I can tell, popularity with the locals is of no concern to the bulk of these businesses. I will be back to Barilla Dumpling but probably on a night when the queue at New Flavour is dauntingly long.

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.

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.

This is my favourite place for a cheap dinner in Auckland…read more No it's nothing fancy inside (although the tables are cool), and no the staff aren't super attentive.... but for the price I think it is almost impossible to beat it. The menu is huge and there is heaps of choice. The fact that they hand make the noodles is great. Everything is reasonably priced, and the servings are enormous. The lamb Xinxiang noodles would be high up on my list of favourite all time dinners! Best noodles ever.

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.

Highly recommend this place! Was visiting from Hawaii and decided to order the braised beef noodle…read moreand lamb & onion dumplings. OMG! So flavorful and tasty!! Wasn't even that hungry but my daughter and I wiped it all clean, it was too good not to eat it all at once. Braised beef was so tender and the noodles perfectly cooked. Dumplings came steamed and fried and both were equally flavorful!! Will definitely come back any time I'm in Auckland. What a rare gem this was!!

From my experience, this restaurant is not worth revisiting. The food quality was poor and…read moreoverpriced for what was offered. We ordered a dish with "beef" in the name, yet it barely contained any beef--only cheap vegetables--and the little beef there was did not seem fresh, as my daughter ended up with diarrhea afterward. The customer service was equally disappointing. The waitress placed a hot dish dangerously close to my daughter's arm, risking a burn, and when we politely pointed it out, she rudely blamed us for not moving the dish. Additionally, the portions were shockingly small, and the food tasted bland and unappealing. For the $120 we spent, we expected much better but were left with upset stomachs and a ruined evening. I hope the restaurant takes these concerns seriously, as I cannot recommend this place to anyone. Consider these warnings before dining here.Have you taken the time to read all the one-star reviews? You need to take those criticisms seriously. Stop being so greedy--people come to your restaurant expecting food that's worth the price. It's fair to make a profit, but at this rate, you're running what feels like a scam. If you want to rebuild trust and attract customers, focus on delivering quality food and service that matches the cost.