12-hour beef pho (NZ$26.50)
Vietnamese Omelette (NZ$25) plus chicken (NZ$5)
Roast pork Banh Mi (NZ$18)
Vietnamese drip coffee (NZ$8.50
Back again to Mug 'n' Bowl Cafe & Eatery (8a Carr Rd., Three Kings) for a delicious lunch. 12-hour beef pho (NZ$26.50), Roast pork Banh Mi (NZ$18), Vietnamese Omelette (NZ$25) plus chicken (NZ$5), Vietnamese drip coffee (NZ$8.50). #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Feijoa souffle with creme fraiche.
Raw line-caught trevally with avocado, horseradish, cucumber.
Went to Apero for a quick bite (Raw line-caught trevally with avocado, horseradish, cucumber, NZ$33) & their feijoa souffle (NZ$24) (currently back on the menu). Delicious as always. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
The Pho section of Hanoi Eatery's menu.
Bowl of pho with sliced rare beef (P2 on their menu) from Hanoi Eatery.
Delicious beef pho (NZ$17) from Hanoi Eatery (Queen's Court, 368 Queen St, CBD). It's a more gingery pho than most other places but I like it. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Steamed rice roll with prawn.
Deepfried taro dumpling.
Steamed pork spare ribs
Steamed chicken feet.
Kangda Chinese Restaurant (New Lynn) for good yumcha lunch: steamed pork ribs, chicken feet, deepfried taro dumpling, steamed rice roll with prawn. Used to be Elegance & I understand kitchen staff is changed recently also. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Curry Chicken Noodla Laksa ($17)
Signature Hainanese Chicken on Rice ($16).
Dynasty BBQ Noodle House (New Lynn).
Signature Hainanese Chicken on Rice ($16).
Curry Chicken Noodla Laksa ($17)
They have a Malaysian chef & these are superb. Be warned though the laksa chicken is poached then added on top, not cooked in the laksa, but it's done well.
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Cucumber salad with crunchy peanut
Panfried soup bun with pork filling (2 portions).
Prawn & pork wonton soup.
Scallion oil noodles.
Little Yum Dumpling (Albany) lives up to its name.
Cucumber salad with crunchy peanut.
Scallion oil noodles.
Prawn & pork wonton soup.
Panfried soup bun with pork filling (2 portions).
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
View of Wynyard Crossing a.k.a. Te Wero Bridge after dinner. Bridge span is lit up in blue but the rain was coming sideways.
The Agedashi tofu & Beef tataki were superb. The chicken kaarage was crispy on the outside & tender inside, but I thought it needed more seasoning. The service was friendly but not terribly polished. I'd happily eat the tofu & beef again.
(Weather was horrendous...)
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 2/2
Interior of restaurant dining room.
Agedashi tofu: tofu, bonito flakes, spring onion, nori, chilli
Beef tataki: beef, ponzu, garlic, onion, spring onion, sesame oil, microgreen
Karaage chicken: chicken, lemon, white radish, mayonnaise
AOI (Modern Japanese. Wynyard Quarter).
Agedashi tofu: tofu, bonito flakes, spring onion, nori, chilli
Beef tataki: beef, ponzu, garlic, onion, spring onion, sesame oil, microgreen
Karaage chicken: chicken, lemon, white radish, mayonnaise
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 1/2
Beef Bourguignon: Slow-cooked Greenstone Creek beef cheek, potato purée, homemade mustard, red wine jus, buttered leeks($39)
Grilled Greens: Wood-fired Ahi green vegetables with smoked yoghurt & gingerbread crumb ($10)
Dinner at Origine Bistro (Commercial Bay).
Beef Bourguignon: Slow-cooked Greenstone Creek beef cheek, potato purée, homemade mustard, red wine jus,
buttered leeks($39)
Grilled Greens: Wood-fired Ahi green vegetables with
smoked yoghurt & gingerbread crumb ($10) #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 2/2
French onion soup: Origine’s favourite with slow-cooked oxtail toastie, gratinated Comté ($28)
Lamb & Cheese Pie: Puff pastry, Mahoe farm mature gouda, truffle oil ($12)
Dinner at Origine Bistro (Commercial Bay).
Lamb & Cheese Pie: Puff pastry, Mahoe farm mature gouda, truffle oil ($12)
French onion soup: Origine’s favourite with slow-cooked oxtail toastie, gratinated Comté ($28)
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 1/2
Dinner as described served on a squareish black soup plate.
Ingredients at top of a bowl of bokchoy cut lengthways, a small dish of sliced spring onion, and at bottom an oven tray with chicken wings, onion, potato marinated with gochujang, honey, lemon juice.
Chicken wings, onion, potato, gochujang, lemon juice, honey, spring onion garnish. Wilted bokchoy. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Takeaways at top: the fried noodles with chicken, acar (pickle), sambal, lemon, basically a Mee Goreng. At bottom: the sambal eggplant.
Chicken rice bowl (boneless fried chicken, mix vege salad with mayonnaise, poached egg yolk, salted egg yolk sauce, crispy curry leaf)
Tried the Chicken Rice Bowl with salted egg yolk sauce ($18.90) from Ho Ciak (Albert St., CBD) & got for takeaways the Fried Noodles (Mee Goreng) with chicken ($19.90) & the side of eggplant sambal ($12). It's all delicious but the eggplant was the clear winner for me. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Green tea pancakes
Pork ribs
Wonton soup
Steam rice roll with shrimp
Seafood Paradise 2020 (yumcha at Wynyard Quarter). Wonton soup 8 pcs ($17), Pork ribs ($10.90), Prawn Steam rice roll with shrimp ($11), Green tea pancakes ($9.90). Food is made to order so slower compared to trolley service, but it's my new favourite yumcha spot. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Seasonal greens with vegetarian oyster sauce.
The Peking Duck, half-a-duck, one course with pancakes, sauce, cucumber & spring onion.
Oversized food sculptures at window display of a roast duck, a plate of roast duck on rice, a bowl of banana prawn laksa
Dynasty BBQ Noodle House (New Lynn). Peking Duck (half duck). Crispy Pork Intestine. Greens w Vegetarian Oyster Sauce. Duck was decent but not crispy-skin Peking duck, pork intestine was excellent, the greens were a touch salty. It's good enough that I'd go back. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Prawn cocktail, Marie Rose, Avocado, Iceberg lettuce, lemon
Cracker Bay fried chicken, crispy chilli, pickles, aioli.
Bravo at Cracker Bay (yes really). The menu makes me think of a gastro pub. I had a couple of small plates, the prawn cocktail & the fried chicken. The food was good (not spectacular) but the location & service that made the experience even more enjoyable. Would return. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Lunch as described, of a bowl of braised beef noodle with soup & a smaller bowl of spicy tripe.
My arm with a line out the elbow for the plasma donation. In my hand a red blood-drop-shaped squeezeball to maintain bloodflow.
Plasma donation & lunch.
Did my bit by donating plasma yesterday. After that I rewarded myself with a delicious lunch at Jinweide (Lincoln Road) with their Braised beef noodle with soup ($17.99) & Spicy tripe ($9.99)
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
The claypot, now empty, but with an oily bottom left from the greasy saffron rice.
Claypot beef: steak, saffron rice, bone marrow. The claypot contains the steak sliced on top of the saffron rice, and toped with what we thought was crispy rice vermicelli. The bone marrow was served still in bone that had been cut lengthways in half.
My only quibble: the claypot beef was delicious but the rice was greasier than I like. If you like marrow, definitely order it: it was terrific!
#AucklandEats #kai #food #wine 🍜🍽️ 2/2
Duck liver donut with fermented cherry & Grilled pork belly, raw fish, coconut. Small bites presented on bowl of uncooked beans.
House bread with misozuke butter
Lamb ribs, jang glaze, tamarillo, soy mayo. Normally two ribs per serve but we got an extra one.
View of dining area, well-lit, wooden floor, cosy. A glass of house rose is at the left foreground.
Went to Rothko for lunch at the weekend. It's excellent.
House bread with misozuke butter
Duck liver donut with fermented cherry
Grilled pork belly, raw fish, coconut
Lamb ribs, jang glaze, tamarillo, soy mayo
Claypot beef: steak, saffron rice, bone marrow
#AucklandEats #kai #food #wine 🍜🍽️ 1/2
Triple cooked potato, black garlic butter, kimchi sour cream
Matcha cream donuts, yuzu curd, white chocolate
Triple cooked potato, black garlic butter, kimchi sour cream
Matcha cream donuts, yuzu curd, white chocolate
Wines were both delicious & good with the food.
Tettonica Pét-Nat (Pinot noir, Syrah, Chardonnay)
Albert Bichot ''Mr No Sulfite'' Beaujolais Villages
#AucklandEats #kai #food #wine 🍜🍽️ 3/3
Wagyu gimmari (crispy seaweed roll with soy dipping sauce.
Salmon crudo, chilli lime creme fraiche, nashi pear, chojang, perilla crisp
Charred chicken, gochujang, comte cheese & leek sauce
Gochu salad: cos lettuce, nashi, apple & shallot dressing
Wagyu gimmari (crispy seaweed roll with soy dipping sauce.
Salmon crudo, chilli lime creme fraiche, nashi pear, chojang, perilla crisp
Charred chicken, gochujang, comte cheese & leek sauce
Gochu salad: cos lettuce, nashi, apple & shallot dressing #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 2/3
"Leave it to the Chef" menu
Had a lovely lunch at Gochu (Commercial Bay, downtown Auckland) on Auckland Anniversary day. Did the "Leave it to the Chef" option with wine match (NZ$60 + 20, but with holiday surcharge 15%). I really enjoyed the variety of flavours. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 1/3
BBQ Duck Cafe shopfront.
Closure notice pasted on BBQ Duck Cafe front door.
Looks like another eatery is gone. The BBQ Duck Cafe branch across from Aotea Square (350 Queen St) is no more. The notice says they've decided not to renew their lease because of the economy. The 115 Queen St branch is still going though. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
...and the sesame seeds added as garnish was a great finishing touch. There's not a huge amount of toppings, but enough for the bowl & at $16 was good value. The karaage is four pieces of chicken, all thigh in my serving, juicy, tender, & well-seasoned. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 3/3
Shio (salt base) ramen is way less common in Auckland than miso, shoyu or tonkotsu ramen, but I really like it. The clear broth looks simple but with simple there's nowhere to hide. Genzui's version, so very good. It came with a slice of chashu & half a boiled egg... #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 2/3
Chicken karaage
Shio ramen
Genzui was my favourite town ramen spot so I was gutted when the Crowne Plaza shop closed. But last year they re-opened in Birkenhead. I had the shio ramen ($16) & the karaage chicken ($8). Tasted as I remembered: delicious.
#AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️ 1/3
Soy sauce chicken on white rice with some mix vegetables (cabbage& carrot)
Went to Chubby Boy (42c High Street, Auckland CBD) for lunch: soy sauce chicken on rice ($14.8) which came with a small bowl of soup (complimentary). It was a bit saltier than I like but was tasty & good portion size. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️
Capybara sculptures inside the shop with "Please do not touch" signs pasted on.
Bowl of signature tonkotsu ramen at Kapiba Ramen
Chicken karaage
Capybara sculptures, photo taken from outside the shop.
Lunched at Kapiba Ramen, the place with the cute capybara sculptures just inside. Signature tonkotsu ($20) & chicken karaage ($9). Tonkotsu: excellent though saltier than what I prefer. Chicken: I've had juicier but this was still tasty. Would Kapiba Ramen again. #kai #food #AucklandEats 🍜 🍽️
The martabak, already cut into quarters arranged on a plate, with a small bowl of chilli sauce to accompany.
The bowl of Soto Ayam
Bandung (Indonesian place on Parnell Rise). Soto Ayam (chicken soup with glass noodles & hardboiled egg, with a potato croquette on the side). Martabak (spiced beef mince wrapped in roti pastry & fried. #AucklandEats #kai #food🍜 🍽️
The Bare Wine menu on Apero wooden clipboard.
The tartiflette with cheese on top.
The Rosette de Lyon, a platter of thinly sliced cured saucisson with a small bowl of cornichon in the middle.
Plate of accras (fluffy fried fishy bites) accompanied by a slightly spicy tomato sauce.
Bare Wine takeover of Apero is delicious. Accras (fish fritters with slightly spicy tomato sauce), Rosette de Lyon (thin slices of cured saucisson with cornichons). tartiflette (baked potato with lardon, onion, cheese). www.barewine.co.nz/products/%F0...
#AucklandEats #kai #food🍜 🍽️
Beef lamprais in banana leaf
Nasi Goreng (with fried egg & calamari rings)
Vegetable biriyani
Went to Grand Ceylon (Papatoetoe) for dinner with friends.
TL;DR Really delicious, really cheap, really slow.
Didn't take many photos because by the time the food arrived we were ravenous & just tore into it.
#AucklandEats #kai #food🍜 🍽️ 1/6
