Panda Kitchen

Reviews

1. Andrew Huang ★★★★☆

   The braised pork belly is a traditional Chinese dish that involves many procedures. First you have to boil the pork to half cooked, the marinate with dark soy sauce and deep fry for crispy skin. Next step is to slice it and place it well in a bowl to steam for few hours. The result is melt in mouth meat wand fat that brings you to heaven. Given the complicated cooking method, we are happy to try the braised pork belly in here - and it delivers. For the other two dishes- beans are average Chinese restaurant quality and claypot rice is surprisingly good.

   almost 6 months ago
2. Mei K ★★★★★

   An absolute delight dining in this tiny restaurant out in East Auckland. Upon arrival, we were greeted by a friendly voice. We ordered a clay pot of rice and cucumber pickles. Both were very yummy. The menu has many different dishes and desserts. The restaurant was full with patrons. We will certainly return for more dishes especially in this cold winter.

   almost 11 months ago
3. Rosie ★★★★★

   Best stone rice pots I’ve had. Authentic stone pots, yummy selection, generous portion, super tasty!! Efficient service, atmosphere I rated well cos it’s your typical ‘messy’ but hearty Asian congregation table layout for a feed. Always satisfied with the stone pots, special shout-out to salted fish and pork. Won’t be disappointed! Consistency in the dishes is always spot on as well, have been a few times now and still happy with the food each time. Best congee and rice dishes as well, love panda kitchen!!

   1 year ago

1. Tian Wang ★★☆☆☆

   My friends and I had plans for a delightful weekend dinner, but our experience at this restaurant was anything but enjoyable. Despite making a reservation for 7:00 PM, we arrived to find no table available for us. Despite inquiries, no one seemed interested in addressing our concerns. We were left waiting for nearly half an hour before finally being seated. While the appetizers arrived promptly, the overall quality of the food was just okay. Considering the service, I don’t think it’s a place to recommend.

   almost 2 years ago
2. Vicky Huang ★★★★☆

   A very small restaurant, came for lunch today, food were delicious, will come again!

   almost 2 years ago
3. Hugo Huang ★★★★★

   Worth to come back again. One of the most popular places to enjoy Cantonese Clay pot rice dish！

   almost 3 years ago

1. William Lin ★★★★☆

   Decided to try Panda Kitchen after a recommendation. Went there around 7.30pm, so it was not that busy. Ordered and the food came out quickly. The claypot rice is pretty good and the Cantonese style fried vermicelli was tasty too. The fried rice noodle with beef (& soy sauce) was a little bland. The Congee was ok, maybe too much pepper. Overall not bad and I would still come back for the claypot rice

   almost 3 years ago
2. Benedict Uy ★★★★★

   This was one of the few places in Auckland that does claypot rice so we came by to try it. They were quite busy but we were able to get a table without waiting too long. Their menu is decently sized with one side containing and rice and noodles dishes and the other the meal dishes for sharing. With the claypot rice they had quite a few options. I have tried the chicken and mushroom one as well as the persevered meat one. Both were really tasty and had a nice amount of topping and rice. The rice had a nice texture and it did crisp up in the claypot so there were the crunch pieces to enjoy with it. We also some of their other items and I really liked the raw fried sticky rice as well as their egg tofu. The prices were fairly cheap considering the amount of food that we got. It is a great place for lunch or dinner and has become one of my new favorite places for tasty Chinese food.

   almost 3 years ago
3. Wilson Shum ★★★★☆

   First time trying here. I love claypot rice so definitely tried it here. We had the claypot chicken and mushroom, claypot salted fish with pork and also salted fish with eggplant on rice. My favourite was the claypot chicken and mushroom, the rice was nicely separated but good texture. The mushroom and chicken adds good flavour to the rice and also tasted good themselves. The claypot pork was not as good, the pork texture I feel was the wrong type of pork, probably would be better using pork belly, as well as the salted fish was too bony but I quite like the saltiness. The eggplant salted fish was not bad also, but I feel lacking sauce and for this dish the salted fish was not salty enough, therefore I am not sure if there are multiple batches of salted fish in this restaurant. Anyway I still quite enjoy my meal here and price is ok.

   almost 4 years ago

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