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Newtons Cafe & Noodle Bar

  • menu
  • Fried Kueh Teow (Chicken with no bean sprouts) – $11.00
  • Roti with Chicken Curry – $9.50
  • Chef Special Spicy Chicken on rice – $12.00
  • Sambal Chicken on rice – $12

  • it’s a sign

Awesome Malaysian food in tucked inside an unassuming lunch bar on Newton Road. Brings back memories of Albert’s Place at Mercury Plaza from many years ago. Well worth a visit.

110 Newton Road, Eden Terrace, Auckland

Mon8:30am – 4pm, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Tue8:30am – 4pm, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Wed8:30am – 4pm, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Thu8:30am – 4pm, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Fri8:30am – 4pm, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Sat11:30am – 3pm, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
SunClosed
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It’s Purple.

  • Purple Fairy

Friday afternoon pick me up, Purple Fairy. As far as I know, no actual fairies, purple or otherwise, were harmed in making this drink. It’s actually purple kumara and dragon fruit. Quite cool. Purple Rain cool. Also tasty.

Yu Cha, 102 Dominion Road, Mount Eden, Auckland

bubbletea #dragonfruit #tea #purplekumara #purpletea #endoftheweek #friday

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Post Badminton Intensive Rehydration

Bull Demon King with Golden Diamond Milk Tea – $7.00
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Mango on Fire – $10.00

Bull Demon King with Golden Diamond Milk Tea and Mango on Fire.

So it turns out that when you go demon hunting as a responsible hunter, you should eat what you catch. Sam and Dean eating burgers and bacon? That’s not beef or pork.

Not sure about the process to turn a demon into tea but the people at Yu Cha have figured out how to turn a nasty old Bull Demon King into a surprisingly nicely sweet milk tea. Who knew? True story. Like Girl Guide biscuits made out of real Girl Guides.

Mango in Fire is essentially mango and dragon fruit with a little added lemon jade at the bottom and salted cream cheese on top.

Yu Cha, 102 Dominion Road, Mount Eden, Auckland

#bubbletea #dragonfruit #tea #smoothie #bulldemonking #goldendiamond#milktea #rehydrateyourself #desserttea

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Post Badminton (mostly) Protein Fix

Beef with Spring Onion Pie
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Pork with Fennel and Chicken with Corn dumplings, pan fried.
Chicken with Spring Onion Pie

Newly opened last week, Beijing Cuisine is in the space most recently occupied by Chongqing Hot Noodles on the corner of Dominion and View Roads.

We had beef and spring onion pie, chicken and spring onion pie, pork and fennel pan fried dumplings and chicken and corn pan fried dumplings.

A nice touch, they advised we could pick two flavours for the pie as a single one is 500gms and then it came out as two separate small pies.

Will be returning to try other things, like their pork chilli caraway dumplings and their chicken buns. Excellent value too.

Beef with Spring Onion Pie – $10/500gms
Chicken with Spring Onion Pie – $12/500gms
Pork with Fennel Dumplings, Pan-fried – L$11 (15 pieces)
Chicken with Corn Dumplings, Pan-fried – L$11 (15 pieces)

 

Beijing Cuisine, 110 Dominion Road, Mount Eden, Auckland

#dumplings #beijingcuisine #newrestaurant #pie #chinesepies #cheapeats#aucklandcheapeats #chinesefood

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Barney Smoothie!

Not really.

Fresh Dragon Fruit Smoothie – $13.00
Menu Page 2
Inside
Menu Page 1
Takeaway Menu

 

 

 

 

 

A new bubble tea place opened a couple of weeks ago and who can resist bubble tea?

This one is Dragon Fruit with Lemon Jade on the bottom and Salted Cream Cheese on top.

Next time I will probably try Bull Demon King With Golden Diamond Milk Tea simply because the name is pretty damn cool.

Yu Cha
102 Dominion Road, Mount Eden, Auckland
#bubbletea #dragonfruit #tea #smoothie #nofoodfear

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Too New For The Menu!

Ensalada Cafe allowed us to taste test their new dish and it was so good! Chicken Inasal, grilled after 4 hours sous-vide. So very good, and definitely worth going in for.

Ensalada Pancit / Bihon Guisado – $19.50
Beef Bulalo – $19.50
Chicken Inasal
Tortang Talong Con Carne – $16.50

Tortang Talong Con Carne – $16.50
Grilled eggplant and minced omelette with green salad & pickled carrots

Ensalada Pancit / Bihon Guisado – $19.50
Pan-fried egg noodles, chicken breast, chicken liver & assorted vegetables

Beef Bulalo – $19.50
Bulalo soup, bone-in-beef shanks, bone marrow, cabbage & bokchoy

 

https://ensalada.co.nz

286 Karangahape Road, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010

Phone:+64 9-302 2155

 

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Snack Attack!!

salted-egg-crab-seaweed-tempura

Salted Egg Crab Seaweed Tempura – (From the back) Sometimes it’s good to go with the grain. The pleasing graininess of the salted egg yolk balances perfectly with our light, crisp tempura batter, created and prepared with all the magic of our kitchens. Your reward is an ocean of flavours – the sweetness of real crab, slightly smoky seaweed, and a rich salted egg finish.

A little bit wordy but tastes damn good.

https://thegoldenduck.co

 

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It’s Always a Good Time at Daikoku!!!

Our chef for the evening
Miso soup and Kirin Ichiban
Appetizer
Salad with Diakoku Dressing
Sauce for Seafood and Beef
Teppan-Yaki Vegetables
Teppan-Yaki Vegetables
Teppan-Yaki Vegetables
Teppan Scallops
Yum-Yum Prawns
Teppan-Yaki Vegetables
Chop-Cop Fried Rice
Teppan Steak
Teppan Steak
Banana Tempura

 

Dinner and a show, with knives and flying food. She wouldn’t throw the rice though.

Not much else to say about Daikoku, food is good, atmosphere is good, never disappoints, fun and entertaining. If you’ve never been, get out there and try it.

https://www.daikoku.co.nz

148 Quay Street,
Auckland C.B.D.
Phone: 09-302-2432
Email: quay@daikoku.co.nz