In Auckland? Something Asian.... we have some fantastic restaurants and food courts for everything from Chinese/Thai/Malaysian/Korean/Vietnamese/Indian and much more beside.... my favourite restaurant is Industry Zen, a Japanese restaurant on Customs Street West, behind the Viaduct. Go for their lunchtime special.Say you had a friend who has landed in NZ for the very first time. What would you suggest their first NZ meal to be? What food items would you advise them to expect on typical restaurant menus?
Ha ha. I love it how everybody has different ideas about what is good or not depending on what they are used to.Jimaba said:Fish and Chips here are fantastic, I had never really had snapper before coming here and am absolutely hooked on it now. When my family comes to visit I always insist going to burger fuel at least once as well. It's like a gourmet hamburger shop, and I had never seen anything like it in the south.
Also...egg on your burger? Better than you'd expect...
There's a place in Auckland called Miro's Seafood, and it's Miro and his wife that own/run the place. He goes every morning to the fish markets and buys it fresh and you get to pick which fillets you want before he batters them and fries them. Absolutely fantastic.Ha ha. I love it how everybody has different ideas about what is good or not depending on what they are used to.
Makes for good conversation at work since it is multi-national
Fish & chips here - good ???
You must be kidding. They are awful.
Only found one decent battered fish so far in Wellington and surrounds and that was in a restaurant not a fish & chip shop. Unfortunately the chips weren't chips but small roast potatoes. Very good but not proper chips.........well what I would call proper chips anyway.
Yet to find a fish & chip shop that actually uses proper fish batter and batters fresh fish fillets and fries them to order or one that actually uses potatoes to make chips and cooks them fresh. So far it's all been frozen or pre-prepared McCain rubbish.
If I had the money and time it would be the ideal business to open up here. Yummy English fish & chips, with gravy & mushy peas. Probably the only thing I crave since arriving.
Not tried Burger Fuel yet. Walked past one with my toddler the other day and saw the produce n looked very good. Will have to visit soon.
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Oh that sounds wonderful!!!Jimaba said:There's a place in Auckland called Miro's Seafood, and it's Miro and his wife that own/run the place. He goes every morning to the fish markets and buys it fresh and you get to pick which fillets you want before he batters them and fries them. Absolutely fantastic.
Edit: Only link I could find: http://www.zenbu.co.nz/entry/1177652-miros-seafood
Ha ha. I love it how everybody has different ideas about what is good or not depending on what they are used to.
Makes for good conversation at work since it is multi-national
Fish & chips here - good ???
You must be kidding. They are awful.
Only found one decent battered fish so far in Wellington and surrounds and that was in a restaurant not a fish & chip shop. Unfortunately the chips weren't chips but small roast potatoes. Very good but not proper chips.........well what I would call proper chips anyway.
Yet to find a fish & chip shop that actually uses proper fish batter and batters fresh fish fillets and fries them to order or one that actually uses potatoes to make chips and cooks them fresh. So far it's all been frozen or pre-prepared McCain rubbish.
If I had the money and time it would be the ideal business to open up here. Yummy English fish & chips, with gravy & mushy peas. Probably the only thing I crave since arriving.
Not tried Burger Fuel yet. Walked past one with my toddler the other day and saw the produce n looked very good. Will have to visit soon.
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Topcat- That could be the one that my hubby was taken to years ago, he could never remember the exact location, but he raved about it & wanted to take me there....and try our local fish and chip shop too... in a village called Kaiaua. It's next to the 'Bay View Hotel', and a famous stopping off place for bikers on their drive down the coast. My favourite fish is Tarahiki - I find it a bit more delicate than snapper. Hubby loves John Dory.
I must say I prefer the fish and chips in NZ to that in the UK - even the cod tastes different. All a matter of taste, eh?