Auckland restaurants - help

[xwhatsit]

Thank you all for your recommendations...
I will admit I am confused. In Bangkok in the Chinese restaurants, they served a really yummy dish called Hong Kong Beef. Yes these were proper Chinese restaurants run by Chinese with Chinese chefs.... I have been looking for recipes or restaurants here who have this dish... no luck. Anyone know what I am referring to?

Can you describe the dish? I'll quiz Cecilia today.

[Dilligaf]

gee a hard one... okay I'll give it my best shot.

Beef is in thinner steak sized pieces - i.e. not in strips like stir fry.
Taste is sweet along the lines of sweet and sour but not... helpful? hahha not peppery though having said that the sauce colour was more along the lines of the reddish sweet and sour sauces you see, although a richer colour.
All the times I've had it in different restaurants, it came served on its own with no vegetables or nuts or noodles served as an accompaniment.
Hmm, can't think of anything else to describe it other than yummy

[vifferman]

Best Chinese in Auckland is Empress Garden on Jervois Rd, Herne Bay - always full of Chinese which is a good sign. Great food and they have Peking duck 09 376 5550

That's what I was going to recommend!
Where I used to work, we had quite a few Chinese people, and one of the business lunches we had they took us there, where we had Peking Duck (all 5 courses, or whatever it is).

[xwhatsit]

gee a hard one... okay I'll give it my best shot.

Beef is in thinner steak sized pieces - i.e. not in strips like stir fry.
Taste is sweet along the lines of sweet and sour but not... helpful? hahha not peppery though having said that the sauce colour was more along the lines of the reddish sweet and sour sauces you see, although a richer colour.
All the times I've had it in different restaurants, it came served on its own with no vegetables or nuts or noodles served as an accompaniment.
Hmm, can't think of anything else to describe it other than yummy

Hahah, I'll submit that to Miss X and see what she comes up with. I asked her about `Hong Kong Beef' but she laughed and said, `I'm from Hong Kong -- do you think in Hong Kong we'd refer to beef as Hong Kong Beef? That would be like saying "I'm going to go pick up some Chinese food,"' which I suppose is a fair point lol.

As a side note, that very Honky restaurant on Wellesley St is called `Home Town', and the sign is written in Traditional that says `Home Town' as well.

[SARGE]

Mate, you must be going to the wrong places, bit surprising given where you live. Some of the Chinese restaurants here nowadays are pretty authentic,

but they all serve Fush n Chups mate

[Leong]

Hahah, I'll submit that to Miss X and see what she comes up with. I asked her about `Hong Kong Beef' but she laughed and said, `I'm from Hong Kong -- do you think in Hong Kong we'd refer to beef as Hong Kong Beef? That would be like saying "I'm going to go pick up some Chinese food,"' which I suppose is a fair point lol.

My wife laughs everytime she sees "Singapore Fried Noodles" on the menu. They just don't do a curry flavoured noodles in Singapore!!

but they all serve Fush n Chups mate

Yeh, some do. The Welcome cafe I mentioned do fush n chups as well, but that is to cater for the young ones, doesn't mean the real chinese food isn't authentic tho!!