Empress Garden Restaurant is truly one of the premier Chinese restauants in Auckland, and has a fearsome reputation to match! When you speak of Empress Garden Restaurant, you tend to talk about its signature dish of Peking Duck - accompanied with a fair bit of stomach rumbling and longing looks.
Empress Garden Restaurant really makes you feel like you’re in a beloved relative's home in Chinatown – the restaurant is warmly decorated and is divided into a variety of sections and rooms.
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Chinese cuisine
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BYO
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For some reason Yum Cha seems to be a Sunday lunch activity. As it was a Sunday afternoon we got amongst. We ordered a pile of dumplings, a couple of noodle dishes, some buns and a red bean pancake. The food arrived promptly and was promptly eaten. Everyone rolled away from the table satisfied and plans were made to do it again the following week!
Yum! When you head to Empress Garden, you absolutely must eat their duck. And I mean that in the kindest possible way. They do the most amazing duck meat pancakes, along with a wide range of other dishes of course. This is what one would call up-market Chinese food, at one time they were judged the best in Auckland (so I hear). However, with so much competition around these days it’s hard to say who rightly deserves that title.