This Chinese restaurant has taken me by surprise. Wasn’t expecting much from Christchurch (as I’m from Auckland) but this Cantonese style Chinese restaurant is quite tasty and portion size is reasonable. We had Peking duck with pancake, chicken cashewnuts, seafood tofu hotpot and garlic sautéed beans. To top off the evening we were given complimentary mung bean pudding. Walked out with a full happy tummy 😋
After having local food for 10 days. We are craving for Chinese food. We manage to try this restaurant visited by many Chinese living in Christchurch. It is Hongkong style food.
Pickled duck wings.
Steam blue cod fish.
Ginger and spring onion Venison hot plate.
Crispy skin Peking duck.
Steamed oyster with vermicelli.
All cooked to perfection and taste like food eaten in Hongkong.
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Food : 5/5
Service : 4/5
Price : $$$
Place : 3/5
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Halal
Rest : North & South Gourmet
Location : Christchurch
City : New Zealand
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Honey chicken is yum! Like the fact they we've hot green tea, helps to cleanse between foods. Can get a little rowdy during the busier times, but all places can.
This place makes good food, but portion sizes are smaller than a few other Chinese Restaurants that we frequent. Also prices are a little higher. But They still do good food and I can recommend. Friendly staff and good service.
We went here for a late dinner on Monday night. We went for their set menu ( $27 pp ) and also had their steamed blue cod fish for $50. All the foods were great. We enjoyed the fish, their soup and fried rice were really good too. Service was efficient and staffs were welcoming. Will def come back. :)
Nice food. A bit expensive considering the quantity of food provided. The restaurant has a good atmosphere and the staff were friendly as well. There was a delay in getting my order but the staff apologized for it.
Hands down the best Chinese in Christchurch! We would go here/have takeaways once a fortnight! It's fresh! The staff and lovely and the portions are great!
Peking duck is definately worth the price and is something different to add to your meal
Good dumplings, fast service, friendly staff and heaps of seating. This place is good for those BYO nights out, especially if you work around the Addington area.
Finally tried their version of dimsum/yumcha, food & service were average overall. The juicy pork bun, a.k.a Xiao Long Bao小龙包 were disappointing. Hubby & I regretted ordering two dishes of them hahaha...They made good salted fish & chicken fried rice though :)
Was considered by the Chinese community as the best dim sim spot in Christchurch, which served fresh, authentic Cantonese food. Service is also very friendly for Chinese restaurant standards. The mains (dinner menu) had always been a tier below their dim sim, but were still solid overall. Rumour has it that the owner recently sold this restaurant, and the quality has dropped. I however cannot taste a difference, and still consider this place to be a great dim sim spot.
Absolutely amazing! Service is great, food is the best yum cha in Christchurch! We regularly go there. Staff are friendly and fantastic! If you haven't tried, you should!
I have tried out a lot of yum Cha places in Christchurch, including new open madam kwong's kitchen. I will have to say yum Cha here is the most delicious and best value for money.
Had a great time there a while ago, we had a group of about 6 people and ordered a huge variety of food. All the dishes were pretty good, and we had a great time playing with the lazy-susan table. I somehow managed to order 3 cups of tea (no idea how) but it was all rather funny.
Been here many times - don't expect too much in terms of customer service. While it is understandable that the restaurant gets very busy, some of the staff make no effort to hide their frustration and can sometimes be quite rude. However, it must be said that the dimsum/yumcha here is consistently great and surpasses other yumcha places in Christchurch. I particularly enjoy the deep-fried pumpkin pancakes. Dinner is also great, especially the Peking duck!
Expect good food, but not great service.
I have learned not to expect too much service wise from this wee gem but will keep going back because the food is (in my experience) wonderful. Yum Cha is the best in Chch (methinks they may have been lucky enough to get the chef of Asha when it closed - familiar tastes there!) and I will keep coming back here. I have also never been disappointed with their evening meals and we have eaten there for a couple of years now (since they reopened after the fire). I also occasionally stop in and get a takeaway. Highly recommend.
To begin with, when I made my booking, I explained that one in our party was vegan. I was told it wouldn't be a problem and she explained they could make a number of their dishes suitable for vegan. They did exactly that. It was not a problem at all and they were very helpful. Very quick service. Very friendly staff. Huge selection. Very reasonable prices. Looking forward to experiencing the Yum Cha.
Their Yum Chai is one of the best in Christchurch :)
I love their dinner menu too! Expecially their Peking Duck
I have tried all sorts of Yum Cha places in Christchurch and North & South is excellent. Tremendous variety of dishes, cooked to perfection. Staff are very busy, but they are helpful and friendly.
Their A La Carte menu in the evening is also really good. Too many favourite dishes to mention.
Make a reservation, because it gets fully booked out quite often!
I have only tried the Yum Cha here but was very impressed with it. A great range, the only place I've found that does the soup dumplings. Yum Cha has certainly gone downhill in ChCh lately. Foo San isn't what it used to be, Dragon Garden is ok (they do the Chive dumplings really well) but North and South have a high and consistent standard. Well done guys...I'll be back :)
I'm a big fan of yum cha and i really don't know what took me so long to find this gem of a restaurant.
the whole experience is everything it needs to be, tasty, quick service, huge selection of flavours, styles and cooking methods and food that comes to you steaming hot, but tastes at least as good gone cool, (because i always get to many things at once and they only stay hot so long lol)
i would fully recommend booking for the weekend, during the weekdays the menu has pictures of each and every dish, which gets delivered to your table, rather than the cart service. very efficient and very organised.
and don't forget to try some of the sweet dishes, yumm.
Weekend Yum-cha goes OFF! The place is packed (and largely with Chinese - always a good sign for those seeking the authentic experience.) Make sure you book; or expect a wait of 40 or more minutes. The decor harks back to the glory days of The Joyful when on Armagh Street - the emphasis is definitely on eating over ambience!
This is one comprehensive menu - I'd lay special mention with the jellyfish and cucumber - light, fresh and flavorful value at $7. Other highlights include the Beijing Duck pancake, coriander pork dumplings and shrimp sticks. The one fail was the sticky rice - too dry and bland.
In the Christchurch Yum cha stakes this easily trumps the much missed Seafood Restaurant on Kilmore and the rapidly fading star of the Foo San.
Have been looking for a nice chinese place to eat for ages. Taste 3 out of 5, value 5 out of 5, service 4 out of 5. Very nice will go back again. Thanks
Delicious food! Good & sincere service from staff. Well done 👍
I had the hot and sour soup a week ago but tonight I tried the crispy roast pork on rice I bought extra food as I thought the meal would be small I was definitely wrong the pieces of pork were big, juicy and chunky. Tasty, fresh... a good amount of veggies served with it. The hot and sour soup was better this time and had lots of different things in it. And the dumplings have a good amount of filling and flavour and are served hot and fresh. My only down point is the rice was cold and the waiter asked me to pay before I ate. Otherwise yum.. definitely have it again. Oh and I thought the pork might have been served with red sauce... but still yummy. Inconsistent with taste, food temperature and portion size sometimes I get lots of pork other times I get very little, yet the price has gone up... . Sometimes rice is cold sometimes less or more bok choy, please keep it consistent. The bigger the better...
Amazing well priced food. Yummy yum cha! We all love this place and its new location.
Comes highly recommended by me and my family.
Always has been the best dim sum in Christchurch! 👍
Great BBQ Chinese. Now corner of Greers and Wairakei not Lincoln Rd. Had a great BBQ Roast Pork and Honey BBQ Pork. Smaller restaurant than before on Lincoln Rd. Had piece on it in The Press today. Popular and full. It'd pay to book ahead on weekends and end week.
I used to come here a lot for yum cha when this restaurant was still in Addington. Last week I visited this restaurant again in the new location. The shop is quite smaller now but the food still taste the same. Yummy! Apart from the price was quite dear now(like anywhere else). Nothing to complain.
Like the deep fried squid is 12 dollar. I was really surprised to see this price. This is most expensive deep fried squid compared to other Chinese restaurants.
Highly rate the wonton soup was so good and portion was bigger than expected! Food also came out fairly quick. Overall great experience and will definitely pop in again :)
As a Cantonese, I am so glad to find this restaurant. Food is so good and authentic. Taste like home.Much better than Maxim. Good service! Awesome place for Yun Cha. The Cantonese roasted duck and Peking Duck is perfect.
Good yum cha for lunch. Have been to north and south for many years. Always has delicious dim sum at lunch time. Egg tart is always fresh and hot. Prawn dumplings and duck dumplings are delicious. Deep fried squid is also very nice. Egg plant and tofu with black bean source are my favorite too. Highly recommend for lunch.
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I was so excited when I found that North & South opened on Greers Road. As we used to go the original in Addington. And it didn't disappoint. Very beautifully decorated and clean. Staff were very friendly. Food was amazing! The 4 of us were starving so ordered crispy chicken wings for entrée, hot and sour soup medium (the best we have had so far), beef brisket with bean curd sticks (so yummy, just way too much bean curd sticks), steamed blue cod (omg, this was so good) and large white rice. On hindsight, the soup, cod and rice would have been enough as we were way too full, and couldn't finish the food. Spent about $40 per person, but thats cos the Blue cod was expensive. We are definitely coming back. Can't wait to try the dim sum.
Went back today for lunch Dim Sum/Yum Cha. 16/9/2023. The above review was from about a month ago.
4 adults and 1 tween this time. Large quantities, very yummy, fast and friendly service. Food was served very quickly. We ordered
Roast duck porridge which just had duck meat and lots of it, I've never had that before. Usually it's all the bony bits.
Century Egg and pork porridge. Lots of huge chunks of century egg and pork pieces.
Beef ho fun. Very good and not too oily.
Chicken feet, again generous portions
Beef tendons - could have been more tender but still good.
Crispy chicken wings cos my son loved it so much last time, he had to have it again this time
Pork stomach
Xiao Long Pao
Bbq pork buns
Radish cake in XO sauce
Deepfried eggplant
Prawn Chiong Fan
We spent just under $118. Could have maybe ordered a couple of dishes less as we were all way too full.
Restaurant was busy, luckily we booked, as walk in customers had to be turned away. We arrived at 11.45am and left at 1pm. And it was full the whole time.
And we got a $10 off our next visit voucher. Which was a nice surprise.
Next visit we will try the peking duck.
Had tried the roast duck in 2012, and once again in 2022. It is as delicious as it was as before. Loving the food at this place.
After having local food for 10 days. We are craving for Chinese food. We manage to try this restaurant visited by many Chinese living in Christchurch. It is Hongkong style food.
Pickled duck wings.
Steam blue cod fish.
Ginger and spring onion Venison hot plate.
Crispy skin Peking duck.
Steamed oyster with vermicelli.
All cooked to perfection and taste like food eaten in Hongkong.
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Food : 5/5
Service : 4/5
Price : $$$
Place : 3/5
The food was fresh, hot and amazing. It was served promptly and with good grace. Additional food requests were catered for and we all left very full and happy.
15/4/18 - We were regulars here but I gotta say the quality of food has been very Inconsistent lately. Siu Mai was over steamed makes it hard and tough and dry, lotus leaf wrapped glutinous rice was under cooked.. The rice was still hard.., their beef tendons were undercooked... They were hard and tough to eat.
Update came here today (8/5/18), their food was yummier. But the glutinous rice lotus leaf was still a bit understeamed (hard). Service was slow (took 20mins for food to come out) but at least it was yummy
Yum cha for two this morning. 8 tasty dishes. Good choice of food items. 20$ per head. Left full and a few items to take home. Parking on site or off site on side streets. This place gets busy. Also ordinary lunch menu also available.
Left feeling full but not dirty full. Very good food. Seemed authentic. Would go again.
Majority of customers were Chinese which seems like a good sign.
Toilets could have been cleaner, restaurant itself was a bit tired but tables were very clean.
Service was efficient.
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