Order Japanese Food in Forest Hill

A small food place in the neighbourhood of Flat Bush. Serves nice steamed buns and hot soy milk. Price is reasonable and portion is decent. The guy at the counter is super friendly too!

Popped in for a morning tea as a break whilst merchandising in The Warehouse next door. Had a lemon curd muffin and medium mocha. The muffin was fantastic, no hunting for the lemon curd it was beautiful and the coffee was great too. Decently priced and such lovely friendly staff. I wish there were more of these in Tauranga.

Nice kebab. Disappointing service. Myself and 93 year old mother waited 15+ minutes to place our order as we were ignored while pre-ordered foods (yet to be collected) were prioritised. The place was empty (2.15 pm), but a few people came in to collect food. Our order of 1 x tea, 1 x black coffee and 1 x kebab arrived 25 mins later.. 35+ mins wait in a non aircon cafe is never worth it (outside temp 36c). Total cost $31.50. (1 x Combination kebab (salad only) .. 1 x mug tea with bag floating inside plus 1 mug black coffee). Not quite sure how this adds up as the Kebab is $16.50 + 50c sauce.. making the 2 x hot drinks $7 each? Good takeaway food but not a Cafe.

Small and quaint Chinese breakfast shop on Dominion Road, Balmoral. Can be easily missed so one you pass KFC and the big statue of the park you're almost there. The shop offers a large variety of Chinese breakfast/brunch items at low prices. The shop is so popular, getting a table can be hard as seating is limited even though they have upstairs seating but this is also very limited. Food can take a tad longer to come out as everything is made to order. The porridge and rice rolls are comforting and filling, and the pancakes and fried breads are crispy and crunchy.

A little find in Patterson Lakes, a cafe style shop. The food was amazing, a variety of Vietnamese dishes & Banh mi. They also offer all day breakfast, bacon and egg rolls and apparently their coffee is really good. I only didn’t give 5 stars as there was no vegetarian Banh mi. Staff were lovely and friendly and service quick.

The food was delicious but the quantity was quite disappointing for the prices. Tables, cutlery, glasses were very clean and faultless. Very chilled tap water was also a plus. The timing and sequence for the delivery of the main dishes were unsatisfactory, though. It just took too long even when the restaurant was almost empty and didn’t seem to have many take-away orders, either. Service over all was nothing special. I wouldn’t go back.