Reviews

Overall Total Score
3.4 out of 5
Good | 147 reviews

What lmt6618 likes about The Sands:
A simple hot pot restaurant offering either an individual hot pot (as per picture) or pick match from a variety soup toppings by ticking from a prepared order form. A clean bright atmosphere setup. Food is individually prepared by chef served by his partner. I had spicy noodle pork trotter soup (picture in menu). It had a thin layer of chili oil dried chili cuttings with a surprising 2 servings of small deep fried po... View all feedback. What Angélique Elbracht doesn't like about The Sands:
This place is just awful. We went here for lunch and my son found bugs in his soup. We returned it to the kitchen and were not offered a new one or our money back. When we left, we were told they must have gotten into the soup because he had added vinegar and the bugs get into the vinegar bottles when they leave them outside for cleaning?!?! So clearly it was my son's fault for adding vinegar. The rest of our meals w... View all feedback.

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Zomato
2.8 ★ from 11 reviews
Diogo
15.09.2024 - 17:59

I love Chinese food, but quit often I go to some restaurants that cook it too greasy. That was possibly the only mistake from The Sands when I had lunch there....

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15.09.2024 - 17:59

Sorry wont be going here again..hygene is a problem here...food is ok..but not sure how the kitchen standards will be...there is a fish tank on the entrance...w...

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Thanya
15.09.2024 - 17:59

The food was tasty but this place really need to improve on the cleanliness of the restaurant, good food will be nothing without a good environment.

Sheena
15.09.2024 - 17:59

We came here one night on a coupon deal for three courses of peking duck! The photos on the deal website made the restaurant look quite nice as well as the food...

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Mark
15.09.2024 - 17:59

What a mistake, we thought we would try this place, hadn't been here since the original owmers sold...we were the only three in the restaurant the waiter never...

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Int Restaurants
3.5 ★ from 111 reviews
Emma
12.01.2024 - 13:58

Great dumplings and spring rolls. Also had stir fry rice with chicken, beef stir fry rice noodles, tofu on rice. All the food was great. We had takeaway and got...

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Diogo
12.01.2024 - 13:58

I love Chinese food, but quit often I go to some restaurants that cook it too greasy.<br/ <br/ That was possibly the only mistake from The Sands when I had lunc...

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Sheena
12.01.2024 - 13:58

We came here one night on a coupon deal for three courses of peking duck! The photos on the deal website made the restaurant look quite nice as well as the food...

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Emily
12.01.2024 - 13:58

My boyfriend and I went there with a voucher. And what a deal it was! We were given so much food, and it was beautifully presented. The waitresses were very fri...

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Kat
12.01.2024 - 13:58

Went to this place a couple of weeks ago with a deal voucher. Overall we had a really nice experience here. The soup and the dessert were both dishes that we ha...

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Yelp
3.5 ★ from 2 reviews
Eddie
15.09.2024 - 17:59

Not one of the best Asian restaurants I have been to around Auckland, but then also not the worst. Is nothing flash, which in someways is how I like it at times...

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AB
15.09.2024 - 17:59

A really nice chinese restaurant with a wide variety of sizzling options. Try the fish and rice which comes around $14 something n you'll go again. The good thi...

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Google
3.5 ★ from 50 reviews
Tripadvisor
3.6 ★ from 5 reviews
Restaurantguru
3.1 ★ from 36 reviews

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