Noodle Canteen - Taupo

We did a quick check online and found this Chinese restaurant nearby to where we stay. Ordered some rice vermicelli soup with roast duck, pork dumpling, broccoli stir fried with beef and a bbq pork bun. The taste is normal and portion is alright for 2-3pax. The rice vermicelli is quite nice at the first taste but subsequently the Saltiness double up. Probably due to the pickled vegetable added 雪菜 , where this dish is a very typical Cantonese noodle. The stir fried broccoli with beef is normal and we thought the beef served would be better as we are in NZ, we were wrong as the meat added too much tenderizer, which made the meat taste artificial. The dumpling looks more like those frozen pack purchase from supermarket. But our kiddo loves the bbq pork bun where she finished up the whole bun which we unable to take a photo afterwards . The fragrant smell of the steamed bun is quite nice, and the bbq meat is kinda of sweet typical char siew and the meat is in huge chucks. Staff are friendly and helpful though, probably because we speak Cantonese and mandarin with them. We spent $50 NZD here for all the dishes.

We goggle this place and have it a try. We ordered 3 dishes for 2 person, which cost $58. The soup taste good, except they use dory fish, which become soft when soak inside the soup for a long time, and make the fish taste soggy. Give it a 3 star. The 古老肉 is average, the batter is a bit thick and you can taste the flavour only at the exterior, the meat inside is not that tasty. Give it a 3-star. The 辣子鸡 taste good, and it will taste even better if they deep fried the chicken, rather than simply stir fried. I give it a 4 star.

请不要用这样的水准说是中华料理，不正宗，而且超随便，完全没有诚意。这家餐厅的好评都是骗回来的吗？ Bad experience! This is my first time leaving a bad review like this. The restaurant had many good reviews so we decided to go in. We ordered 3 dishes and they all tasted really disappointed! They don't deserve 4 stars restaurant at all. They are very unprofessional, no passion on making food! They are simply just adding this and that to pretend to be Chinese dishes. This is absolutely not the chinese food taste like. Not even close to the pictures they shown on menu! (Perhaps they just want to make money and they think foreigners can't recognise the Chinese food taste like. Also, I feel concerned about the hygienic problem as well since there are more than one bug in our noodle soup. And the guy cleaning the plates is very rough. All of these things come together just make this restaurant unprofessional or not even normal.

Uncooked raw pork dumpling is cool inside, and vegetable is not fresh, but salty. Never recommend.

Never order from this place. Got the Honey chicken noodles, been running out both ends all day. Never had a bad experience in my life. Not only did it flush my insides, a couple of my friends have also had the same outcome. Not happy at all