JJ Kitchen (JJ Bubble Tea) — Restaurant in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki

I learned of this place by watching someone on Instragram eat here. We went for lunch and I was surprised. This place offers a lot of dishes, but we went for the smorgasbord. I was not disappointed. This place is better than the Chinese food in the mall foodcourt. Yes they're similar dishes, but you can tell these have been made with quality ingredients and haven't been sitting there for hours or days. An example is the sweet and sour pork. The foodcourt ones are usually just the fat or gristle deep fried. The one from JJ Kitchen are pure meat. You also have to try their fried chicken.

All in all, awesome price and awesome quality. I'm definitely coming back for the Dinner smorgasbord as they offer 24 different types of dishes instead of 12 (lunch). I don't care if I live out West. Good food is...

The reason I’m afraid of trying something new even for basic Chinese food was validated tonight. Just wanting two containers of easy, standard, Chinese food for 2 adults and a 7 year old - would not do again. A standard chicken fried rice was so laced with pepper I could not eat it (and I would happily eat medium Thai food , love chilli’s, but overdone white pepper is a different story). So it becomes a completely inedible meal for a 7 year old. The plan was to order something that we would all eat, still ended up making toast. Disappointed. Sweet and sour pork - dry Wonton - dry and squashed and not what you would identify as a wonton.

Nice offer from manager to get something for free when we went next time, there won’t...

On our way to another restaurant in Royal Oak we saw from $14 smorgasbord so we stopped and went in. They had 3 sizes plate or containers $14 $17 and $22 so we grabbed 2 $17 should of checked the food first each dish were either ,dry burnt and veges so mushy or empty um no one looking after the food? Should of asked for a refund anyway hubby already serving his food. I grabbed a few dishes that looked edible but every bite I had to spit it out it tasted so horrible. Well at least we tried...