Mr Jis Kitchen 老季私房菜 — Restaurant in North Island

My friend and I came here for dinner tonight and were super impressed!

The crispy tofu is so beautifully crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. I don't know how they do it but it's incredible!

I recommend the entrée crispy tofu with peanut satay sauce in particular.

For a main, my friend had orange beef and absolutely raved about how amazing and flavoursome it was. I had crispy tofu with sweet chilli sauce for my main (mostly because the crispy tofu entrée was so good!)

When I had eaten about half of my main (the portions are very generous), I glanced at the waitress for about a second and somehow she knew I wanted a takeaway box so brought one over! Not only was I given a takeaway box, as if my mind was read, she also brought me a little takeaway pottle of sweet chilli sauce as well so I could enjoy my takeaway tofu as it was meant to be.

I had a funny moment at the counter when I asked the best way to reheat my remaining crispy tofu, as I was worried it would go soggy in the fridge. She said "I'm not going to lie to you, it will go soggy" 😂 but recommended I reheat it in my airfryer, in an attempt to re-crisp it. I appreciated the honesty. Sometimes takeaway leftovers are better the next day and sometimes food is much better eaten at the time. Worth a shot though!

I will definitely be back. It's such an extensive menu, there's so many more dishes I...

We ordered on Delivereasy and the food was delivered right on the estimated time. Loved everything, large serving sizes. Mapo tofu: holy wow the tofu is so silken, the sauce had really good bean flavour, we got mild but the spice will build up if you eat nothing but the tofu. So so so very nice, would be perfect with rice. Hofun: yummy, large pieces of meat and veges, very flavour. Green bean: prominent garlic flavour with actual garlic slices, very flavour, a little salty so do have it with some rice. Delicious. Cheese and crab dumpling: these are fried dumpling with sweet n sour sauce. Very interesting mix, more cheese flavour than crab, good in small amounts otherwise the cheese richness will get you. I liked it. Shredded pork and black bean sauce pancakes: the pancakes are very thin bing, and they are cooked with two pieces stuck together so you have to peel them apart gently. The pork filling has very good flavour, and the crispy somethings (potato?) were nice too. I personally would have liked some acidity amongst the richness. This bing is similar to a family traditional dish of mine, but we have more filling variety.

Would recommend rice with these dishes. They were yummy scrummy and heartily flavoured, with black bean a highlight of most dishes we chose. Large serving size. Feels very authentic...

Booked for a party of 20 - 24 . Arrived between 6pm - 6 30pm. After an hour my daughter and myself kept asking when were we going to have our orders taken? Another 25 minutes later we finally get to order but prior to this ,we were noticing that patrons arriving after us were being seated served and food delivered before our group. Staff were definitely under pressure and no doubt the cook but it's not good when my family get up and apologised that they were leaving because service was absolutely disgusting. Our children were so hungry that not even their orders were taken and also waited for over an hour and a half. The only positive thing was food was tasty once it arrived to the table and prices were pretty fair. However tables need to be cleared and wiped down properly as presentation showed smudges from foods and drinks still smudged on tables and rotating glass tables. One particular staff member also needed to have his attitude towards his service put in check. Had to confront him regarding his attitude when asked what was happening with 30 of us waiting to order. Wont be recommending to hold another family dinner there again as they simply cannot meet...