Tony’s Buller Cafe Chinese takeaway — Restaurant in South Island

Veggies were cooked well and fresh. The sauce on all our dishes was very bland (I asked for chili sauce) and not what I expect from Chinese cuisine. The sweet and sour fish was a whole fillet fried then chopped up and put in a weird sweet sauce but all the batter was falling off and soggy. Couldn't eat it. The spring rolls had mince beef in them and were greasy, again really bland and lacked the freshness you'd expect. I regret spending $50 there. The prawns and cashews were generous to be fair, just the sauces needed work. Also one dish said it came with rice but we didn't...

Compared to other Chinese takeaways, this place is well behind in food quality. Definately a hit & miss, some days you get a good fresh meal, other days not so. Even I can make Chicken & Corn Soup far better & tastier...without the peas/carrots & with proper chicken meat! Way overpriced for what you get! As for cleanliness, the dust/dirt piled up underneath the counter has obviously been there a long time, same with the upper walls of the fish & chip shop. This place could do so much better with some effort. It used to be the best fish & chip shop in town for...

Appalling quality I've be to this restaurant twice now once for fish and chips and just now for a wonton soup the burger buns are tiny the chips they gave me looked as if they had been scraped from the bottom of the deep fryer and now the wonton soup!! It looks like they have used to minute noodles gave 1 broccoli and have it in what appears to be the water from the noodles. If you want a good feed I'd highly recommend you stay clear of this place horrendous quality and grubby store will not be going back and will be letting as much people know...