Hanoi Eatery — Restaurant in Waitematā

Some of the best and homiest Vietnamese food you'll try in Auckland. I have been going to Hanoi Eatery since 2018 (when it used to be called Hanoi Corner). They have consistently been making great food for all those years and still continue to do so.

My go-to order here is the Rare Beef Pho, Egg Banh Mi and the Soy milk with grass jelly.

The Pho portions here are very generous, giving you enough that you may have to share with a friend. The bowl comes with lots of that clean but beefy broth. The Egg Banh mi trumps all the Banh mi i've ever had in Auckland. The omelette is soft, salted just right and goes so well with the buttered baguette. The pickled veges pairs well with the egg and the coriander is a must! For $3.50, the Soy milk with grass jelly is actually such a treasure. The soy milk is definitely an asian soy milk - not like the ones you get in the supermarket - so its more soy forward which i enjoy. I never liked grass jelly before but in this drink it works so well.

The rice dishes here are also great. They give you lots of vege and a generous amount of meat. I always order too much food but somehow it disappears all too quickly because its so good. Think you'd be pleased with anything...

Let's start with the good- I've had their noodle soups and banh mi- great flavour and value. Now, the bad- also ordered their fish rice (com) dish today and it was one of the worst dishes I have ever had. The fish must have been sitting in the freezer for years and had been defrosted at max power in the microwave. At first bite, I thought this might have been a dish that was supposed to be made with dried fish/jerky. I was mistaken- this was just the oldest, toughest, most freezer-burnt fish I have ever been served in my life. I hate writing reviews like this, but when you have such low turnover of a dish, that you resort to using expired ingredients, maybe it is best to just remove it from the menu or tell the customer that you don't have the ingredients to make it. Absolutely unbelievable. As I write this, my stomach feels like I have a rock sitting in it. My regret is that we should have said something to the staff instead of tossing the dish. One extra star for the noodles. Advice- just stick to the popular noodle soups and banh mi, or you might be eating 7 year old frozen fish jerky dug out from the depths of...

Located in a diverse food court that is now busy at lunch time (as my friend tells me, there’s huge turnover here especially during Covid). Hanoi Eatery is definitely a standout restaurant for me. I had the bun cha hanoi (pork) and my friend had the fried fish noodle soup. My bun cha was extremely tasty, there were two decent pork meatballs and lots of grilled pork bits, they also gave me a decent portion of rice noodles/greens and the nuoc Cham was super tasty. Great value/taste dish, this is also the BEST bun cha I’ve had in NZ and I don’t even like pork (haha). It doesn’t have a strong pork taste if that makes sense.

My friends fish soup was comforting on a windy day but lacked the generosity of the fish to noodle ratio compared to my pork to noodle ratio. I probably wouldn’t order the noodle soup again but would love to try their pho which I can imagine it to be tasty. Again, the bun cha was fantastic ! The only downside is they don’t accept credit cards so come prepared with cash...