Paragon - East Tamaki New Zealand

It's good to see another buffet restaurant close to botany. Reasonably priced, the quality of the meat and others were very good. Variety of meats were available. And soft drinks were keep getting replaced with new one so it was nice. And the ice cream, I loved the rum and rasin ice cream! The staff were friendly with nice smile. I would definitely recommend to others.

An early lunch with friends at Paragon in China Town. This was my first time at China Town since it was opened years ago, as I heard a lot of negative feedback about its shops food that dissuaded me from visiting. We had clay pot with dry pork belly Chinese sausage, BBQ pork fried noodles, Hokkin fried rice stir fried Shanghai rice cake; soup was complimentary. Everything was fairly impressive, taking into account the added MSG. My favourite dish was the rice cake well prepared cooked.  (Food 3.5/5; Service 3/5; Ambience 3.5/5)

I come here for dinner and fish head soup noodle is to die for. Ask for fresh chilli sauce to flavour the soup and it's even more tastier. Highly recommended!

Peking duck to die for in East Tamaki<br/ <br/ We absolutely love their peking duck!! Without a doubt the best in Auckland. We come here at least once a month to have it. Today, we arrived at 12pm and it was quiet. We've become regulars here so they knew what we wanted. They serve soup per person before the meal and it's a nice broth, warms the body up. The first course is the standard duck wraps with cucumber/green onion and hoisin sauce. The wraps are not too thick or thin and with the first bite, the duck just melts in your mouth. We wish they would give us more hoisin sauce : the second course is stir fry duck with vegetables wrapped in lettuce. The lettuce is so crispy and there's so much duck! Most places give so little. I decided to give 4.5 as we haven't tried anything else here but they tend to get busy at dinner time so we can only assume it is good. Service is lovely.<br/ <br/ Pictures:<br/ Lettuce cups with stir fry duck and vegetables<br/ Duck slices, flour wraps, cucumber/green onion and hoisin sauce<br/ <br/ For two courses, it is $48 and you cannot beat that price with the amount you get and service in Auckland. We are always left satisfied and super full 2 people). This will always be our favourite peking duck place.

What 3 stars? No way!!! This place is awesome. It's not fancy, but who cares? Order the Peking Duck! It's amazing and huge!!!! Seriously it feeds my family of 3 to the point of being over full and then we bring some home. Love, love, love this place :