Shanghai Kitchen - Days Bay New Zealand

Great Shanghai food!!Will definitely go back again! The xiao long bao was delicious! Very authentic. My partner and I really enjoyed our meal.

Speaking as a native Chinese, many of their dishes are the best I've ever had outside China. This is one of the very few, if not the only Chinese restaurants here that offers a taste of Shanghai regional home-style cooking. <br/ <br/ This definitely isn't the place for someone who is expecting Chinese-takeaways. <br/ <br/ Many of their dishes demand freshest ingredients and a highly skilled cook. Many of my European friends have never heard of these dishes, which are vastly different from the ubiquitous Cantonese food. Although I could be referring to the wrong thing, as real Cantonese food are also hard to come by. <br/ <br/ I've been to this little place many times. The ambience has room to improve but it's very tidy and you can't have everything and still expect it to be so affordable! They offer a few Cantonese dishes to cater for probably some locals customers, but I'll stick to their Shanghainese cooking which is obviously the chef/owner's forte!

We are regular eaters at this place, love the food there, service has always been prompt and have never had to wait for service...need to book a table though especially on a Friday night, can boy wine too...Jennie t

Friendly service. Wide range of food on the menu. Although was disappointed that they had run out of pan fried dumplings. We ordered pork buns instead but then they ended up bringing us steamed pork dumplings, so there was a bit of confusion. Although they ended up being really yum! Our mains were good too although the sweet and sour pork was not very crispy. Medium price range our bill for 2 people for appetisers, mains and Chinese tea was $60. Would return and hopefully get to try the pan fried dumplings and pork buns!

Came here in a cold weekdays night with friends.  Good to see that they have the heater on and we sat by it.  The waitress was friends and settled us down quickly.  We ordered the Hot and Sour Soup and indicated not too sour.  The soup was great with the right amount of vinegar but a bit too peppery for me, but it was enjoyable.  We have ordered the Shanghai Steam Dumplings given its Shanghai Kitchen.  The Dumplings was OK with good amount of soup within the wrapping.  A Pork Belly with Garlic cold dish also to start which was covered with minced garlic, yum.  Mains were Sweet and Sour Pork, Salt and Pepper Pork and Stir Fried Tofu.  All these 3 dishes were good but not the best that I have tried.  A bit disappointed on the Salt and Pepper Pork as it was served with finely diced capsicum rather than chilies.  Overall it was a good meal.  A place not to be missed for Chinese in Petone.