Star Seafood - East Tamaki New Zealand

Excellent Cantonese food! Didn’t expect everything to be so good, but it really was. Big portions but without skimping on quality everything was done well except for maybe the pork belly/taro, which was a bit underwhelming. <br/ <br/ Duck pancakes was a highlight, with homemade pancakes that were delightfully chewy. Salted duck egg shrimp balls were super egg y and satisfying! Big fan overall

I didn't used to like this place so stopped coming here, but recently it's gotten a lot nicer. Even though the staff still get feisty, the quality of the dishes offsets this. Today we ordered chasiu pastries 叉烧酥, deep fried taro dumpling 芋头角, cow reticulum 牛肚, white sugar cake 白糖糕, steamed prawn vermicilli roll 虾肠粉, chicken feet 凤爪, and egg tart 蛋挞. The best part about these dishes were their pastry, it's fresh, crispy, light, fluffy, and not at all oily, which is hard to find in many yumcha places. Their white sugar cake and the vermicilli part of the vermicilli roll were springy and not mushy, also a hard find. The flavours, needless to say, were authentic and everything was well seasoned. The bill came to be $50, so pretty good pricing as well.

Love this little hidden spot locked away behind the foodcourt. Be warned, it still gets busy. To be honest, we prefer this yum cha over the the other neighbouring places in botany. We in particular enjoy their Lo Mai Gai glutinous rice theirs is white unlike brown in the other yum cha places. Also prefer it’s xiao Mai pork dumplings over other places.

This rating is for the durian tarts only as we went there specifically to purchase them to go. Their durian tarts are so good even when they are no longer warm.

Pretty good crayfish and roste duck. Crayfish was alive and still very fresh when it cooked. Noodles were pretty flavourful too, staff more friendly than morning yumcha time.