Fong Mei Cafe - East Tamaki New Zealand

Been there since 2007 and I tried it again yesterday. The tastes are still good enough!

I like the big portions of food, good for sharing. The food tasted fresh and not oily at all (unlike many Chinese restaurants . The restaurant is also well maintained and clean. Good customer service with friendly staff. The Shanghainese stir fry noodles pork with tomato rice are my favourite here. : Recommended.

This place looks like another standard Chinese food place in the Meadowland area, but would definitely recommend the food. There's a bit of a language barrier if you don't speak Chinese but usually just pointing at the relevant dishes on the menu works well. Food is always ready quickly and tasted great every time I've been. The dishes can be on the more expensive side compared to other food places in the area, but is worth it for the portion size. They're good sizes for sharing and if you're not a big eater you could easily get two meals out of one dish, or share one dish between two people.

Been coming to Fongmei for 10+ years! Never disappoints, Hungover or not! Well priced and big portions. Usually get the satay beef noodles coz thats bomb!

Fong Mei Cafe has been the go to Chinese takeaway of my household for the past few years and has provided food for many gatherings between family and friends for good reason.<br/ <br/ My personal favorite is the very addicting Salt Pepper Chicken (though I think this has been replaced by pork chops on the latest menu). It is a deep fried dish seasoned in spring onions, chilli and garlic. The Braised Fish with Tofu is also very enjoyable. It isn 't as crispy or as flavorful as the aforementioned deep fry but brings a different kind of synergy instead. Each component of the dish works harmoniously with the next from the fish fillet to the thick skinned tofu to the veges and mushrooms making for a well rounded choice. Other sharing meat options I 've tried are Sweet Sour Pork perfectly fine but not particularly memorable and Beef/Chicken in Black Bean Sauce which would be one of the better (albeit oilier) Black Bean dishes I 've tried.<br/ <br/ As far as noodles go, the Fried Egg Noodles with Chicken is another favorite. There are few things more satisfying than the initial crunch of the fried noodles but everything else on the plate like the chicken itself and Kai Lan carry their weight by way of pleasant flavors and textures. I also thoroughly enjoy the Flat Rice Noodles with Fried Beef. It is your stereotypical 'magic wok ' dish mixing flavors from onion, spring onion, beef, soy sauce and those from the wok itself. The fried rice dishes on the other hand are not as great. The Yang Chow Fried Rice is bland a forgettable (though not bad per se) and the Hokkien version (covered in gravy) while faring a bit better was also not impactful enough for my tastes.<br/ <br/ The restaurant itself is quite clean but the service is what you would expect from a Chinese takeaway. The order takers have very limited English (though enough to get by) but the manager (lady with short hair who mans the register) will give you a different experience each time ranging from courteous professionalism to mild indifference to the cold shoulder.<br/ <br/ To me, Fong Mei Cafe fills the niche of Chinese takeaway and does what it does very well. There isn 't much else to comment on other than outside of unforeseen circumstances, I can 't see it falling out of favor in my books any time soon.<br/