Rice Rice Baby - Mount Maunganui

Food is delicious and I was fine with the fresh spring rolls on my first two visits but I had a really bad reaction after eating a cooked dish I was advised would be one of the safest for coeliac.

The food was delicious and the staff was so helpful! The fryer has gluten in it so you’ll need to avoid that but everything else is pretty safe. They said most of their items are gluten free and it’s just some of the sauces that contain gluten which are added on the side when served. Because of this, they just swap out sauces when you order something gf and the prep areas are very safe from cross contamination. I wish we were still in the area so I could go back again!

We went twice during our two-day trip there. The chicken pho and crispy pork with ginger rice were good. The pork with sticky rice was special and tasted good. The chicken cracklings were not crispy enough, the prawn and coconut fried rice came in big portion but to me personally I was not a huge fan of the combination.

Always delicious! Prawn fried rice is our go to so moreish! Still yummy but a little chewy was the squid and we love that spicy

Have been wanting to try this place for a while as i’ve been getting recommendations on instagram. it is a very busy restaurant popular with locals. beef pho had nice broth, not too oily, good portion of beef and noodles. creamy chicken curry was very nice. i recommend crispy cauliflower for starters as portions are big and quite filling. i was disappointed with the service though. not once did anyone ask how our food was even though the waiter walked past us many times. he was being very attentive to the table next to us who arrived later. at some point, it was kinda obvious they were ignoring our table.