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The hippest new foodie enclaves are Britomart (the blocks above the train station) and
Federal St (under the Sky Tower), and recent openings have also resurrected and rein-
forced the culinary reputation of Ponsonby. The Wynyard Quarter west of Viaduct Har-
bour and the new City Works Depot on Wellesley St are also up-and-coming areas.
You'll find large supermarkets in most neighbourhoods: there's a particularly handy
consider the Otara Market (
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)
and Avondale Sunday Market (
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)
for
cheap, fresh vegetables and La Cigale (
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)
for fancier fare and local artisan pro-
duce.
AUCKLAND'S MULTICULTURAL MENU
Around 30% of New Zealanders live in Auckland, and the country's biggest city is also the most ethnically di-
verse. With immigration - especially from Asia - has come a more cosmopolitan restaurant scene, and savvy
Auckland foodies (and a few of the city's top chefs) keenly explore central fringe neighbourhoods for authentic
tastes of the city's multicultural present and future.
Head to Dominion Rd in Balmoral - catch bus 258 ($3.40) from stop 7058 near the intersection of Queen St
and Wellesley St - and get off at stop 8418 to be in the centre of Auckland's best Chinese food. Our favourites are
Barilla Dumplings
(571 Dominion Rd, Balmoral; snacks & mains $8-20; 11.30am-midnight) and
Shaolin
Kung Fu Noodle
(636 Dominion Rd, Balmoral; 11.30am-11.30pm Fri-Wed, 5-11.30pm Thu), and
Spicy
Joint
(533 Dominion Rd; mains $10-20; noon-late Wed-Mon, 5pm-late Tue) does excellent Sichuan food.
A few blocks west - catch bus 233 ($3.40) from stop 7022 in Victoria St East to stop 8316 on Sandringham Rd
- for the best of the city's Indian and Sri Lankan restaurants.
Jai Jalaram Khaman
(570 Sandringham Rd,
Sandringham; snacks & mains $7-15; 11.30am-10pm; ) does excellent vegetarian Gujarati food, and, a
few doors away,
7 Siri's
(580 Sandringham Rd, Sandringham; mains $10-15;
11.30am-10pm Wed-Sun,
5-10pm Tue;
) Sri Lankan highlight is the 'lump rice', a prosaically named but very tasty array of curries and
sambal.
At the city's bustling
night markets
(
www.aucklandnightmarket.co.nz
)
- held at a variety of suburban loca-
tions from Thursday to Saturday - around 80 ethnic food stalls offer cuisine from Argentina and Samoa, to Hun-
gary and Turkey. Most convenient for travellers is the Onehunga market on a Thursday night. Catch a train
($4.50) from Britomart to Onehunga and walk around 650m to the Dress-Smart Outlet Shopping Centre.
If you're in town in late-March, the Auckland International Cultural Festival (
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)
offers a very tasty
peek into the city's ethnically diverse future, and, online,
Cheap Eats
(
www.cheapeats.co.nz
)
scours Auckland
for the city's best ethnic food for under $20.
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