Orange House Restaurant Menu

Orange House Restaurant is an Upper Riccarton Chinese restaurant with an unusually broad menu for both dining in and ordering at home. The Auburn Avenue kitchen trades through lunch and dinner on most days, with pickup and delivery extending the service beyond the dining room. Rather than narrowing itself to a handful of familiar takeaways, it covers cold appetisers, roast meats, soups, wok dishes, rice plates and several styles of noodle.

The snack section is a useful introduction to that range. Deep-fried pork or chicken wontons and vegetarian spring rolls provide crisp, familiar starters, while boiled pork-and-cabbage dumplings offer a softer contrast. Cold pork belly with garlic, chilli oil and spring onion brings more intensity, and spicy beef shin or chilled chicken with chilli sauce shows that the kitchen is equally comfortable with appetisers designed to be shared slowly at the table.

Main dishes move confidently between Cantonese standards and the cumin, chilli and braising flavours associated with northern and inland Chinese cooking. Hainan chicken can be ordered as a whole dish or over rice, while barbecue pork, stewed duck and sweet-and-sour pork cover several different preparations. Spicy lamb with cumin, beef brisket stewed with potatoes, chicken knuckles with garlic and eggplant with potatoes and green beans give adventurous diners plenty beyond the usual combination plate.

Rice and noodles make the menu practical for smaller orders without reducing its variety. Yangzhou fried rice combines prawns and barbecue pork, Chinese-sausage fried rice adds a deeper savoury note, and beef ho fun provides broad rice noodles with wok-seared flavour. Singapore-style rice noodles, chicken fried noodles and vegetable fried rice provide further choices, allowing Orange House to work equally well for one generous bowl or a table assembled from several shared dishes.

Address: 55 Auburn Avenue, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

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