Dragon Garden Restaurant Menu

Dragon Garden Restaurant is a licensed Upper Riccarton dining room with a menu built for far more than one style of Chinese meal. Its bilingual selection runs from dim sum and cold appetisers through congee, Cantonese roasts, noodles, rice dishes, claypots and large seafood plates. Diners can assemble a full table at the restaurant or use the active pickup and delivery service, while the sheer number of sections makes it equally possible to order a quick individual bowl or a broad shared spread.

Small dishes provide several ways into the menu. Pork-and-prawn siu mai, prawn dumplings, pork dumplings and barbecue-pork buns cover familiar steamed and fried forms, while chicken feet add a traditional dim sum choice. The cold section is more adventurous: garlic cucumber and wood ear fungus sit beside chilli chicken, spicy beef and tripe, jellyfish and soy pork feet. Soups and congee then offer gentler options, including hot and sour soup, seaweed tofu soup and preserved-egg pork porridge.

Roast meats are one of the clearest anchors. Duck, crisp-skinned pork and barbecue pork can be ordered separately or combined on a platter, then paired with rice for a more compact meal. Other rice choices range from beef brisket and soy chicken to Dong Po pork, salted-fish chicken fried rice and Yangzhou fried rice. Noodles are similarly varied, moving through beef ho fun, Hokkien noodles, Singapore rice noodles, brisket noodle soup and wonton noodle soup.

The larger plates make most sense when several diners order across categories. Garlic pork ribs, twice-cooked pork belly, chilli chicken, cumin lamb and beef-brisket claypot supply rich meat dishes, while chef's tofu, mushrooms over bok choy and garlic broccoli keep vegetables central to the table. Seafood reaches from salt-and-pepper prawns and squid to Szechuan boiled fish and fish cooked with pickled cabbage and chilli. That breadth lets a group balance crisp, roasted, braised, fresh and spicy elements in one meal.

Address: 384 Riccarton Road, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

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