Eastern Ocean Chinese Restaurant Menu

Eastern Ocean Chinese Restaurant is a long-format Chinese dining room in central Tauranga, serving from late morning into the evening at 100 Grey Street. Its bilingual menu is unusually broad, covering dim sum, Cantonese roast meats, noodle and rice dishes, larger shared plates and desserts. Online pickup complements the dine-in service, but the scope of the list is especially well suited to a table ordering several dishes together.

Dim sum forms a substantial menu within the menu. Pork siu mai, prawn dumplings, chive prawn dumplings and steamed ribs sit beside chicken feet, sticky rice in lotus leaf and several steamed buns. Rice rolls come with barbecue pork, beef, prawns or vegetables, while the fried and baked selection includes radish cake, sesame balls, spring rolls, taro cake and crisp wontons.

Cantonese barbecue is another major thread. Roast duck, barbecue pork and crisp roast pork can be ordered separately or combined, while Peking duck is offered in formats that carry the meal into additional courses. Congee, wonton noodle soup, fried rice and stir-fried noodles provide more compact choices, and familiar dishes such as sweet and sour pork or chicken with cashew nuts make the menu accessible to mixed groups.

Larger plates extend into prawns, scallops, squid, fish, mussels, beef, lamb, pork, chicken and tofu, with sauces ranging from ginger and spring onion to black bean, oyster and Sichuan chilli. Vegetable dishes and meat-free tofu combinations make it possible to balance the table, while egg tarts, sesame sweets and red bean dumplings finish in the same traditional register as the dim sum. The result is a restaurant that rewards both a quick yum cha-style selection and a full shared banquet.

Address: 100 Grey Street, Tauranga 3110, New Zealand

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