Due to previous reviews, I was a little hesitant to try Green Jade Takeaways. However, an overdue craving for Chinese takeaways inspired me to take the plunge and definitively put to rest my curiosity of the place I pass everyday on my morning commute. We had the combination fried rice, Ginger w/spring onion beef, bbq pork, and wontons. Food was cheap, quick, hot(temp), and we even got an extra wonton(which were deliciously meaty). Is it the best I’ve had? No. But is it the worst in the Avondale shops? Absolutely not. will definitely be returning to further explore the menu.
Melanie M.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Auckland, New Zealand
Why do I repeatedly ask Chinese restaurants for lemon chicken when no matter where it is from I feel grossed out by the sickly sweetness of the meal? This one had no exceptions except for the fact I only got half way through my ample size $ 11.00 meal and decided I could’t bare any more… don’t worry Green Jade, it’s about me, not you. However, why was my chicken so stringy? Was that really chicken I ate? And Green Jade if you have been around for so long why do you still have hand written signs on the wall? Some of which have items scrubbed out with a texta(ok, that is an Aussie thing, I have recently heard that it has another name here. .marker?!). So many questions Green Jade, so many questions…
Makanaka T.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Auckland, New Zealand
I honestly can’t call Green Jade a restaurant, it is more of a takeaway shop. Thinking about Green Jade makes me think about the good old days when I was in high school and had nothing to worry about. Well my only worries at that time were whether I would have to wait more than 5 minutes for my $ 1 chips to be ready. After school everyday, a strange hunger pang would hit me. I would just have the munchies so a bunch of friends and I would walk down to Green Jade and order a dollar chips and a Starz drink. Somehow that used to fill up the whole group. Now as I think about those crispy delicious chips I can’t help but sing«started from the bottom now we here».
Eddie D.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Auckland, New Zealand
This place has many nostalgic memories for me — when I grew up in Waterview(a suburb that no longer really exists, thanks to State Highway 20) we would come here for fish and chips on Friday nights, because Waterview only had one takeaway place and it was disgusting. Which is not to say this place is amazing, but it was our closest, best option. And now, some twenty years later(Christ), very little has changed. Still doing fish and chips, still doing the sort of non-threatening Chinese food that goes along with fish and chips. The signage has changed slightly since I first came here but some things are timeless. Or if not timeless, nevertheless they still take a long time to decay. Green Jade is like nuclear waste — not a comment on the food, which is fine, just saying it has a long half-life.