Dominion Road is one of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland's food hot spots this street
with over 108 restaurants offers thousands of dishes from all around the world today we're
taking you into the kitchen of New Zealand's only Uyghur restaurant if you're a meat lover
you'll love this food we eat traditional hanging kebab Uyghur meat pies and cumin laden lamb
we dive into a north eastern Thai feast featuring favourites like papaya salad pork skewers larb and
sticky rice before nabbing a sashimi don from a shop that sells only 101 bowls a day
we're hunting down Auckland's best eats hit subscribe and get ready for some mouth-watering
food
i'm Thomas and i'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we hope you're hungry let's eat
for five years now we've had the joy of traveling the world and filming videos
for this YouTube channel we're back home in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and we could not be
happier to be filming on Dominion Road here in Tāmaki Makaurau the diversity and the amount
of restaurants on this road is world class it's crazy how much good food there is to eat
we're talking 108 restaurants just in the strip that we're filming for this five
part series we love it and the diversity is brilliant so we're covering lots of different
cuisines in this five-part video series and today is no different we're covering
a real range of food in this video and we're starting with Uyghur cuisine which is from an
autonomous region in north western China so a very interesting cuisine to be eating let's get into it
i absolutely adore this restaurant it is the only i believe Uyghur restaurant in New Zealand and the
cuisine is so unique so the Uyghur people are an ethnic minority from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in
the northwest of China the food is very meat heavy lots of carrots onions mutton beef wheat products
so noodles wheat noodles and breads and there are so many dishes on the menu it is going to be hard
to just limit ourselves to a few but there's gonna be some tasty eats to share with you today
we've ordered a feast we've got some meat pies we've got a lamb and potato dish we've got some hanging
skewers meat skewers we've got cucumber salad with heaps of garlic we've got some salty milk tea
but before we eat it we're gonna go have a look in the kitchen and see it all being prepared
hello
the smells in here are awesome we've watched lamb and potatoes go into the hot oil
deep fry for a bit and then tossed in a wok with a ton of spices
and now our hanging kebab dish is being put together by chef so raw onion and then this
beautiful meat that's come out of the oven is just going to be hung on these these little racks
one of the most popular uh dishes at the JadeTown Uyghur restaurant
are their pies so these are Uyghur pies and I've just been talking to Ali who's the owner
and he said that the pies are a common street food in Xinjiang so we've got this humongous pot of
pie filling it's mainly lamb and onions and the lamb is hand cut so hand chopped hand minced
lamb and then this lady here is just rolling out the the pastry so a wheat flour pastry and
then forming these perfect little parcels of um pies oh man i'm so excited to get into this one
our pies are in the oven the rest of the food is on the table so we're going to
get started on that and then we'll come back into the kitchen and grab our pies
how is this for a spread to start us off really neat getting in the kitchen seeing it all be
prepared this dish here with the potatoes the lamb deep fried covered in spices chucked in the wok
smells unbelievable we've got the cucumber salad which is covered in garlic that is strong with
garlic and then the the lamb tower so this is an interesting contraption this is actually
traditionally cooked in a tandoor oven on this rack so the whole rack goes into the
oven and the meat is cooked that way they don't have a tandoor here so they cook the
meat in the oven but then serve it on the rack and that's served with some raw onion underneath
there's some pickled vegetables it looks like some chilli sauce some mint jelly to go with that
and to drink we have this beautiful jug of tea this is a salty milk tea so
oh my god i just poured it everywhere okay gonna have to have a clean up operation before i can eat
okay clean up initiated i can't do two things at once talk on camera and pour tea apparently
that's so good so it's a light tea heavy heavy on the milk flavour but it's salted so you can get
it sweet and salted we got the salted version i think it goes really well with this food
now this potato and lamb dish is heaven
look at the spice on there
that is so good i adore the flavour of cumin and it's so strong in that dish so they deep
fry the meat and the potatoes together so the potatoes have a little crispiness on them the
meat has a little crispiness on it but it's soft easy to eat and then just covered in spices and
a tiny bit of chilli in that wok and everything is coated in flavour that is a very good dish
the pies have been pulled hot out of the oven and they've been delivered to our table
look at those beautiful golden parcels oh smell real good but i reckon i've got to tackle this
hanging kebab i just can't get over how spectacular it looks this is my kind of dish
so eating meat off the bone is just you know my idea of heaven so i have got this marinated piece
of lamb i can see a ton of spices on there chilli cumin i've dipped it in the mint jelly
oh man
that mouthful was actually just fat and it was delicious
the lamb has formed this crust over it and so it's crunchy melt in your mouth
there's there meat right there oh it's beautiful
what an awesome way to enjoy lamb um there's some raw onion here
cuts through the richness of the meat and the Uyghur community is Muslim so
you'll see a lot of of mutton lamb beef in their diet oh man this is good
it's pie time i suspect that these are going to be very juicy inside because that huge pile of
raw filling that we saw out there was a really great mix of both lean meat and fat
and so this is going to make for a really juicy filling hopefully it's cooled down enough
mm-hmm
the filling has got such a great texture it's chunky chunky onions chunky meat it's
very flavoursome look at that and the the pie crust just the dough very soft easy to eat
so good
the food selection here on Dominion Road is so good
across this five video series we are having so many different cuisines
in this video alone we're having northwestern chinese
we're having japanese and now we're going for some very good thai
this is a little restaurant we love i mean how good is thai food
this restaurant does great versions and takes us straight back to being in thailand this street is so good to eat on
Tom Yum Eden has a massive menu so they've got all of the usual suspects
but we have honed in on the Isaan dishes and Isaan is north eastern thailand so they've got this thai
menu so it's all in thai and i've just run it through google translate and i found some
dishes which are on here but are not on the main menu so we're going to order up some
north eastern sausages some papaya salad some sticky rice all sorts
you good yup good you want to ah yes oh wow for your som tum
i'm just peering over the shoulder of Bee the chef and she is making our somtum so our papaya salad
so it's going into the into the mortar and it's going to be ground up so all
of those fragrant ingredients I saw fish sauce going in and um
palm sugar, palm sugar syrup ohh yea, tamarind sauce oh can't wait to eat it
now some moo ping has gone into the pan this is my ultimate street food in Thailand when you're
walking the streets of bangkok you find little sellers of moo ping all over they're pork skewers
and you cannot resist it so cool to be able to get these in auckland yum
i'm just watching the larb coming together so the base of the larb which is a salad is going to be
minced pork and then it's going to be mixed up with herbs and ground rice
and it's just such a moreish dish
look at our gorgeous dishes on the pass so we've got our larb which is the ground pork
and ground rice salad we've got somtum papaya salad moo ping the pork skewers and then some
thai isaan sausage what a feast it's going to be and we're going to eat it with sticky rice
how good does this feast look we've gone for a isaan spread so isaan is the region
in northeastern thailand so this is the food you find in that part of thailand this restaurant does
food from all over thailand all your favourites so your pad thais and your curries and whatnot
but we're focused on this food this is a spread of food that we love eating when we're in thailand so
it's really neat to be able to get these flavours here starting off we've got moo ping pork skewers
normally cooked over charcoal just done in the pan here because they
don't have access to the charcoal but the caramelisation they've got on there
looks smells great we've got larb and we've gone with a pork larb as well this is sort of
a pork salad so there's lots of herbs spice in there we've got these fermented sausages these
are great when you're on the street in thailand and we've got a somtum which is a green papaya
salad sticky rice to go with it what a feast
moo ping to start me off these pork skewers
nice and sweet and sticky the the glaze that they put on them and cook them in ohhh that takes you
right back to being in thailand let's get some somtum so often you'll get on the street in
thailand you'll get moo ping you get a little bag of this green papaya salad to go with it
yum sharp with spice it's got fish sauce in there peanuts for crunch covered in dried
shrimps so they're a little crunch as well and obviously a flavour from those shrimps
oh fresh lively vibrant that is delicious i love the balance of flavours they've got in there
really good
i'm compiling a mouthful of larb and sticky rice
holy moly that is good it's got a kick too
ton of chilli it's sort of like a warm salad because the ground pork the minced pork is cooked obviously
and then it's mixed in with those fresh herbs
so you've got the zing of coriander freshness of mint there's kaffir
lime leaf in there there's fresh shallots so it's a very lively mix oh that's good
i'm gonna get into this Isaan sausage so i'm gonna go for the old wrap method so i've got
some cabbage leaves a little bit of ginger and the sausage is a fermented pork sausage
wow far out that is really good it's a sour sausage so bee in the kitchen was telling me that
they ferment the the pork mixture the pork and rice mixture for about three or four days so pork
rice got a great soft texture and a sour flavour oh it's so fresh oh man i'm loving this food
i enjoy eating on Dominion Road so much the food's so traditional and
there's so much diversity i mean we've had some really interesting food in this
video and now we're going for japanese and what i really love about this restaurant
is they do 101 bowls of sashimi a day and when they're done they're done they shut the door
after 101 bowls are sold so you've got to get in to win so hopefully we can get a bowl
Sashimi of Japan specialise in sashimi donburi so raw fish
on top of rice we have gone for the deluxe sashimi donburi a ton of seafood
so 101 sashimi don available a day once they're gone they're gone and this tradition of 101
sashimi don shops is quite common in japan so there are shops like this in japan and so
they've brought this um tradition to New Zealand so this deluxe sashimi don all kinds of seafood
we've got king salmon there's shimesaba which is cured mackerel bonito tuna snapper trevally and
then we've got a mussel prawn octopus unagi which is eel scallop and then let me just show you what
it looks like underneath here so ta-da we've got some wasabi and then we've got white rice
tobiko which is the flying fish roe some egg ginger spring onion and some nori some seaweed
so we're going to mix all that up and then dip our sashimi the raw fish into the soy sauce and wasabi
such a gorgeous looking meal i'm going to dive straight in for the
trevally this is a prevalent fish here in the waters in in new zealand and a very good sashimi
wow they use very high quality fish here and that jumps out at me straight away clean
fresh that's really good let's go with some salmon an absolute
classic when it comes to sashimi we'll give that a big dunk in the soy and wasabi
whoa oh that is good again super fresh really good quality fish let's have some some rice
i love that vinegar taste that you get through this style of japanese rice
how special is it to be able to eat like this i mean so clean fresh and such good
quality i love this little restaurant i feel like i'm in japan it's just a neat environment
to be in with such good food and i'm definitely eyeing up this this prawn but i know that Sheena's
favourite so i think i'm going to leave that one for her can't wait to get into this raw prawn
i prefer raw prawns over cooked ones and this one looks like a cracker plenty more to come
in this Dominion Road series thank you so much for watching remember to hit like hit subscribe
drop a comment down below let us know what you thought of this video oh yeah give it a dunk
super creamy i'm so glad we got one of these 101 bowls today