Giving 5 stars based on the food.
It’s hard to find restaurants that make “the best” dishes.
They have THE BEST DUMPLINGS & DEEPFRIED PEANUT BUTTER & JAM BALLS you will ever find!
Have been 4 times, until they started charging per plate!
Bring back the $20 lunch buffet!!!!

Beautiful interior and good authentic flavours, however could do better in terms of variety and freshness. For instance, they had turnip cake, but not taro cake. You could get steamed rice rolls with prawns or beef, but not plain. The egg tarts, which we had to ask for, were shrunken and split on top. The restaurant has the potential to be excellent, if they get enough customers to raise the level of the food to a more expansive and fresher offering.

Brought my mother to yum cha for lunch several weeks ago. Husband joined me here last friday and i had my fingers crossed that it would be as superb after all my boasting. It was! We adore dim sums and now consider the jade dragon to be the very best – sticky, clean and tasty prawn with recognizabke vegetable components. The service was speedy with a great number of proffered dishes and the ambience at the jade dragon supersedes all other yum cha we have had in auckland (nz actually). Totally recommend – very favorite lunch. Cost $42 for both of us including teas.

Great yum char, what more can I say….
Service is excellent and attentive food is always fresh and plentiful..

Only down side it is can be very noisy due to the other parts of SkyCity..

I went for the yum char with 2 other friends about 2 weeks ago. The food was comparatively good based on European standard for Asian food. Enough variety to choose from. We have lots of attention, perhaps because we were there early (11 am) so there were not many customers at that time. I will recommend friends to go again.

We went for Yum Char today, and were completely underwhelmed.

The food was okay, not that we had an opportunity to get much, as we were barely offered anything. The place wasn’t particularly busy, but very few plates made it to us, and the ones that did were just the same thing every time.

After a while, we tried to order some food from a passing waitress, but it never came, and we never saw her again.

I felt ignored, particuarly compared to other tables of obviously vip skycity guests, who received attentive service even though they were very demanding and quite rude to staff.

Altogether an unpleasant experience, and definitely won’t be going back.

Been here a couple of times now and both times were excellent. The food and service are top notch, and I’ve recommended it to many friends.

The yum char is highly recommended!

Came here for yum cha with a couple of friends. The food was terrible, the worst yum cha food I have ever had. The food was not authentic and tasted terrible. In particular was the char siu so which was not made using the correct chinese pastry, but pie pastry. It was wrapped so thickly at the close it was all doughy and uncooked, we returned the plate to the chef and got told that that was how it was suppose to be. The egg tart was horrific, the pastry was not made well and tasted like the oil in it had gone off. We had some savory plates which were alright, but were not fresh. We only had 6 plates as we couldn’t understand how mediocre the food was and finished lunch elsewhere.

Dined here for a friend’s birthday. we were in this private area of the restaurant.The food was good.

I just have a comment with this waitress serving us, when we asked for some juice and she brought it in a pitcher, she asked us if we want to return the water to the water pitcher so she could put the juice in the glass where the water was. we didn’t quite understand her, until she was about to pour the water in our glasses to the main water pitcher! now, who does that??? even at home you don’t do that. it’s not clean and can’t she just give us another glass for the juice? is the dishwasher broken?

we laughed at it the whole night. better service please!

Jade Dragon (formerly Ming Court) is now al la carte yum char (as opposed to all you can eat) and originally I was disappointed at this fact – as I felt that it was nice to have an all you can eat yum char in Akl CBD (point of difference). A friend and I have just been and tried the new a la carte yum char and we were pleasantly surprised! All the dumplings were much tastier, in particular the prawn and spinach and pork siu mai were delicious! We felt the service was 10x better than previously, and found the waiting staff to be friendly, helpful and knowledgable. They came around to check if there was anything else we would like or they could do and replenished our Chinese tea often. All in all one of the best yum char experiences I’ve had yet! We ate until we were completely full and the bill was only $5 more than the all you can eat price. We will definitely be back, happy to pay slighly more for superior food and impeccable service!

Not a bad place to get the yum cha, but we think the food is a little bit over priced and the service need to be improved as well. Nothing spectacular or memoriable. The chives dumpling is quiet yummy.