Went there again last night with guests. As always great food – even with the new owners who have been there 6 weeks. Surroundings run down, food great.

This place is so good, I actually don’t want to tell too many people as it may be ruined! But, I can’t keep it to myself – everyone should have the dumplings at least once in their life!

We stumbled upon this restaurant last night and it was fantastic. What a gem. Staff were fantastic, food everything I hoped it would be and more. I will be recommending this to our friends and sharing it with our visitors

Fantastic food!!With some of the reviews I am reading I feel as if we are at a different restaurant. Amazing food!! My partner and I have been frequent flyers here at Red Hill and loved it from day dot. Fantastic service. Always remembered to the stages of first name basis.
Every experience is most enjoyable and as good as the last, great food, great service, great people.
Highly recommended

Emma and Leighton

Dined here with a grabone vouchers (15$ for 30$ worth of food). Service was not great, as soon as I showed the voucher we were treated as second class citizens by the people in the counter (a man and a woman), our waitress was kind though. They wouldn’t allow takeout, although nothing was stated in the voucher disallowing such. I would have let it go, but the food was not great as well. We had such a bad experience that we didn’t use up the other voucher and just let it expire.

We went to Red Hill with a grabone voucher ($30 worth for $15) on a cold Sunday evening. The place was clean, the girls were pleasant, the service attentive. We would have loved to try their speciality (the steam pot) but they said we couldn’t have that; we had to choose from the rest of the menu.

The menu is authentically Chinese – hence contains a lot of offal dishes (hearts, etc). We don’t eat offal, so this limited our choice somewhat. We ordered chicken and sweet corn soup (excellent); stir-fried pork strips (also very good) and spicy fish. The fish was bits of chewy, dried-up, coated and deep fried stuff in a strangely-flavoured sauce, not at all what we had expected from reading the menu. Rather disappointing, especially as all the other customers (all Asian) were enjoying the steamboat!

The place was cold, but all the steamboats soon steamed up all the windows. Perhaps we just made a wrong choice from the menu. All in all, we enjoyed most of our meal, but we have had better.

However, since the steamboat is their signature dish, it wouldn’t have hurt these meanies to let us try it if they really wanted to attract new customers! (N.B. we had made it clear that we would happily have paid any difference). Because of their attitude, we probably won’t bother to go back.

Very tasty!
Great sauces, tender meat – will come again

I usually enjoy Chinese food and had heard this place was good, but it was very disappointing. I had the king prawns in Chef’s special sauce and it was almost inedible. The sauce was horrible and the vegetables (peas, sweetcorn and carrots) were clearly straight from a frozen veg bag. The prawns tasted musty. My girlfriend’s meal was edible but greasy and dull. Perhaps we just chose really badly but this was the worst meal I’ve had in Wellington.

OMG. Real Chinese food DOES exist here in New Zealand.

Bear in mind, I’m Chinese by origin, American by nationality, and multicultural by birthright. So, I’ve been around the block when it comes to “authentic” Chinese cuisine.

We hit the Holy Grail this evening when we decided to check out Red Hill for our weekly night out. Both my fiance, who is a stalwart Kiwi, born and raised who lived in Asia for about a decade, and I, thought the food was EX-CELL-ENT, and stuffed ourselves silly with the food available. Just so you know, we ordered the gamut.

spring rolls (very Western, can’t go wrong appetizer, it came out Cantonese style with cabbage and carrots and a sweet/sour/spicy dipping sauce)
cumin lamb and chicken heart skewers (INCREDIBLE, like China and only NZ$1 each)
dry fired string beans with minced pork (YUM)
pork belly with green bell peppers (capsicum) and onions (like CRACK)

Everything was delicious. We felt like we were back in China. Kudos and compliments to the chef.

Tip: Order steamed rice, because you’re gonna need it to eat with all of the gorgeous strong flavors here.

Our meal came out to about $56 with large beer and glass of red wine.

p.s. There is also hot pot, with lamb and veggies and split mild and spicy (mala) portions for the hot pot. We’ll be checking it out soon.