Friends Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant at E11-119 Meadowland Drive in Somerville, Auckland, and most of its business is online ordering for takeaway and delivery, with secure online payment. The website lists delivery to a long run of East and South Auckland suburbs, including Howick, Pakuranga, Botany Downs, Glen Innes, Panmure and Otara.
The menu leans to Sichuan and Shanghai-style dishes. Examples include mapo tofu, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, sautéed squid with peppers in black bean sauce, and sautéed eggplant with spicy garlic sauce. There are fried green beans with pork mince, shredded pork in spicy garlic sauce served on rice or in noodle soup, and yellow croaker in brown sauce. Dumplings come as pork and chives or pork and Chinese cabbage, in boxes of 20, and dumplings in hot and sour soup come in a set of 15. The menu marks gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free dishes.