Panda Noodles

About Panda Noodles

Panda Noodles on Melrose Road in Mount Roskill cooks the Sichuan-leaning menu of Panda Noodle Express — an Auckland Chinese kitchen whose priorities are easy to read from the board: noodles first, then dumplings, wontons, steamed buns, pita-style street snacks and sharing dishes laced with chilli and Sichuan peppercorn. The full menu lives online, in English and Chinese, where you can order for pickup or delivery and pay securely.

The cooking leans into proper Sichuan flavour. Cold dishes like bean jelly in sweet-sour chilli sauce, mouth-watering chicken, fuqi feipian and a signature mala beef jerky open the menu; maocai hotpot bowls, whole bluecod plates, cumin lamb, mapo tofu and a long run of wok-fried stir-fries follow. Seventeen noodle soups range from dan dan and braised beef to cold chicken noodles and a nourishing lamb broth, and most can be switched to rice or glass noodles. Dumplings come boiled or fried twenty at a time, and the pita-and-bun list covers handmade steamed buns, pork buns and guokui-style stuffed breads.

It's set up for easy ordering: pre-order online for a chosen pickup time, or get food delivered across a wide sweep of Auckland suburbs, with delivery fees applying by area. The menu flags gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free items, and the kitchen notes that food is prepared in shared areas, so allergen-free can't be guaranteed. Iced sweets like brown sugar ice jelly close things out.

Panda Noodles Mount Roskill: Sichuan Noodles, Dumplings and Maocai in Auckland

Panda Noodles on Melrose Road in Mount Roskill cooks the Sichuan-leaning menu of Panda Noodle Express, an Auckland Chinese kitchen whose priorities are easy to read from the board: noodles first, then dumplings, wontons, steamed buns, pita-style street snacks and sharing dishes laced with chilli and Sichuan peppercorn. The whole menu lives online, in English and Chinese, where you can pre-order for pickup or delivery and pay securely — so the kitchen works as well for a solo weeknight bowl as for a planned feast.

A Sichuan kitchen through and through

The menu's heart is unmistakably Sichuan. The cold dishes section alone reads like a tour of the province: bean jelly in sweet, sour and chilli sauce, Sichuan-style mung bean jelly, mouth-watering chicken in sweet soy and chilli oil, sliced ox offal in chilli sauce (the classic fuqi feipian), pig ear in red chilli oil and a signature mala beef jerky. Rattan pepper — the numbing cousin of chilli — runs through dishes like bobo-style chicken and beef in chilli sauce.

Mains keep the same company: kung pao chicken, mapo tofu, twice-cooked pork in black bean sauce, cumin lamb, sliced beef in chilli soup and a long run of wok-fired offal dishes for those who grew up on them. There are gentler plates too — sweet and sour pork, braised mini meatballs and a row of vegetable and tofu stir-fries.

Noodles are the headline act

As the name suggests, noodles do the heavy lifting. The noodle list runs to seventeen bowls: dan dan noodles, braised beef noodle soup, pickled vegetables with shredded pork, chicken with mushrooms, cold noodles with shredded chicken, Yibin-style dry noodles with peanuts and sesame, and a nourishing lamb noodle soup among them. Helpfully, most can be switched to rice noodles or wide or thin glass noodles instead of wheat noodles.

Beyond the standard bowls there are noodle soups topped with freshly stir-fried dishes — kung pao chicken, yu xiang shredded pork, twice-cooked pork — plus a casserole section of rice noodle soups served in clay pots, from braised beef to pickled fish fillets, and a separate list of rice plates and rice-in-soup bowls.

Dumplings, buns and street snacks

The handmade side of the kitchen shows in the snack list. Fried dumplings come twenty to a serve with pork-and-cabbage or pork-and-chive fillings; boiled versions arrive dressed in chilli or sweet sesame soy; and four wonton styles run from a chicken-soup classic to a fiercely numbing rattan-pepper take. The Chinese pita list stuffs soft guokui-style bread with rice-flour steamed beef, spiced pork intestine or pork mince with pickled cowpeas, while the bun section covers handmade plain steamed buns, pork buns and a crispy meat pie in spicy or mild form. Steamed rice-flour dishes — beef and pork ribs coated in spicy rice flour — and iced sweets like brown sugar ice jelly round things off.

Built for sharing, and for delivery

Bigger appetites are catered for with maocai hotpot bowls — mixed vegetables, mixed meats, ox tripe or the classic mao xue wang with duck blood — whole-fish seafood plates including grilled bluecod, fried rice and noodles, and hearty soups built on pork trotters.

Ordering is straightforward: the full menu is online with a pre-order system for choosing a pickup time, or food can be delivered across a long list of Auckland suburbs — the CBD and inner suburbs, Mount Roskill, Epsom, Remuera, New Lynn and many more — with delivery fees applying by area. Payments are handled securely with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. One note from the kitchen: dishes are prepared in shared areas with shared equipment, so while ingredient information is offered, no dish can be guaranteed completely free of a specific allergen.

Whether it's a solo bowl of dan dan noodles, a twenty-piece dumpling run for the family or a full Sichuan spread with cold dishes, maocai and iced sweets for the table, Panda Noodles puts the deep end of Sichuan home cooking within easy reach of Mount Roskill — often without leaving the couch.

Signature items

• Dan Dan Noodles
• Fried Dumplings (20 Pcs)
• Dumplings with Sesame Soy Sauce
• Hand Made Steamed Buns
• Braised Pork Ribs with Noodle Soup
• Mapo Tofu

Menu

Soups

• Green Veges and Tofu Soup — Light, homestyle greens and tofu broth
• Soybean Sprout and Meat Ball Soup — Meatballs with sprouts in clear soup
• Pork Trotters and Seaweed Soup — Trotters simmered with seaweed
• Pork Trotters and Snow Beans Soup — Trotters with snow beans, slow-simmered

Drinks

• Soft Drinks (375ml Can) — Chilled canned soft drinks
• Soft Drinks (600ml Bottle) — Bigger bottled soft drinks

Sweets

• Tremella Soup with Rock Sugar (Iced) — Chilled snow fungus soup, lightly sweet
• Brown Sugar Ice Jelly (Iced) — Iced jelly with brown sugar syrup
• Fermented Rice Sticky Rice Balls (Hot) — Warm rice balls in sweet fermented rice
• Hand Made Sticky Rice Cake with Brown Sugar — Hand-pounded sticky rice cake, brown sugar
• Brown Sugar Leaf Wrapped Sticky Rice Dumpling — Peanut, walnut and sesame filling

Noodles

• Dan Dan Noodles — Sichuan icon: chilli oil, mince and numbing spice
• Spicy and Sour Glass Noodles Soup (No Meat) — Meat-free hot-and-sour glass noodle soup
• Spicy Chicken Cubes in Noodle Soup — Broth noodles with chilli-fried chicken
• Pork Mince Noodles Soup in Clear or Red Broth — Mince-topped noodles, mild or spicy broth
• Pickled Veges and Shredded Pork Noodle Soup — Sour greens and pork over noodles
• Braised Beef Noodle Soup — Red-braised beef in deep savoury broth
• Spicy Chicken Offals Noodle Soup — Chicken offals with a spicy kick
• Braised Chicken with Mushrooms Noodle Soup — Braised chicken and mushrooms in broth
• Cowpea with Pork Mince Noodles Soup — Pickled cowpea and pork mince topping
• Braised Pork Ribs with Noodle Soup — Braised ribs over soup noodles
• Cold Noodles with Shredded Chicken — Chilled Sichuan noodles, chicken and sauce
• Chengdu Fried Egg and Tomato Noodle Soup — Chengdu-style noodles with fried egg and tomato
• Yibin Burning Noodles with Peanuts, Sesame and Pork Mince — Dry noodles with peanuts and sesame
• Peas with Pork Mince Noodles — Soft peas and mince over noodles
• Braised Pork Tero Tero Noodle Soup — Braised intestine noodles for the adventurous
• Lamb Noodle Soup — Nourishing lamb broth with noodles
• Spicy Pork Mince with Sour Bamboo Shoots and Black Beans Noodles — Punchy, sour mince-topped noodles

Seafood

• Boiled Basa Fish with Pickled Vegetable in Soup — Basa fillets poached with pickled greens in broth
• Spicy Fried Shrimp — Shrimp flash-fried with hot spice
• Delicious Braised Fish (Bluecod) — Whole bluecod braised in rich savoury sauce
• Braised Bluecod in Chilli Sauce — House-style bluecod with a chilli kick
• Crispy Bluecod in Sweet and Sour Sauce — Crisp fish under sweet and sour sauce
• Fried Spicy Shrimps with Chicken Feet in Dry Pot — Dry pot of spicy shrimp and chicken feet
• Spicy Grilled Fish with Chicken — Green peppercorn grilled fish with chicken
• Spicy Grilled Bluecod Fish Vegetable Mixture — Mala grilled bluecod over vegetables

Wontons

• Wonton with Chilli Soup — Wontons in red chilli oil, light broth
• Wonton in Chicken Soup — Chengdu-style wontons in clear chicken soup
• Wonton with Dried Shrimps and Seaweed in Chicken Soup — Chicken-soup wontons with shrimp and seaweed
• Wonton with Rattan Pepper in Chicken Soup — Extra-numbing rattan pepper wontons, light soup

Dumplings

• Fried Dumplings (20 Pcs) — Twenty pan-fried dumplings; pork-cabbage or pork-chive filling
• Boiled Dumplings — Boiled dumplings in classic chilli dressing
• Dumplings in Sour Soup — Dumplings swimming in tangy sour broth
• Dumplings with Sesame Soy Sauce — Chengdu-style dumplings in sweet sesame soy

Cold Dishes

• Bean Jelly with Sweet Sour and Chilli Sauce — Chilled bean jelly in sweet, sour and chilli sauce
• Sichuan-Style Cold Mung Bean Jelly — Classic chilled mung bean jelly with chilli dressing
• Three Mix Shred — Cold salad of seaweed, carrot and dried tofu
• Chinese Pickle — Tangy Sichuan-style pickled vegetables
• Cumin Fried Potato with Chilli — Crispy fried baby potatoes with cumin and chilli
• Fresh Cucumber Salad with Chilli Sauce — Crunchy cucumber tossed in chilli dressing
• Stewed Beef — Sliced beef braised in spiced stock
• Steamed Chicken with Sweet Soy Sauce in Chilli Oil — Mouth-watering cold chicken, a Sichuan classic
• Sliced Chicken and Vegetables with Rattan Pepper in Chilli Sauce — Bobo-style chicken with numbing rattan pepper
• Pot-Stewed Pork Tero Tero — Pork intestine pot-stewed in fragrant spices
• Marinated Egg in Chilli Sauce — Egg steeped in house mala chilli sauce
• Spicy Duck Head — Duck head in fiery mala spice
• Braised Pork Trotters — Five-spice braised pork trotters
• Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs — Ribs lacquered in tangy sweet and sour glaze
• Preserved Egg with Green Pepper — Century egg with dressed green pepper
• Pig Ear with Chilli Sauce — Sliced pig ear in red chilli oil
• Ox Offals in Chilli Sauce — Fuqi feipian: sliced ox offal in chilli sauce
• Houttuynia Cordata Salad with Chilli Sauce — Seasonal fish-mint herb salad with chilli
• Sliced Boiled Pork with Garlic Chilli Sauce — Thin-sliced pork in garlicky chilli sauce
• Signature Spicy Beef Jerky — House-signature mala beef jerky

Rice In Soup

• Meat Ball and Rice in Soup — Meatballs and rice in comforting soup
• Pork Trotters and Rice in Soup — Trotter soup over rice
• Rice in Lamb Soup — Nourishing lamb soup with rice
• Green Vegetable and Tofu with Rice in Soup — Light veg and tofu soup over rice

Steamed Flour

• Steamed Beef with Spicy Rice Flour — Beef steamed with spiced rice flour
• Steamed Pork Ribs with Spicy Rice Flour — Rice-flour steamed pork ribs

Vegetable & Tofu

• Sour and Spicy Stir Fried Shredded Potatoes — Hot-and-sour shredded potato stir-fry
• Stir Fried Shredded Potato with Green Pepper — Wok-tossed potato shreds with green pepper
• Sweet and Sour Cabbage — Tangy-sweet stir-fried cabbage
• Stir Fried Vegetables with Minced Garlic — Seasonal greens with punchy garlic
• Stir Fried Broccoli — Simple, clean stir-fried broccoli
• Mapo Tofu — Tofu in fiery, tongue-tingling mala sauce
• Stir Fried Green Beans with Minced Pork — Dry-fried beans with savoury pork mince
• Stir Fried Mixed Vegetables — Mixed vegetable medley, lightly wok-tossed
• Mapo Tofu with Pork Brain — Mapo tofu enriched with pork brain

Chinese Pitas & Buns

• Steamed Beef with Spicy Rice Flour in Chinese Pita — Pita stuffed with rice-flour steamed beef
• Spiced Pork or Beef in Chinese Pita — Braised spiced meat in a pita
• Ox Offals with Chilli Sauce in Chinese Pita — Fuqi feipian filling in a pita
• Pickled Cowpea with Pork Mince in Chinese Pita — Sour cowpea and pork mince in pita
• Three Mixed Shred Veges Chinese Pita — Vegetarian three-shred salad pita
• Spiced Tero Tero Chinese Pita — Spiced pork intestine in a pita
• Pork Minced Buns — Steamed buns with seasoned pork mince
• Hand Made Steamed Buns — Plain handmade steamed buns
• Crispy Meatloaf (Spicy or Mild) — Flaky pan-fried meat pie, hot or not
• Leaf Wrapped Sticky Rice Dumpling with Pork Mince — Sticky rice dumpling with pork filling

Fried Rice & Noodles

• Egg Fried Rice — Simple, golden egg fried rice
• Vegetable Fried Rice — Mixed vegetables through wok-fried rice
• BBQ Pork and Shrimp Fried Rice — Yangzhou classic with BBQ pork and shrimp
• Fried Rice with BBQ Pork — Char siu fried rice
• Fried Rice with Chicken — Chicken fried rice
• Fried Rice with Beef — Beef fried rice
• Fried Rice with Smoked Pork — Fried rice with smoky cured pork
• Fried Noodles with Vegetables — Wok-tossed noodles with vegetables
• Fried Noodles with BBQ Pork — Noodles with char siu
• Fried Noodles with Chicken — Noodles with chicken
• Fried Noodles with Beef — Noodles with beef
• Fried Noodles with Smoked Pork — Noodles with smoky cured pork
• Fried Rice with Spicy Pickled Cowpea and Pork Mince — Fried rice with sour pickles and mince

Casserole Rice Noodles

• Seaweed and Pickled Pork Mince Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Three-delicacy rice noodles in clay pot
• Braised Beef Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Braised beef rice noodles, served bubbling
• Braised Pork Ribs Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Ribs and rice noodles in a casserole
• Pork Mince and Cowpea Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Minced pork and cowpea clay-pot noodles
• Spicy Chicken Offals Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Spicy offals rice noodles in clay pot
• Spicy Chicken Cubelets Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Chilli chicken rice noodles, bubbling hot
• Pickled Veges and Fish Fillets Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Fish fillets with pickled greens, clay pot
• Braised Pork Tero Tero Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Braised intestine rice noodles in casserole
• Pork Brain Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Pork brain rice noodles in clay pot
• Chopped Pork Trotters Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Clear-broth trotter rice noodles
• Spicy Pork Mince and Pickled Bamboo Shoots Rice Noodle Soup in Casserole — Lao you style rice noodles in casserole

Hotpot Dishes (Mao Cai)

• Hot Pot Mixed Vegetable — Vegetable maocai in savoury mala broth
• Hot Pot Mixed Meat and Veges — Meat and vege maocai bowl
• Hot Pot Beef with Veges — Beef maocai with mixed vegetables
• Hot Pot Ox Tripe with Veges — Ox tripe maocai with vegetables
• Hot Pot Mixed Meat and Duck Blood with Veges — Mao xue wang: classic duck-blood maocai
• Hot Pot Mixed Meat, Mixed Veges and Seafood — Family-style maocai with seafood
• Hot Pot Pork Brain with Veges — Pork brain maocai with vegetables

Pork, Beef, Lamb & Chicken

• Stir Fried Shredded Pork in Sweet and Sour Sauce — Yu xiang shredded pork, sweet-sour and fragrant
• Stir-Fried Chopped Pork Trotters — Chopped trotters wok-fried with chilli
• ZiGong Stir-Fried Pork — Zigong-style pork with fresh chilli
• Fried Chicken Cubes with Ginger — Chicken cubes pan-fried with young ginger
• Braised Small Meat Ball — Braised mini meatballs in rich sauce
• Lettuce with Mixed Fish Ball, Squid, Quail Eggs and Meat — Lettuce stew with mixed meats and seafood
• Sweet and Sour Pork — Crisp pork in classic sweet and sour
• Braised Chicken Cubes — Dry pot of braised chicken cubes
• Tofu with Mixed Veges and Meats in Soup — Savoury tofu soup with meats and vegetables
• Beef with Tofu in BBQ Chilli Sauce Pot — Stone pot of beef and tofu in burnt-chilli sauce
• Fried Beef with Celery and Chilli — Beef stir-fried with celery and chilli
• Sliced Pork Liver with Chilli and Pickled Veges — Quick-fried liver with pickled vegetables
• Kung Pao Chicken — Chicken, peanuts and dried chilli, kung pao style
• Stir Fried Sliced Pork with Green Pepper and Black Bean Sauce — Twice-cooked pork in black bean sauce
• Stir Fried Smoked Pork with Dried Tofu and Celery — Smoked pork with firm tofu and celery
• Stir Fried Pig Kidney with Chilli and Pickled Veges — Wok-fired kidney with pickled veges
• Stir Fried Pig Kidney and Chicken Offals with Chilli and Pickled Veges — Dual-crisp offals with chilli and pickles
• Braised Tero Tero — Pork intestine braised deep and savoury
• Stir Fried Tero Tero with Green Chilli, Rattan Pepper and Pickled Veges — Intestines with twin peppers and pickles
• Beef with Rattan Pepper in Chilli Sauce — Beef in numbing rattan-pepper chilli sauce
• Ox Offals and Beef Soup with Cabbage and Celery — Beef and offal soup with vegetables
• Duck Blood and Tero Tero in Chilli Sauce — Duck blood and intestine, chilli-braised
• Stir Fried Chicken Gizzards with Pickled Beans — Gizzards with sour pickled long beans
• Rattan Pepper and Green Pepper with Pickled Veges Stir Fried Chicken — Chicken tossed with peppers and pickles
• Braised Pork with Dried Long Bean — Grandma-style pork with dried long beans
• Fried Chicken Cubelets with Chilli — Crispy chicken morsels among dried chillies
• Chicken Cubes with Pork Tero Tero and Rattan Pepper in Hot Pot — Chicken and intestine pot with rattan pepper
• Sliced Beef in Chilli Soup — Shui zhu beef in fiery chilli broth
• Stir Fried Cumin Lamb — Lamb wok-tossed with cumin
• Stir Fried Shredded Pork with Green Pepper — Everyday pork shreds with green pepper
• Stir Fried Smoked Pork with Lettuce — Smoked pork with crisp lettuce stems

Rice With Stir-Fried Toppings

• Braised Beef with Rice — Braised beef ladled over rice
• Minced Pork with Pickled Cowpeas on Rice — Rice with sour cowpea and pork mince
• Braised Pork Ribs with Rice — Braised ribs over steamed rice
• Shredded Pork with Pickled Vegetables on Rice — Sour greens and pork on rice
• Mapo Tofu with Rice — Mala mapo tofu over rice
• Stewed Chicken and Mushrooms with Rice — Chicken and mushrooms with rice
• Stir-Fried Sliced Pork, Green Pepper and Black Bean Sauce with Rice — Twice-cooked pork rice plate
• Stir-Fried Shredded Pork in Sweet and Sour Sauce with Rice — Yu xiang pork rice plate
• Kung Pao Chicken with Rice — Kung pao chicken rice plate
• Stir-Fried Sliced Pork Liver with Rice — Liver rice plate with pickles
• Stir-Fried Pork Kidney with Rice — Kidney rice plate with pickled veges
• Stir-Fried Pork Kidney and Chicken Offals with Rice — Offal duo rice plate
• Braised Tero Tero with Rice — Braised intestine over rice
• Stir-Fried Shredded Potatoes in Sour Sauce with Rice — Hot-and-sour potato rice plate
• Shredded Potato and Green Pepper with Rice — Potato and pepper rice plate
• Stir Fried Smoked Pork, Dried Tofu and Celery with Rice — Smoked pork and tofu rice plate

Noodle Soup With Stir-Fried Toppings

• Sweet Sour Shredded Pork on Noodle Soup — Yu xiang pork heaped over soup noodles
• Kung Pao Chicken Noodle Soup — Kung pao chicken topping on noodles
• Stir-Fried Pork Liver with Pickled Veges Noodle Soup — Liver and pickles over hot noodles
• Stir Fried Pork with Green Pepper and Black Beans Noodle Soup — Twice-cooked pork noodle soup
• Pork Kidneys with Pickled Veges Noodle Soup — Kidney and pickle noodle soup
• Pork Kidneys and Chicken Offals with Pickled Veges Noodle Soup — Offal-lover's noodle soup with pickles

Frequently asked questions

What kind of food does Panda Noodles serve?

Sichuan-leaning Chinese food: noodle soups, dumplings and wontons, maocai hotpot bowls, stir-fries, rice plates, steamed buns and Chinese pitas, plus iced sweets.

Can I order online?

Yes — the full menu is online with pre-order for pickup times, plus delivery across many Auckland suburbs. Delivery fees apply and payment is taken securely online.

Can I swap the type of noodle in my dish?

Yes. Noodle dishes can be made with rice noodles or wide or thin glass noodles instead of the standard wheat noodles.

Are there vegetarian or gluten-free options?

The menu flags gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free items, and there are vegetable, tofu, fried rice and noodle choices. Note that food is prepared in shared areas, so allergen-free can't be guaranteed.

Is everything spicy?

Heat is central but not universal. Dishes like sweet and sour pork, egg fried rice, wonton in chicken soup and green vegetable and tofu soup sit on the milder side.

What are the dumpling fillings?

Dumplings come with pork and cabbage or pork and chive fillings, served fried, boiled, in sour soup or with sesame soy sauce.

What payment methods are accepted?

Secure online payments via Visa, Mastercard and PayPal.

Tips

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Good to know

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