Newton Cafe & Noodle Bar is a Malaysian restaurant on Newton Road in Newton, Auckland, rated 4.8 from 396 reviews, a family-run spot led by owner Bryan Lu. Regulars order the char kuey teow, wat tan hor, curry chicken with roti, mee goreng, nasi lemak with beef rendang and chicken laksa, alongside a proper coffee menu. Malaysian food draws on Chinese, Malay and Indian traditions in one menu, which is why a single restaurant can genuinely cover noodles, curries and roti side by side rather than specialising in just one style. Wok hei, the smoky char a wok picks up from very high heat, is the real test of a stir-fried noodle dish like char kuey teow, since it's something a home kitchen can rarely reproduce and separates a properly cooked plate from a mediocre one. On Newton Road in Newton, this family-run kitchen is where that kind of Malaysian cooking happens.