Empress of India is an Indian restaurant on Great South Road in Wiri, Manukau City, holding a 4.0 rating from 509 Google reviews. Diners praise the quick, friendly service and dishes like butter chicken with naan, though a few have complained about the size of the rice servings; its website has further details. A good neighbourhood curry house lives or dies on the basics: curries cooked to order so the sauce still has lift, naan pulled from the tandoor rather than reheated, and staff happy to turn the heat up or down when asked. Rice and breads are usually charged separately from the mains at Indian restaurants, so it pays to check portions before you order. On a working stretch of Great South Road, where plenty of customers pick up dinner on the way home, that mix of speed and comfort food is what diners here are after, and Empress of India sits right in it.