Luna Tea Chinese & Malaysian Cuisine sits on Aviemore Drive in Highland Park, combining a Malaysian and Chinese kitchen with a full bubble tea menu under one roof. The food side leans on hawker-style wok noodles — char kuay teow, char mee, mee mamak, wat tan hor, Hokkien mee — and soup noodles like curry laksa and Penang prawn noodle, alongside rice plates from Hainanese chicken rice to sizzling beef, mapo tofu and kung pao on rice.
The tea bar runs eighteen milk tea flavours, a Love Series of blended drinks, iced green and black teas, fruit slushies, yoghurt drinks and coconut milk toast. Orders go through the online menu for pickup or delivery, with secure online payments, and delivery reaches a long list of Auckland suburbs from Howick, Pakuranga and Botany Downs out to Flat Bush, St Heliers and Remuera. The listing carries a 4.2 rating on the ordering platform.
On Aviemore Drive in Highland Park, Luna Tea runs a kitchen and a tea bar side by side — and the full name, Luna Tea Chinese & Malaysian Cuisine, tells you exactly how the menu splits. One half covers Malaysian hawker classics and Chinese comfort dishes built around the wok; the other is a full drinks program of milk teas, fruit teas, slushies and yoghurt drinks. Everything can be ordered online for pickup or delivery across a wide slice of Auckland, with secure online payments and a 4.2 rating on the ordering platform.
The noodle section is the heart of it. Char Kuay Teow — fried rice noodles in the kitchen's traditional special sauce, which the menu calls 'very popular in Malaysia' — leads the top sellers alongside Curry Laksa, a bowl of yellow noodles and vermicelli in curry spices and coconut milk. Around them sit Char Mee, Char Bee Hon, Mee Mamak with tomato and tofu, Wat Tan Hor with its silky egg gravy, Hokkien mee in dark sauce, and Singapore-style prawn noodles and vermicelli, the prawn version flagged spicy.
The soup noodles hold their own: Penang Prawn Noodle with prawn and boiled egg, a clear Noodle Soup the menu describes as tasty, Tom Yum with rice or vermicelli, and Wonton Soup. Deeper bowls come from the rice noodle soup list — Fish Head Noodle Soup, a Super Seafood Rice Noodle in thick soup, and a tomato soup base rice noodle with sliced beef.
Rice lovers are well looked after. Hainanese Chicken with Aromatic Rice pairs steamed rice with chicken and a special ginger and chili sauce; Malaysian Fried Rice is done Mamak style, with curry and sambal fried rice variations nearby. From the Chinese side come sizzling beef or chicken on rice, sliced beef or chicken poached in hot chilli oil, mapo or braised tofu on rice, and kung pao chicken or prawn. Roti Canai, two pieces with curry sauce, rounds out the Malaysian table.
Snacks cover the crowd-pleasers — deep fried chips, onion rings, chicken nuggets, crispy chicken balls, mini spring rolls, fried squid rings, fried tofu, octopus balls and chicken skewers — with mixed vegetables in garlic sauce and a freshly cooked porridge for anyone wanting something gentler. Coconut and milk toast covers the sweet-snack corner.
Milk tea runs eighteen flavours deep: the Pearl Milk Tea and the house original alongside taro, coconut, lychee, sesame, French vanilla, chocolate, mocha, almond, hazelnut, mango, watermelon, honey dew, strawberry, Japanese green tea and a red bean option — plus Black & White, the classic coffee-plus-tea yuanyang. The Love Series blends pair flavours like mocha with Japanese green tea, or taro with vanilla and strawberry.
Beyond milk tea there are iced green and black teas with lychee, lemon, passion fruit, plum or Yakult; iced coffee and mocha; a long slushie list from peach and lychee through to matcha and taro; and yoghurt drinks in eight flavours.
Luna Tea takes orders online for both pickup and delivery, with pre-ordering and selectable pickup times. Delivery fees apply, but the reach is wide: the delivery map takes in Howick, Pakuranga, Botany Downs, Half Moon Bay, Bucklands Beach, Eastern Beach, Mellons Bay, Somerville, Shelly Park, Flat Bush, Dannemora and Golflands, and runs as far as Mission Bay, St Heliers, Glendowie, Meadowbank, Remuera, Ellerslie, Mount Wellington, Penrose, Otahuhu, Otara and Papatoetoe.
Hours run 11am to 7pm on Mondays and Wednesdays through Saturdays, with Tuesday split into lunch (11am to 3pm) and dinner (5pm to 7pm) sessions; Sundays are closed. One small-print note from the menu itself: the online menu price is different from the dine-in price, so expect a small gap between ordering in person and ordering through the site. Whether you are after a laksa on a cold evening, a wok-fried noodle fix, or a taro milk tea with octopus balls on the side, this Highland Park kitchen keeps both halves of its name well represented.