米湘 Me & Chef is a restaurant on Corinthian Drive in Albany, Auckland, rated 4.5 from 726 reviews, with customers praising unique but not overly spicy flavours, generous portions, and dishes like beef on rice, crispy duck, a whole blue cod and eggplant with pork mince. The name points to Hunan, or Xiang, cuisine, a regional Chinese style traditionally built on chilli, garlic and smoky, cured flavours that run hotter and more pungent than Cantonese cooking, so a kitchen serving it here often dials the heat down while keeping that character intact for local tastes. A whole fish dish, like blue cod cooked whole rather than filleted, is a genuine test of a kitchen's timing, since the flesh needs to stay tender right through while the outside gets properly seared, which is harder to get right than cooking a portioned fillet. On Corinthian Drive in Albany, 米湘 Me & Chef brings that kind of regional cooking to the North Shore.