NOY's Barbecue in Manurewa is a small, focused Filipino barbecue shop on Great South Road in Hill Park. The menu doesn't try to be everything to everyone — it's built around what the grill does best: pork and chicken skewers, chopped pork belly, and a line-up of Filipino street-food classics like tero tero, pig ears, chicken feet and chicken liver.
At the heart of the menu are the three barbecue meals. Each pairs two pieces straight off the grill — pork skewers, chicken skewers, or chopped grilled belly — with yellow rice, cucumber, tomato, pickled papaya, peanut sauce and vinegar, so the plate arrives complete: smoky meat, cool vegetables, sharp pickles and two dips pulling in opposite directions.
Everything on the meal plates is also available on its own if you'd rather build your own spread, and online ordering through the website makes it easy to pick dinner up on the way home. NOY's is a small Auckland brand with a sister shop in New Lynn, and it shares updates on Facebook and Instagram as @noysbarbecue.
Great South Road runs the length of South Auckland, and along its Hill Park stretch in Manurewa sits NOY's Barbecue — a small shop with a short menu and a clear idea of what it's about. This is Filipino-style barbecue: pork and chicken over the grill, yellow rice on the plate, and the pickles and sauces alongside that make this style of cooking so moreish. There's no sprawling menu and no fuss — just skewers, belly, rice and the fixed set of sides that turn them into a proper meal.
Three plates anchor the menu, and they all follow the same formula. The Pork Barbecue Meal pairs two pork skewers with yellow rice, cucumber, tomato, pickled papaya, peanut sauce and vinegar. The Chicken Barbecue Meal does the same with two chicken skewers. And the Grilled Belly Meal swaps in two pieces of chopped pork belly for anyone who likes their barbecue rich and fatty.
That set of sides isn't decoration — it's the logic of Filipino barbecue on a plate. Cool cucumber and tomato settle the smoke; pickled papaya (atchara, in Filipino kitchens) cuts through the fat with sweet-sour sharpness; and the two dipping options sit at opposite ends of the flavour scale, the savoury depth of peanut sauce on one side and bright, clean vinegar on the other. Every element has a job, and together they make a couple of skewers feel like a proper dinner.
Every protein on the meal plates is also available on its own — pork skewers, chicken skewers and chopped pork belly, straight off the grill. And then there's the row of dishes that will stop any Filipino expat mid-scroll: tero tero, pig ears, chicken feet and chicken liver.
These are the cuts that define Filipino street barbecue — textural, adventurous and loved precisely because they're not the obvious choices. Pig ears bring crunch and chew, chicken feet turn sticky and gelatinous over the coals, liver is rich and quick off the grill, and tero tero is the small-skewer street style at the heart of it all. For anyone who grew up eating this food, finding it in Manurewa is reason enough to pull over. For everyone else, it's likely the most interesting eating on this stretch of Great South Road.
NOY's keeps the operation lean, and the website reflects it: a home page, a menu, a gallery and online ordering. That last one matters — with food built around skewers and rice plates that travel well, ordering ahead is an easy way to have dinner sorted on the way home. The brand also runs a sister shop in New Lynn on Great North Road, which handles the general contact details listed on the website, and stays active on Facebook and Instagram as @noysbarbecue.
The Manurewa branch sits at 185 Great South Road in Hill Park — an easy stop if you live nearby, work in the area or are passing through South Auckland. Opening hours aren't published on the website, so it's worth checking the socials before heading out.
What you can count on is the menu: skewers and belly off the grill, yellow rice and pickled papaya on the plate, peanut sauce and vinegar alongside. It's food with deep roots in the roadside grills and street corners of the Philippines, served here without pretension. Come hungry, order a meal, and add a stick of something adventurous on the side — that's how this food is meant to be eaten.