Home Taste Takeaway serves Hong Kong-style street food from 2c/15 Gooch Place in Somerville, Auckland, and holds a 4.4 rating from 30 Google reviews. Diners praise the beef brisket, steamed rice rolls and milk tea as authentic, generous and easy on the wallet.
Hong Kong-style takeaways live or die on their braises: brisket and similar cuts are slow-cooked until tender, and the best ones taste even better reheated the next day, so it is worth asking how to warm a dish at home rather than rushing it on the spot. Steamed rice rolls (cheung fun) are the opposite — best eaten fresh while the silkiness holds. A proper milk tea, strong black tea cut with evaporated milk, is a quiet test of whether a kitchen takes the classics seriously. Regulars tend to order a mix: one hearty braise, one fresh-made item, one drink.
For genuine Cantonese comfort food at modest prices in Somerville, Home Taste is the sort of neighbourhood find worth a detour.