Thai curries, tom yum soup and rice noodles with tamarind sauce are the core of Chada Thai Restaurant, at 102 Pakuranga Road in Pakuranga, Auckland.
The menu includes green, panang, red and massaman curries with a choice of meat, and crispy pork belly stir-fried with black pepper and oyster sauce. Starters include curry puffs, prawn spring rolls, crumbed prawns on crispy rice noodles, chicken satay with peanut sauce, and fish cakes with red curry paste. Prawns are stir-fried in tamarind sauce, and there is a thin-sliced grilled beef salad with a mild spicy lemon dressing. The restaurant takes pick-up orders, open Tuesday to Sunday from 4.30pm to 8.15pm.