Aksorn's Thai Kitchen is a family-run Thai restaurant located at 281 Greers Road in Bishopdale, Christchurch. The restaurant is the project of chef Sema, who has returned to the Christchurch dining scene with her flavours and skills in a new kitchen, named in honour of her eldest daughter Aksorn (known as Fern), who works alongside her in the restaurant.
The kitchen is built around a menu of mainstream Thai dishes enriched with well-known family recipes — including Sema's own unique Pad Thai sauce and the restaurant's popular hot and spicy Tom Yum soup. Noodle soup dishes, which have long been a signature of Sema's cooking, are also on the menu. The overall philosophy is a careful balance of spicy, sour, sweet, and salty flavours using fresh herbs and quality ingredients.
Aksorn's Thai Kitchen is fully licensed and also accepts BYO wine. Both dine-in and takeaway are available, and online ordering can be placed through their website. Parking is available at the back of the premises. The restaurant is open for lunch Wednesday through Sunday, and for dinner Tuesday through Sunday — closed Mondays.
Aksorn's Thai Kitchen is a family-run Thai restaurant at 281 Greers Road in Bishopdale, Christchurch — a neighbourhood suburb a short drive from the city centre. The restaurant is the work of chef Sema, a well-known figure among Christchurch's Thai food community, who returned to the restaurant scene after stepping away from her previous kitchen.
The name "Aksorn" was chosen deliberately: it is the Thai name of Sema's eldest daughter (also known as Fern), who works alongside her mother at the restaurant. Naming the business after Aksorn was both a personal gesture and a practical one — Sema wanted to distance herself from the name of her previous restaurant while keeping the family connection at the centre of the business.
Aksorn's menu is built around the mainstream Thai dishes most people know and enjoy, but each with the kind of depth that comes from family recipes refined over years. The Pad Thai features Sema's own unique house sauce — not the generic version found elsewhere — and the Tom Yum soup is described as one of the restaurant's most popular and well-known dishes: hot, spicy, and clearly the product of a specific recipe rather than a generic base.
Noodle soup dishes are also a key part of the menu. Sema's noodle soups were a long-standing favourite at her previous restaurant, and their return to the menu was a deliberate part of how she shaped Aksorn's offering. The kitchen's approach is described as finding balance across the four core Thai flavour dimensions — spicy, sour, sweet, and salty — using fresh herbs throughout.
The full dine-in and takeaway menus are available as PDFs on the Aksorn website and via online ordering.
Aksorn's Thai Kitchen offers both dine-in and takeaway. The restaurant is fully licensed, and BYO applies to wine only. Online ordering is available through their website at online.aksornthai.co.nz for takeaway orders.
The restaurant is open for lunch Wednesday through Sunday from 11:30am to 2:30pm, and for dinner Tuesday through Sunday from 5:00pm to 9:00pm. Monday is the only day the restaurant is fully closed. Parking is available at the back of the premises.
Prices were updated in November 2024 — if you have an older menu, the prices on the website and via online ordering will be current.