Xi'An Food Bar 西安饭庄

I went three times during a long stay in Auckland. I strongly recommend going here if you are looking for hand-pulled noodles in a casual setting. The noodles are pleasantly chewy, prepared quickly, and there are about 10 different preparations to choose from, including a cold option. The cucumber salad was pretty good too!

Have visited here a handful of times when I come to Auckland. Always delicious. Often rotate between the vegetarian chilli oil noodles and the spicy beef soup. Both are delicious. My partner always gets the cumin lamb. Can’t go wrong

My favourite place in the whole of Auckland for noodles. Don’t underestimate this small shop tucked away in the corner. The cumin lamb noodles are the best - flavour is spot on, noodles are nice and chewy and portion size is perfect. Always find myself coming back every couple months.

Í couldn’t get in the door the first time since it was so busy! I almost gave up but came back a second time and found it well worth the wait! We enjoyed lamb and noodle soup. Absolutely delicious, well seasoned. I found their bread plain but it dipped in the soup and made a great au jour lamb sandwich

Xi Ann Food Bar is a cozy, small shop that punches well above its weight. They make their own noodles from scratch, which truly elevates the dish. We highly recommend trying their cumin lamb noodles—they’re delicious, packed with flavor, and the portions are huge, easily enough to share between two people. The unique, fresh quality of the homemade noodles and the well-balanced seasoning make for a memorable dining experience. One noodle cost about 15$.

Hearty portions and so cheap! And, importantly, tastey and interesting. A little oily and doughy but these are the plates we ordered. No AC, the place is a bit sweltering even when outside it's not hot.

It had been awhile since I had ordered from here but ordered dinner from here recently and I went back three times to order dinner to takeaway. I ordered the cucumber salad (#73), wonton soup (#84) and corned beef Chinese burger (#9). All of it was delicious and I'd highly recommend drizzling the chilli sauce from the salad onto the corned beef in the burger if you order it. Great flavour as the burger is quite dry without some sort of sauce. You could even stuff some of the salad in it too or just eat it together. I've ordered #8 in the past but it was just a bit too fiery for me and should have a two chilli rating rather than one chilli. Staff are nice.

There’s really nothing fancy about Xi’an but there’s a lot that’s special about it. You go there for the hand pulled noodle soup and it doesn’t matter which one you choose, it’ll be good. If you like authentic food that’s full of flavour and of amazing value, then this is the place. Xi’an is an institution that will outlast any fancy restaurant out there. Would I like a beer with my food, yea I would but also, I’m glad I don’t get to have one - healthier you know. My pork noodle soup was everything I wanted it to be, warming and perfectly seasoned, it was a simple dish so it was nice to add a little pickled garlic to it, that tastes like Chinese medicine and not garlic at all - super unique flavour, not spicy, not even garlicky. I always get pickled cucumber, every place does them differently and I love all of them, crunchy, fresh, spicy, saucy yum!