New Flavour Restaurant is northern Chinese food big on portions and yes, on flavour. Food is fresh and at pocket change prices with minimal service and a very casual atmosphere. It’s also open extremely late – if you’re hungry at 1 AM and looking for a snack, come here.

Chinese tea is refilled continuously for free. A spicy chilli oil as well as soy sauce and black vinegar are plentiful for dumpling dipping according to your taste.

New Flavour is best in a group of four or more, with plates like the garlicky eggplant or deep-fried pork belly shared between you on the Lazy Susan.

Overview

Price Range Cheap & cheerful
Ambience Relaxed atmosphere
Noise level Upbeat
Food Options Vegetarian

Products and specialities

Handmade dumplings (steamed or fried)
Handmade noodles
Side dishes

Hours

  • Mon -
  • TuesClosed
  • Wed -
  • Thurs -
  • Fri -
  • Sat -
  • Sun -
  • Holidays -
Reviews

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We love New Flavour! The dumplings are amazing, the eggplant and kumara are a must order - and free green tea! Perfect place for a massive group hang which will never set you back more than $15 per person. Beware the dumpling burps however!

Wanted to come here for so long but always queues out of the door. Finally managed to get a table and boy was it worth it. So many flavours. The dumplings were 10 out of 10 as were the garlic fried veg and yummy pickled mustard beef noodles. Can’t wait to go again, so much to try on the menu!

New Flavour is the king of late night eateries, it is open from 5pm to a staggering 3am every night apart from Tuesdays. It has the best handmade dumplings in town as well as a host of other delicious items on the menu. My typical order sounds like this: steamed vegetarian dumplings(sometimes in hot and sour soup in winter), dried tofu and cucumber salad, spring onion pancakes and deep fried chilli cumin squid. It is a tried and true combination that I rarely change. Jasmine tea is complimentary and the service is surly but efficient. 

Cheaps as chips and the best dumplings this side of China/ My personal favorutie the pork and fennel dumplings are sensational 

Dominion Road houses quite a few really good dumpling houses. New Flavour is up there with the best of them. With great prices and a host of delicious choices you won’t leave hungry. Items I’d recommend from the menu are the pork and chive dumplings, the cucumber salad and chicken noodles (pictured). The New Flavour experience is best enjoyed with mates as the dishes are perfect for sharing.

Best place in the Summer for dumplings and fried chicken, yummm.

Awesome dumplings and you gotta try the cucumber and tofu salad (there's a reason why you keep hearing about it). 

But seriously: the cucumber and tofu salad will change your life. 

New Flavour has become somewhat of a Mecca for dumpling lovers in recent times, but those in the know will tell you the eatery's tofu cucumber salad is the dish that keeps them loyal. Ribbons of tofu and cucumber, marinated in some sort of soy, chilli-flecked goodness. OMG.

Comment by Charlotte C.
Totally agree!! Nyum num

Delicious food! While it's not something I would have ordered myself, we got the tofu and cucumber salad as we saw it recommended – and very glad that we did. Fresh and super tasty. We also got the prawn, egg & chive dumplings, the pork & coriander dumplings, and the crispy sweet & sour pork, all of which were lovely and the 4 dishes was plenty for 4 of us. Will be back. Would recommend going in a group as the dishes are very generous, and probably a bit too much of a good thing if don't have enough people to order a few dishes to share. Very busy!