Joyful Chinese Restaurant

Had a birthday dinner with 10 friends last night. The food are great. I am from Canton. The Cantonese food here is the one of the best Chinese restaurants in Auckland. The service are very nice and friendly. My husband’s non-Chinese colleagues love the dishes too. The peking duck is so good. I love the sauce so much and no one take photos lol. Last night the restaurant was full house, so the space was a bit small for a big table. next time I might choose lunch time to come or dinner in weekdays.

Don't believe their photos. What you see is not necessary what you get. They prefer cash payment even when it costs so much!

Very reasonable price. We ordered snapper fish and chips. It was big and yum!Food: 5/5

Prompt service, authentic Chinese decor, friendly staff. My Sizzling Beef in black bean sauce & rice was delicious.

The owner charged me over $400 more and refunded after she got caught. Subsequently I found out more than 6 of my friends had been over charged by this woman. Absolutely terrible! Will never go back again!!! Be careful of your bill.

I decided to order a sweet and sour chicken - off menu but they were kind enough to make it, deep fried squid and deep fried wonton. The food tasted great. Really great food when I or my partner goes. Normally I wouldn’t have advertised this. But it’s quite upsetting when the owner would argue it can’t be them. I ate an apple for breakfast. I had a packaged bar energy drink and a beef jerky stick for lunch. this is normal for a work day for me, so not odd for my tummy All of that’s either packaged or should be absolutely fine. About 5 hours after eating the food I woke up in bed with severe stomach pain. And ran to the bathroom with diarrhoea and vomiting at the same time. All the food came up or out. It was really bad. I have never had a bad experience before. So I tried to call them to let them know it happened- NOT to get a refund and not to be mean. Only to let them know to be careful or if it happened again. Woman just denied it repeatedly over and over. Saying impossible. She couldn’t accept the fact I became sick. Hence the sad review. Sadly will not ever order again. Did not act appropriately toward customer and didn’t handle conversation well. I hope in the future they are more careful.

Please be careful dining here, the owner overcharges. We've once been overcharged by $100! Just make sure to check your bill before paying

Very authentic hongkong style chinese food. Love this place!

Only sad thing about Joyful is it used to be a good place to go with the family for brunch on the weekend now looks like the standard has dropped. Quite a few times have given them a chance but everytime we go on the weekend they are never open on time. If you say your open at 11am then you should be ready to serve customers, not when people come in round 11:10/11:15 and the staff are there eating their staff meal and giving you the stink eye for ordering and wanting to eat food and interrupting their staff meal. Food wise sad to say the standard has dropped as well, orderd the pekking spare ribs and beef brisket on rice was extra tough today especially unable to chew and when this was bought up with the owner just as a heads up the reply we were given were " ohh that's just how the beef arrived to is " with a oh our bad attitude. I mean if that's the answer given you might as well take the item off the menu then no? If it's your 1st time visiting there or you go as a group at night or maybe later on in the day " maybe " and that's a big maybe consider eating there.

Bad experience, over charged without telling. Double check your bills.