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Advertise with NZME.Viva’s dining out editor Jesse Mulligan reviews a restaurant every week, to bring you the best of Auckland’s culinary scene. Here are 12 tried and tested dishes to get your mitts on ASAP
![<b><a href="http://www.viva.co.nz/article/food-drink/eating-out/restaurant-review-chicka-kingsland/"target="_blank">12. The papaya salad and spicy fried chicken on the menu at Chicka restaurant in Kingsland.</a></b><p> “This [fried chicken] is much better than you get from the Colonel. Less greasy, although just as crunchy.” <p>Photo / Babiche Martens](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/Z7C6T3ELDLQFQSCPW7JPILAPKU.jpg?auth=1b8b52057fcf1de79c7cf1c26401b72d01b3ec9881d9680cb4ca4a74060863d7&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)
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7. The Curryflower dish from Satya Chai Lounge.
“Start with this curryflower (just tender, battered and heavily spiced cauliflower),” says Jesse, but don’t finish there. The whole menu is good at the Chai Lounge, with Jesse deeming the snacks as perfect as they can possibly be.
Photo / Rebecca Zephyr Thomas
