The China Kitchen
The China Kitchen is a Chinese restaurant at 21a Main North Road, Papanui, Christchurch, inside the Papanui/Northlands commercial centre.
Checked 16 Oct 2026
If there is one thing The China Kitchen is famous for, its dumplings! A must have to start your meal. This family owned restaurant has fresh affordable meals, with so many delicious options you may find it hard… more ↓
21a Main North Road
Its own website lists
Read from the site itself 2 Oct 2026, Its own website.
Reviews
Getting there
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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.
Nearby
Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.
The nearest other restaurants
Also in Papanui
What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | 21a Main North Road, Christchurch 8053 | OpenStreetMap |
| Kind | Restaurants, Chinese | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +64 3 354 6818 | OpenStreetMap |
| Website | chinakitchen.co.nz | OpenStreetMap · its own site agrees |
| Menu | chinakitchen.co.nz | Its own website |
| NZBN | 9429032793512, NZ Limited Company | NZBN register |
| Registered name | THE CHINA KITCHEN LIMITED | NZBN register |
| Registered since | 15 Apr 2008 | NZBN register |
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How the council’s directory described it
If there is one thing The China Kitchen is famous for, its dumplings! A must have to start your meal. This family owned restaurant has fresh affordable meals, with so many delicious options you may find it hard to make a selection! Licensed and BYO. Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11.30am-10pm
— Find Christchurch, 2024. The business’s own words from about 2024, repeated as a lead, not checked.
The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Town centre zone | District Plan |
| Commercial centre | Papanui/Northlands, district centre | District Plan |
| Consent CRC040847 | Hazardous Storage, held by Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited, 9 m from the pin | ECan consents |
Tree Planted to Commemorate Diamond Jubilee Papanui
Rotary Club of Papanui / 25th Anniversary / 1983What stood on Main North Road
From Kura Heritage Collections Online. This photograph names the street, not this business. The street page pairs it with a Street View pose verified outside Shields Pharmacy, 2019-06. The street’s then and now →
The reports nearby
1,199 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 1,021 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
The 1,199 reports on file
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Traffic Signals
General Request
Pavement - General
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A Chinese restaurant in Papanui, Christchurch.
21a Main North Road, Papanui, on Main North Road. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap and in the council’s 2024 directory.
phone 03 354 6818, its website.
The China Kitchen Restaurant (23 m), The Station Restaurant (138 m), Phuket (148 m), every one in the city.
the address’s own record holds 2 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Christian Value Books (6 m); the Main Nth Rd near Loftus St bus stop is 19 m away: routes 1, 27, 95, 125, Oa; a cycle lane passes the door; nearest park: Papanui Memorial Reserve (129 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Find Christchurch, the council’s business directory, a snapshot last touched about March 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Environment Canterbury’s active resource consents, recorded where the consented activity happens (CC BY 4.0)
- Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record, distances measured here from the pin
- Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer, lanes, separated paths and the named Major Cycle Routes (CC BY 4.0)
- The business’s own website, read politely by chch.live for contact details the open record is missing, re-checked monthly
- New Zealand Business Number register, the public facts every NZBN entity files (legal name, status, registration date, industry), matched here by name and address
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