Innholdsfortegnelse for September - October 2019 i Metro NZ

The Ripe Deli team has put together a third helping of delicious recipes, following the success of their first two cookbooks. Arranged by season, recipes vary from fast, fresh salads and delicious quick meals to lovely slow-cooked goodness, plus plenty of Ripe’s famous cakes and slices. A Third Helping is filled with 150 recipes to feed the soul and delight your taste buds. Terms and conditions: Entry is open to New Zealand residents. Employees of Bauer Media Group (LP) NZ, their affiliates, agencies and immediate families are ineligible to enter. Entries are limited to one per person. This promotion commences on 5 September, 2019, and ends at midnight on 18 October, 2019. The promoter is Bauer Media Group (LP) NZ, Shed 12, City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley St West, Auckland.…

1927: The first Volvo car, Volvo ÖV 4, left the assembly line, created out of concern that no one was making cars safe enough for Swedish roads. 1959: Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, an innovation shared with the entire automotive industry, protecting everyone – regardless of size, gender or body shape – saving more than one million lives. 1970s: The Volvo Traffic Accident Research Team was formed, gathering data from actual car accidents to find out what happens to real people in a crash – men, women and children. The analysis has led to many of the innovative systems in Volvo cars today. 1995: Volvo tested with a female crash test dummy, starting with the only available small-sized, female frontal-impact dummy. 2001: A small-sized side impact dummy…

We haven’t included food trucks in Cheap Eats 2019. Mainly because — with a few rare exceptions — you either can’t really predict where they’ll be, or if they have a fixed spot, it’s probably for lunch. But the Cheap Eats judging panel was unanimous in declaring their love for the following: HAPUNAN Hapunan’s food is at the forefront of Auckland's new wave of Filipino cuisine. We love the signature purple ube pandesal and their twist on the traditional adobo, made rich with coconut cream. @hapunan THE LUCKY TACO Still one of Auckland’s best food trucks: go for the horchata, the tongue taco (slow-cooked and rich) and the excellent music. Outside 230 Ponsonby Road on Saturdays. theluckytaco.co.nz @theluckytaco_nz PŪHĀ AND PĀKEHĀ Maori-inspired food, including possibly New Zealand’s best tuatua fritter, from…

Now represents the best time in the past six years for first-time home buyers to enter the Auckland housing market. Requirements around Loan to Value Ratios (LVRs) have loosened, while house price increases have stalled, interest rates are at their lowest ever and choice is good. For those who are prepared to go with ‘next generation’ housing — apartment living or close density, terrace-type housing with a minimal section — the pipeline of developments hitting, or about to hit the market, makes choice even better. This golden situation is likely to exist through the remainder of this calendar year, and may even improve if mortgage interest rates fall further than those currently on offer. There is still the question of getting a deposit together, but there are far more options…

Word on the street is that it’s hard to get on the property ladder. Nobody’s denying that – especially in Auckland. But what if it isn’t the mirage you’ve been imagining, or the ladder as lofty as you first thought? We talked to a diverse range of first home buyers who discovered – thanks to the help of tight saving schemes, supportive lending consultants, family assistance, grants, and cost-effective new builds – that the first rung wasn’t as slippery as they’d anticipated. A TURN-KEY ENTRY TO THE MARKET WITH A HOMESTART GRANT Rebecca and James were flatting with a minimum of eight people in a energy efficient three- storey house on Cornwall Park before they purchased, and knew they wouldn’t be able to find a house in that area in…

21 DAYS BAR & BRASSERIE 37 Clyde Road, Browns Bay, Auckland Ph 0800 21 32 97 info@21days.co.nz 21days.co.nz NZ cuisine, international steaks, outside dining. Views of Browns Bay, private dining room with views of Rangitoto, functions for 13~130. Breakfast, lunch and dinner — Tues–Sun 9am-10.30pm. BESOS LATINOS RESTAURANT M16 41 Elliot Street, Auckland Ph 09 303 0217 www.besoslatinos.com Nestled at the very back of the quaint Elliott Stables is a treasure trove of authentic Latin American gourmet delights. Besos Latinos – Latin Kisses - is run by Mexican artist Cecilia Mijangos, partner to international award-winning chef Luis Cabrera. The beautifully decorated space is an elegant and inviting evocation of old world hacienda and quaint pueblo marketplace. Besos Latinos has been deeply committed to bringing authentic Latin American gourmet cuisine to New…

The queen of property’s A Fabulous Failure inspires many: Nikki shares her personal testimony of how she used her failed businesses and relationships to propel her into her current happiness and success. With endearing honesty and a healthy dose of humour, Nikki unpacks how property investment played a key part in her comeback, motivating her to help others to harness their disappointments and take well-informed steps towards their own financial independence. ‘Such a great read. I am inspired by your tenacity, initiative, never give up attitude and passion of drive.’ B Smith…

When a Hollywood production of Pania of the Reef comes to Aroha Bridge, millennial Māori and aspiring musician Monty Hook protests. “We should tell our own stories, not Hollywood,” he argues. “Our cultural stories are not for sale.” This is until Monty’s own accidental acting career picks up. He starts to land roles such as “hooded youth number 5”, “suspicious dude number 8” and “thug number 2” for the all-too-common pay rate of “exposure”. But before long, his continual portrayal of the stereotypical “Māori and/or Pacific Island man” starts to have a negative impact on his community, influencing young people’s hopes and dreams, increasing police profiling and shaping media bias. Getting new and complex archetypes onto our television and movie screens seems to happen at glacial speed. While it is…

Auckland is, as it often is, at a crossroads. On 12 October, we will  choose our next mayor — a stark choice between two very different candidates offering two very different approaches to governing our city, and two very different visions for our future. As seems to be increasingly common in elections around the world, the choice is between a pragmatic, buttoned-down bureaucrat and a freewheeling, loose-lipped populist. In his column on page 30, Matthew Hooton lays out the failings of Phil Goff’s mayoralty to date: housing in Auckland remains in crisis, in part because of a lack of action on updating Auckland’s building code and consent process (see also Shamubeel Eaqub’s ‘Generation Rent revisited’ on page 64); there’s been no progress on his plan for a second harbour crossing;…

Festivals GOING WEST WRITERS FESTIVAL 6-15 September Go west to hear words of wisdom from New Zealand’s best and up-and-coming storytellers, including Apirana Taylor, Elizabeth Knox and Carl Shuker. Look out for the annual Poetry Grand Slam, film screenings and the launch of Witi Ihimaera’s second memoir, Native Son. Various locations, goingwestfest.co.nz TEMPO DANCE FESTIVAL 2-12 October Among the headliners of this home-grown festival (above) is an intimate show by choreographer Parris Goebel, Girl, looking into the journey to feminine power; Sau E Siva Creatives presents Fa’asinomaga | Identity, with more than 50 performers; and inventive young choreographers respond to the haunting music of Aldous Harding in Dances with Aldous. Various venues, tempo.co.nz ART OF WINE 2019 14 October We’ve appreciated recent efforts of the general wine world to make…

Henare, a 30-year-old writer living in Auckland, is telling me about his most disastrous date in recent memory. “It started off well and we were talking about our personal lives, so I raised being part Māori and how it impacted my childhood, which she thought was really cool,” he tells me. “Later, when we were another drink in and the conversation got flirtier, she asked me if it’s true that Māori dudes have big dicks.” Henare found the question off-putting, but brushed it aside, and the two ended up back at his place, where the woman showed intense interest in his Māori art and asked him to wear his pounamu toki. Despite these red flags, things got hot and heavy, and during sex the woman asked Henare to tie her…

In the age of globalisation, you can read this city’s ethnic makeup in its affordable restaurants. If there’s one thing that has changed in Auckland beyond recognition over recent decades, it’s our food scene — it's shifted from staid and particular to diverse and dynamic within a generation. Along previously somnambulant suburban shopping strips, and in newly developed neighbourhoods in the city’s north and east, there’s new life from a thousand small restaurants. And, by and large, they’re very cheap places to eat. Price aside, the most delightful thing about them? They’re not for white people. White people are very welcome, of course — these restaurants are probably the most frequent way with which the many and varied cultures of Auckland interact with each other — but, increasingly, new…

SUPREME WINNER: Taste in Memory This small suburban Chinese joint, which swerves from Sichuan to Shanghai and still manages to hold it all together, is the business. A menu covering breakfast, lunch and dinner. Fantastic food, including the year's best dish. And great service, with just enough attitude. BEST SERVICE: Jai Jalaram Khaman Some of the warmest service we’ve experienced, anywhere. On a recent visit after a talk about ingredients, the owner bustled into the kitchen, reappearing with a hand-drawn map of recommended Indian supermarkets, along with a list of what to buy where. Outstanding. RUNNER-UP: Baifu Dumpling BEST VALUE: Guilin Rice Noodles While it’s hard to go past Thai Nam’s $6.50 banh mi, it’s Guilin’s free noodle top-ups for a $14 bowl of noodles that takes the, uh, rice…

God, you wouldn’t want to have lived in 1950s Auckland. It was dull, dark and frightening; a city so repressed and constrained that the only glimmer of hope was when Rock Around The Clock opened at the Regent Theatre. It was like lightening had struck Queen St and opened a chasm of hope for the future. The movie was banned for months as the censors pored over the implications of freeing up the spirits and bodies of young teens. This was a country where virginity was supposedly sacrosanct; where sex and sexuality was simply not discussed; where if you were not married by 21, there was something seriously wrong with you; where people were hung in Mount Eden Prison at 6am on a Friday and buried within the prison walls;…

Rents are still increasing year-on-year, but at a slower rate. Landlords who have properties managed by Barfoot & Thompson can enjoy an extra sense of security knowing we recently received REINZ Property Management accreditation. “Barfoot & Thompson is committed to setting the highest standards for their Property Management division,” Director Kiri Barfoot says. The accreditation is a win not only for property owners but also the tenants who interact with property managers. Barfoot looked at average weekly rents for nearly 17,000 properties at the end of June, and found that Aucklanders are now paying around $17 more per week to rent a home than they were this time last year — the lowest annual rate of change recorded over the past several years. “The proportion of year-on-year weekly rent increases…

The standard deposit for a home is 20 per cent, but what many first home buyers don’t realise is that the rules have eased for low deposit lending, and TSB can now lend up to 90 per cent to some borrowers. TSB also offer the Welcome Home Loan supported by Housing New Zealand, which allows first home buyers to purchase with a 10 per cent deposit. Speak to your lending consultant about KiwiSaver as it could help you get into your first home sooner. You might also be eligible for an even bigger boost from KiwiSaver with the HomeStart grant or First-Home withdrawal. You may have the income to service a loan, but need a family member’s help with the deposit. It may be gifted – with or without an…

When you first start to hear people talking about natural wine, one of the first questions it implies is, “If this is natural, is other wine unnatural?” I asked the same thing when, a couple of years ago, I first tasted a wine from Libiamo — the younger-generation sub-label of New Zealand wine’s organic and biodynamic pioneers Millton. While Libiamo doesn’t label itself as such, in taste, texture, technique and (let’s be honest) aesthetic, it’s very much in line with what we’ve come to loosely categorise as ‘natural wine’. So if Libiamo is ‘natural’, what are the Millton wines? Organic? Sure. Biodynamic? Yes. But natural? Conventional? Industrial? These questions reappeared while drinking Libiamo’s three recent 2018 releases — a blend of four white grapes; a muscat à petits grains; and…

My grandmother Nancie Morton made this green dress (01) when she was a young teacher in Auckland in the 1930s. Her mother was a seamstress and taught her to sew. It has incredibly fine embroidery and would have been saved for special occasions. I remember Grandma kept some dance cards from that era with gentlemen’s names lined up in neat handwriting. She ended up marrying a farmer and living in Papamoa. He died when my dad was young, and my dad died when I was young, so I didn’t know either of them, but I’ve always been surrounded by strong females. Grandma had very firm ideas about a lot of things, especially clothing and quality. The dress is so delicate I don’t dare wear it, but I love to look…

Promises Promises: 80 Years of Wooing New Zealand Voters Claire Robinson Massey University Press, $59.99 Reading Promises Promises: 80 Years of Wooing New Zealand Voters, I found it impossible not to wonder whether Dr Claire Robinson has expertly documented an era of mass political communication that is coming to an end in the internet age. It is a “visual history of New Zealand politics” told primarily through striking reproductions of newspaper advertisements, flyers, manifestos, pamphlets and posters, some stills from television broadcasts, and a scattering of very recent internet ads. Political advertising speaks through metaphor, and New Zealand parties have developed a particular dialect in making their pitches to the electorate: wellbeing is depicted as families on beaches, for example; economic progress in the 80s was shown by pitches in…

01 Has the country ever been less excited about a Rugby World Cup? 02 Are we all scarred from that whole cricket thing? 03 Hosted a measles party lately without knowing it? 04 Want a two-storied 18-lane Harbour Bridge? 05 Or is it more of a Shelbyville idea? 06 How many lanes would you promise to be elected mayor? 07 Has there ever been a baby boomer less popular with baby boomers than Phil Goff? 08 John Tamihere? 09 Speak of which — Dear Landlord, can I please have a three-year rent freeze? 10 Is that how this works? 11 Has climate-change “inquirer” Matt King looked into anything for very long apart from his mirror? 12 Has Philip Morris tried to sell you their “innovative alternative to traditional smoking” yet?…

Yeshe Dawa is apologising for talking too much. This is despite the fact I’m visiting her cosy Mt Albert home precisely because I want to hear what she has to say. She’s not used to talking; she’s more of a listener. She likes to ask gentle, probing questions, and hold your gaze while you answer, hands clasped around a mug of tea and a thoughtful look on her face. This ability to be quiet, to pull back and listen, is a point of difference Dawa believes will make her an asset if she’s voted onto the Albert-Eden Local Board in the local body elections this October. That and the fact that, at 33, she’s a good deal younger than most local board members. You might know Dawa as the Midnight…

This year, we thought we’d do a few things a little differently — namely, we decided we’d judge the Cheap Eats list in much the same way as we’d judge Restaurant of the Year. Oh, the prices might be different, and there’s usually no wine list, let alone a sommelier or an amuse-bouche that you didn’t order and for which you won’t be charged (actually, not many places do this any more, but you know what we mean), and there aren’t many fancy fit-outs here — though there are a few spots where the fit-out has its own kind of charm (take a bow, Sunny Town and Bo’s Dumpling, you’re doing swell). As in previous years, we assembled a panel of knowledgeable food critics and writers, bloggers and 'grammers, along…

B BAIFU DUMPLINGS 475 Khyber Pass Rd, Newmarket BANNSANG 1C/47 High St, central city BO’S DUMPLINGS 14-18 McDonald St, Morningside BURGER BURGER 4 Brown St, Ponsonby (also at 3B York St, Newmarket, and 40 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna) C CAFE ABYSSINIA Tulja Centre, 190 Stoddard Rd, Mt Roskill CHONGQING NOODLES 340 Dominion Rd, Balmoral (also at 23A Wellesley St, central city) CHU LONG JI 11/20 Link Dr, Wairau Valley CIELITO LINDO 14 The Concourse, Henderson D DUMPLING ACE 39 Pearn Pl, Northcote E EDEN NOODLES 105 Dominion Rd, Balmoral G GORKHA KITCHEN 1 Eastern Beach Rd, Eastern Beach (also at 262 West Coast Rd, Glen Eden) GUILIN RICE NOODLES 263 Dominion Rd, Balmoral H HUNGRY HEAD 8C Torrens Rd, Burswood I IPOH MALAYSIAN CUISINE 598 Remuera Rd, Remuera J JAI JALARAM…

As property becomes more and more precious and expensive in Auckland, people are looking to alternate housing options. Body-corporate buildings are an interesting alternative to stand-alone homes as land options become increasingly limited and developers build up instead of out to create more housing. For homeowners who may be over general maintenance (mowing the lawn, caring for gardens and big repairs), this lifestyle could be a feasible option. Sure, some concessions will have to be made, such as sharing space with others, but the increased convenience makes it all the more appealing. Body-corporate buildings are no longer just for single people or students in central urban areas. Adriana Radich, Manager of Barfoot & Thompson’s Body Corporate division, says families with children, retirees, couples and others are looking into these living…

In Ancient Rome, circa sometime BC, cacio e pepe was the dish of shepherds. They would accompany their grazing sheep as they munched through the Apennine Mountains, and would carry some hard, aged pecorino, pepper and dried pasta to fuel their herding. Thousands of years later, in New York, circa 2016, it became the dish of exposed-brick bistros lit with Edison bulbs. Long strands of pasta glistened on our Instagram feeds, speckled with what seemed like an excessive amount of cracked black pepper. TimeOut called it “New York’s trendiest dish of 2016”. As Momofuku’s David Chang said, “Salt, spice, umami, dairy, and texture. It’s in the pantheon of perfect dishes. You cannot make cacio e pepe better.” Yet, he tried, and perhaps succeeded. Momofuku Nishi’s “ceci e pepe” — using…

New Zealand property queen Nikki Connors knows the investment property market. She’s been around for longer than most, and has guided clients through multiple property cycles. “Property is, and will remain, the best long-term investment option for most of us,” says Connors, principal of Propellor Property Investments. “I know how to manage the bad as well as the good times in property investment. I have spent many years studying my subject, and for the last 20 years I have been very successful in the buying and selling of investment property. For the last 10 years, I have also been advising and guiding my investor clients.” Last year she copped flak for her predictions about the property market, but she was right — about interest rates softening, about large-scale property developments…

America did not invent comics, or even — depending on how you feel about Tintin, Moebius, or Japanese manga — perfect them. But America gave the world Calvin and Hobbes, Dykes To Watch Out For, Carl Barks’ Scrooge McDuck, and a bazillion other comics I adore. That’s why it has always struck me as profoundly bizarre that American movie-going audiences will run a mile if you ask them to deal with subtitles. Images combined with text: apparently this is mainstream fare on a page, but indigestible elitism on a screen. If there’s a breakout French thriller cleaning up at the international box office, you can count on Hollywood to remake it, safe in the knowledge that the heartland audience won’t have seen the original. They’ll probably cast Liam Neeson. This…

BIBIART GALLERY Permanent exhibition of abstract expressionism paintings with rich and vibrant colours and mixed media artworks made with special techniques. The BIBIART Gallery is part of Artweek Auckland, 12-20 October 2019. The big opening is October 12, 2-8pm. Shop 4/5-15 Victoria Rd, Devonport Biljana Snjegota - Professional Artist MFA bibiart.co.nz NEW ZEALAND MARITIME MUSEUM Takiri - : An Unfurling Edmiston Gallery 12 October 2019–7 June 2020 Takiri - : An Unfurling joins the ongoing dialogue around early encounters between Maori - and Europeans in Aotearoa 250 years ago. Seven contemporary artists explore the impact of these events through new work inspired by museum taonga. maritimemuseum.co.nz MAPURA STUDIOS Mapura Studios is an inclusive creative space working with people of all abilities. We offer innovative and exciting multi modal arts programmes…

When Andrea Camilleri died in July, he left behind him a couple of dozen novels featuring the ironic and restless Inspector Salvo Montalbano and his investigations in Vigata. The fictional Baroque town is somewhere in Sicily, the motherland of Cosa Nostra and Camilleri’s home turf. It’s also the place, notes Montalbano in The Pyramid of Mud (2018), where it’s believed that adultery is behind every suspicious death. The police procedurals, which combine standard Italian with Sicilian dialect, are spectacular hits. Sicily’s increased tourism is partially attributed to the ‘Montalbano effect’. Camilleri and his wily detective may also have led non-insular Italians to reassess their view of the natives as yokels. Sicilians, the author once explained, “carry the blood of 13 different occupying powers. The result is that we have the…