Picturesque Seaside Village + Persian Food - Devonport, North Shore, AUCKLAND
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2021
- Devonport is a historic, pretty seaside village in North Shore, Auckland. There are two volcanic cones Mt Victoria (Takarunga) and North Head (Maungauika) which are a must visit in Devonport.
For lunch we got our takeaways from Arkdeniz, a Persian restaurant in Devonport. Delicious with generous portions, it was very filling and also in short walking distance of Windsor Reserve right next to Devonport Beach which was where we enjoyed our meal. Be sure to call well ahead if ordering takeaways as they're very popular.
Arkdeniz Bar Cafe Restaurant
Address: 5-15 Victoria Road, Devonport, Auckland 0624
www.akdenizdevonport.co.nz/
Both Mt Victoria and North Head offer fantastic panoramic views of Auckland's skyline and harbour. They're also in short driving distance of each other. You can't drive to either summit anymore, but it's only a short easy 10-15 min walk to the top.
#devonport #auckland #newzealand #nz
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VLOG DATE: 02 Nov 2021
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We added a little "easter egg" into this vlog 😁 Comment if you spotted it 😉
Yes! At 7:11 :)
Haha spotted it! Sneaky lol
@@shiveshlal13 lOL
Boing boing boing,around the 7 minute mark
YESSSS, I saw it!
I'm so impressed with Yen's concentration while the kids squawked like seagulls in the background. Those were some spectacular seagull calls! 😂🤣
Haha thank you thank you 😁 I could definitely hear them the entire time but was determined to try get the names of our dishes right while it was still fresh in my mind 😅😂
love how Yen is so calm talking in front of camera despite 2 kids behind screaming their heart out with those seagulls!!😂😂
Hahahaha she is a professional
Thanks for featuring lovely Devonport , bought back memories for me , I was born there
No worries glad we were able to bring you back to Devonport 😊
Love your videos! A big fan!
Too kind! Thank you 😁🙌
That Persian Food Looks Delicious ! Our last NZ holiday was in Oct 2015 . We walked around Devonport and North Head on a perfect Spring day and my wife fell in love with the area . When we win lotto ......
That would've been such a great day! It was pretty windy and cloudy when we went but still beautiful 😊👍🙂
Peter with disappearing gun joke LOL Btw, it looks super windy and Peter seems okay haha..
Hahaha stiff hair 🤣
Peter & Yen as away's your video's never disappoint - as titled "Picturesque Seaside Village"....definitely not a bad place to live - but as you pointed out, "do you have a couple of million to spare"...lol. ( Peter those lamb shank's man.....damn! )
Hahahaha the lamb shank was made even better cause the flavor of the sauce was so new to me. Each time i have a lamb shank I wanna say it's the best one I've ever eaten 😂
Auckland house prices 😅...
Nice place. Have put this in our NZ bucket list. Wow!! The food looks delicious 😋 and yummy. As usual Peter makes me hungry! 😁
Hahahaha I just react in the way that the food makes me feel. In this case it's the feeling of never having a flavor before and finding out it is incredible!
Live in Brisbane now,but lived in Takapuna and travelled to Devonport often.Love Devonport,thanks for the memories.
We're glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Omg, my wife and I are so hungry right now haha, and yeah homes are pricy in the North Shore especially in Dev/Takapuna areas. Thanks for sharing your foodie vlogs 😊
North shore lifting up those median Auckland house prices hahahaha. Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video 😁🤙
Ooohhh Im so hungry. But i am in Otahuhu. i think i will go to the Hangi shop.
Devonport is great to visit, i have DJ'd there several times and always walk down to the beach after to chill.
Mmmmm hope you had a mean as hangi 😁🤙
You had me at the lamb shank !…big follower and fan…😁😂😍
Hahahaha hope you're both doing well in the lockdown ❤ glad you enjoyed the shank!
So nice to see Devonport, I lived under Mt Victoria in Kerr street in the 70’s. Devonport is the naval base suburb of Auckland. A village is a bit of a different name. It’s lovely to see all the changes. The Esplanade Hotel has changed a lot from the 70’s but it was our 2nd home. 😂😂 thanks for doing this.
Nice hope the video was able to bring back some nice memories for you 😁🤙
@@PeterandYen your South Island trip was my old stomping ground growing up. Family in Carlin’s, Invercargill, Stewart island, Dunedin. Was great to see it all. My moari gt grandmother x 4 back was the first female to be born on Stewart island in 1800’s. Was good to see the place. Thx 🙏
“You and your lamb shanks…” Yessss… thank you for your lamb shanks Peter😋😋😋. Looooove Persian food!! My wife is a big koobideh fan like Yen…. There was a period for about a month where I was buying koobideh for her weekly… great food choice guys!!!
Next time you guys go to a grassy hill, scratch the cardboard… get a big block of ice, put a towel on top to sit on and slide down the hill… I guarantee it’s much more fun than cardboard… and much faster😁
Great video again guys😊.. and with that, there’s an event I gotta get ready for and I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date! No time to say 'hello, goodbye!
The Koobideh was so good, just typing this I can remember the flavors as i stole some from yen. Salivating... love that it has the aromatic spice with the meat 🍖
That ice 🧊 idea sounds awesome but we don't have any easy way to get our hands on one of those unless we clear out the freezer 😂
Dude only look further if you've seen the fights...
😥 bitter bitter disappointment
@@PeterandYen Aye yaaaaaaa... so sad😭😭.. So close...
Back when I was a kid you can buy these big blocks of ice... I'm sure if you put Detective Yen on the case, she'll find you guys some ice 😁
😂 this one I think even the detective might get stuck never seen them in New Zealand before not even once.
Yeah I think it's actually worse... 🤔 for a person like weili I think it'll be hard to let this one go
I love Devonport! ❤️
I'm amazed Peter didn't try sliding down the side of the hill on a cardboard box 🤣
Hahaha a part of me wanted to ask the kids if they'd lend me their card board box for one slide. Never knew about this place 😅
@@PeterandYen next time, Peter, next time 😉
oh wow look at all that food looks tasty
Was super yummy 👌
Love your travel videos...you just reminded me to do a sunset shoot at Devonport :)
Thanks glad you enjoy them ❤ sunset photo shoot sounds 🔥
I move to Devonport soon, so happy 😀
omg honestly we never try Persian food before!! the rice does look like Afghani kabuli palaw. Agree with the lamb shank, massive and we'll definitely order that haha
To me the taste is pretty similar to Afghani food 👌 I really like the herby flavors in the rice 🍚 having the rice from different cultures is one of my favorite things
Hi Peter ,Hi Yen , Loved your vlog , That Persian cusine looked fantastic......😋😋😋. I ,' am glad you took your hoodie Yen , It got kinda windy & cloudy huh?. You two be safe ....🙏🙏🙏
Yes! It's been crazy windy here lately. But looks like aussie has been getting it worse. Finally the storms are starting to settle down now. You take care too ❤
those kids in the background though.....bahahahaha. Yum that persian kai looked GOOD!!
The Kai was awesome! Persian food is so tasty 🤤
Keep up with this blog, and you will buy a house in Davenport in no-time!! Hello from windy snowy Chicago!
Hahahaha 🤞
Hey you two! Your videos never disappoint! LOVE Persian food - Mike from out West
Thanks Mike! Persian food is so good ay. What's your fave dishes? 🤤
$3M dollars daaaamnn 😂 feeling so broke hahaha! Lol those kids chasing the birds behind the scene are so cute! Love the picnic spread, and oh my, your grasses there is perfect for picnic. I wouldn't have pronounced or remember that name haha! Ooooof that lamb shank and rice, Peter's reaction got me jump off my chair haha! Omg that view!! 😍 Peter is like a kid so excited to see the gun lol! 11:07 so pretty and colourful birdie!! Good thing you guys could still go around despite the lockdown!
O my gosh yes! That is one big difference about Malaysia and Singapore grass vs new Zealand grass. Nz grass you want to lie down on and roll around in. Malaysia and Singapore you don't even wanna stand on it 😂
It was a tough Sunday morning, the natural positiveness from both of you was a good antidote, thanks!!! The Lamb shanks look so good, hope you had a spoon handy for all the lovely sauces😋.
Sorry to hear you had a tough Sunday morning L H! We hope it got progressively better tho and the new week ahead is infinitely better for you 🙂 Sending more positive vibes your way 🌈✨💫🌟🍃🧁🎈🙌
The forks were like sporks haha so got to enjoy the sauces aplenty 😁👌👍
@@PeterandYen Thank you 😊 , had a stray dog come up to me when I had my breakfast and felt her sadness, shared my breakfast with her. Will go back with some proper food for her tomorrow and call the SPAC. Never waste tasty food 😋especially with the rice there
Am sure she would've appreciated your kindness ❤️ hope everything worked out ok with the SPCA 🙂
I was born in a house toward the top of Mt. Victoria. It was the highest house on the mountain. It was demolished years ago. In 1942 the army took over the mountain for costal defence and we had to leave. My parents found a typical Victorian home in Devonport. This was the time when the Japanese were
Sorry pushed the wrong button. We’re expected to invade. Our new house was 4 bedrooms, living room, sun room, dinning room. With 12’ cielings. The house was made of Rimu and Kauri. When I checked 5 years ago it still had the origional Kauri siding. It was built I think in 1887. In tpdollars my parents paid $1,200.00 prices have changed a bit.
Wow.... imagine paying 1200 for that house and just holding it to this day. That's amazing just an awesome location in devenport too 👌
No way! I was literally just here the other day! Hiked up Mt Takarunga/Victoria :) Love the Devonport area. Great vid as usual ❤️
Aw thank you! Nice! When did you go? We went on Tuesday last week I think it was 🤔 Such a lovely area for sure 🙂👍
@@PeterandYen
Ahhhh my slow comment reply - just had a look at photos and it was the Friday before last. Time is doing some strange things atm, all the days are blurring!! It sure is :)
Great video Peter & Yen, wish we were over there and thank you for adding the prices in British pounds as well.. Take care both xx
No worries mate thanks for being patient with us. Taken a while 😅
Your vlogs are awesome
Thank you! Glad you enjoy them 😊
good video
Cheers Joseph! 🙂
You guys seem to be doing a tour of all my old PT spots this week and last week. You missed the fossil forest in Devonport though... or saving for future episode I guess.
Ooo didn't realise there's a fossil forest in Devonport... Or do you mean the one in Takapuna maybe? Haven't actually been to that so would be cool to check out. Thanks for the idea! 🙂👍
You guys always tempted me with good food 😋
Hahaha 🤤 best way to kick off the day 🤙
@@PeterandYen I don't know when I can eat til my heart content. I am currently on 1 meal a day to lose weight 🤣
Hahaha getting ready for that summer bod eh good luck 👍
@@PeterandYen Spring here is almost like summer 🤣. Nah, I gained so much weight during pregnancy and didn't drop much after gave birth. I just wanna fit my old clothes again 😩
I did spit the “Easter egg” character in the mushroom scene! 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha nice one Ray! 😁🐇🍄 He was late.. late for a very important date 😆
Devonport ❤️❤️
Starting with Persian food that looks so yummm! 😋
We need to try Persian good one day 😍
Wow only four disappearing guns left in NZ, so glad you can find two of them in Auckland.
3 millions beach house 😵 well, dream big Peter, you might be able to afford it one day, who knows haha 😁
Hahahaha... yeah who knows maybe one day if we win the lotto 😂
Oh my goodness! what a feast guys! the Persian food look insanely amazing!!! 4:10 love Peter's reaction 🤣 yeah, that shows how good it is! what a good picnic spot guys. could you finish the food? It seems quite a lot! 😲
Hahaha yeah it was quite a lot of food... I finished all of mine but yen had a bit left over which we boxed up for a snack for later 😂👍
What a lovely little seaside resort! The Belgian coastline is just 66 kilometers long for a country with over 11 million inhabitants, so 1.8 million euro for a seaside house would be a steal here ;)
That being said: I live 80 km away from the coast, where prices are 'a little bit' more reasonable, so don't jump to any conclusions on my personal wealth.
If you should ever come to Belgium (or the north of France), there are plenty of old military structures from WWI and II. Heck, there's a very big (closed to the public) one just 6 kilometers away from my home!
Whoa it must be such a luxury to get to coastlines let alone live along there! Always feel spoilt here in NZ where you don't need to go far and you hit some awesome sea/ocean views 🙂
Must be so interesting all the history and relics there.. NZ history is very young in comparison to most other countries 😅
@@PeterandYen it is very young, isn't it. Which makes it so refreshing!
Mmmmm salivating over the Persian food 😋
Each time we've had Persian food it's been a total winner 🏆 everything was amazing gotta go back cause there were 2 other things I really really wanted to try 🤤 house specialty olives 🫒 and the mixed platter🤤 have you had it much yourself Daryl?
@@PeterandYen we had Persian food while we were in Oman, which has a lot of cultural ties. Middle Eastern food is delicious, the spices and flavours 😋
Must have been so dang good in Oman 🤤 do you have a fav Persian dish?
@@PeterandYen anything with lamb and rice, although khoresht-e fesenjan is normally made with duck and is amazing. The sweets are dangerously yummy too. There was a chain called Isfahan (after the city) that did amazing sweets.
Mmm that sounds amazing! Haven't seen anything with duck on Persian menus will keep an eye out for it
Haha the disappearing gun joke 🤣🤣 Such a shame you guys couldn't tour around the tunnels but glad to hear that things will be improving soon!
🤞 retail is opening on Wednesday so we're on the up n up finally
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Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Lol I made the mistake of sitting down to eat some food I prepared myself while watching this video and my food ended up tasting like cardboard after watching all that yummy Persian food, also North Auckland looks gorgeous shame it's so expensive to buy there! And yes I spotted the literal Bunny and Easter egg lol.
Hahahaha yeah... Auckland property prices in general are pretty ridiculous already but 3 million is just ridiculous.
😂 the Persian food was particularly tasty 🤤
@@PeterandYen Yeah the food looked amazing, and man do you see the prices coming down to reasonable levels anytime soon lol ?
Interest rates are rising but traditionally what happens is prices stay flat rather than crash. New Zealand has such little supply of housing that all politicians need to do to support the inflated prices is let more ppl into the country and boom new bull cycle 😅
@@PeterandYen I hope that's just a short term strategy on their part because it doesn't sound very sustainable, if it were me I would lower interest rates, give government grants to builders to build more housing in pre determined areas that won't take away from the beauty of New Zealand, and eventually lower the cost of housing too rather than filling the country up with people that may not contribute to the betterment of Kiwi culture.
😅 they do all those things too. Long term, medium term and short term strategies have been used to get the prices to where they are now
More than 20 years ago when we first came to NZ, a real estate agent brought us around to view properties. He warned us not to buy in Devonport, 'coz was too old and might have many problems light water pipes. With my budget at that time which was below $450K, that should what it cost at that time. As for Persian food, there was also another one, Ziba Cafe in Henderson, which was quite good. Too bad they decided not to open for takeaway during level 3.
Ah wow 450 is a huge budget for back then. Hopefully you still got an amazing house somewhere nice 👌 thank you for the food recommendation!
pretty bottlebrush tree!!
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I'm planning to travel to Auckland in the future, is the bus/train packed during peak hours (7AM-8AM I assume)? Love the videos anyway, makes me excited to be there some day.
Glad you're enjoying the videos. 7 to 8 is pretty busy but you should still be able to get a seat 💺
Damn i was there last week also haha should be cool to have a walk together ;) Love this area
Ahh nice! Were you guys vlogging too? Great spot ay 🙂👍 Sunsets would be amazing from there!
@@PeterandYen nah i do real estate videos now so I travel everywhere to shoot some houses
Ayy that's so cool! Do you get to do special drone videos too? 🙂 Must get to see some awesome properties!
I must say NZ seagulls are nicer than AU seagulls (at least Sydney's). There's no chance we can eat peacefully here with that many seagulls haha.. Pigeons are okay but not seagulls, they're terrifying 😅
Hahahaha yeah.... aussie sea gulls are like aussie ppl and nz sea gulls are like nz ppl. I'll leave it at that 🤭
Devonport looks like such a nice place to live no wonder the prices are so crazy haha
😂 yeah Auckland in general has pretty crazy house prices but devenport is next level
I saw this pop up on my feed last night before it got taken down, did someone upload it early by mistake? I was confused because the videos always come out at the same time. Anyway great video as always :)
Cheers Matthew! Hahaha yea Peter accidentally scheduled the video incorrectly and I missed it in my post-upload checks so we both dropped the ball on that one 😂😅🤣
Nice video. Can you tell me what camera are you using?
Hello we use a fujifilm xt4
No I didn't spot the Easter Egg. ☹
However, it's an excellent video on Devonport, well done guys.
Might need to watch it again in slow motion around the Mt Victoria part for any unusual appearances 😆🐇
I spotted it second time around, I didn't need to slow down the video either. Not sure why I didn't spot it first time around. ? ? ?
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Try donuts 🍩 burger at snakey snakey Auckland it's yummy 😋😊☺😄😀😁 anyway god bless you stay bless have fun Cheers 🍻😊😘
Mmmmmm donut 🍩 ok must try 🤤
I always go to Devonport but I haven’t been to Mt Victoria and North Head
Maybe your next trip? 😁👍
why was there a bunny running around hahaha
Hahaha well spotted 🍄🐇 Easter egg for Alice in Wonderland reference 😁
Your real estate prices are as high as the Lower Mainland in British Columbia! 😮
Yup 😥 sky high!
I saw your pop up. What is that creature
Haha it's the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland 😁🐰🐇⏱️
Lol, damn I lost the bet, can't wait to tell my friend when he wakes up that he was right , I thought it was a garden gnome lol
Hope all the likes here will help you guys get the only $2million home
Hahahaha thanks mate appreciate it 🤙
Devonport has always been expensive for housing. Shame the Auckland City Council now want to wreck the area by removing the heritage protection, and allow homes to be demolished and new 3 story houses to built.