{"id":17062,"date":"2026-03-31T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:14:07","slug":"clear-racism-muslim-run-auckland-pasta-restaurant-hits-back-at-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17062","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clear racism\u2019: Muslim-run Auckland pasta restaurant hits back at critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"free-body\">\n<div class=\"font-stuff-sans text-2 leading-4 font-4\" data-testid=\"body-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"\">The Saudi Arabian owner of an East Auckland pasta restaurant says she won\u2019t be put off serving the food she loves after online claims the food was not \u201cauthentic\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"free-body\">\n<div class=\"font-stuff-sans text-2 leading-4 font-4\" data-testid=\"body-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"\">Eman Al Radwan migrated to New Zealand from Saudi Arabia with her family 10 years ago and said they chose Aotearoa because it was multicultural.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"free-body\">\n<div class=\"font-stuff-sans text-2 leading-4 font-4\" data-testid=\"body-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"\">She runs Pastarita in Howick with her husband, where they serve pasta dishes that are exclusively halal and don\u2019t offer alcohol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"free-body\">\n<div class=\"font-stuff-sans text-2 leading-4 font-4\" data-testid=\"body-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"\">She opened the restaurant to follow a passion for cooking pasta that she has had since childhood and told<em id=\"emphasis-e44dc8e981aa6d0a17a57e86b0da5454\">\u00a0<\/em>Stuff the response has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n<p>STUFF NZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi Arabian owner of an East Auckland pasta restaurant says she won\u2019t be put off serving the food she loves after online claims the food was not \u201cauthentic\u201d. Eman Al Radwan migrated to New Zealand from Saudi Arabia with her family 10 years ago and said they chose Aotearoa because it was multicultural. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17064,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions\/17064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}