New Zealand food delivered to Sydney
New Zealand food, chocolate and lollies delivered to Sydney from Auckland by DHL Express, usually 1 to 3 business days. Prices in Australian dollars.
- Carrier
- DHL Express
- Typical transit
- 1 to 3 business days
- You shop in
- AUD
- Dispatched
- 1–2 business days
At the last census, 85,493 people living in Greater Sydney were born in New Zealand. It is the second largest Kiwi population in the country. Unlike Brisbane it is spread thin, and no single suburb holds it. That is part of why there is no obvious shop to walk into.
The practical answer is that the shop is in Auckland. An order packed on Monday is usually on a Sydney doorstep by Wednesday or Thursday.
Sydney sits in the middle
One question matters more than the rest for food: what the weather does to a parcel in its last few hours. On that, Sydney is the middle case of the six.
It is not Melbourne, where a chocolate block is a safe order for most of the year. It is not Brisbane, where we would rather you waited until winter. April through October, chocolate is comfortable. Through a humid January it is a gamble, and humidity is the part people underestimate: a block does not have to melt to come out of its wrapper looking wrong.
If you are ordering in high summer, the mini slabs are the sensible hedge, because each one is wrapped on its own.
The range is the point
Because the Kiwi population here is dispersed rather than clustered, most people searching are not looking for a specific shop. They are looking for a specific thing: the biscuit, the spread, the bar that is not on a Woolworths shelf.
That is what an Auckland warehouse is good for. The biscuit aisle here is the New Zealand one, not the handful of lines an importer chose.
Why these four
Our Sydney order history is too thin to draw a pattern from, so we have not pretended otherwise. The list is built for a climate that swings: two things that hold up in any month, and two worth putting in a winter box. If you want one safe bet, make it the Mallowpuffs.
The Perky Nana causes the most confused conversations in Sydney. The name means nothing to an Australian, and the flavour combination sounds wrong until you have had one. It is a banana chew in chocolate. It is not sold here, and it is the thing people most often add to a first order once they realise they can.
The Kiwi community here
85,493
people living in Greater Sydney were born in New Zealand. Second largest New Zealand-born population of any Australian city, behind Brisbane.
Source: ABS 2021 CensusChocolate and the weather
Humid summers, mild everything else.
Sydney sits between Melbourne and Brisbane on this, which is exactly how it feels. Chocolate is a comfortable order from April to October. Through a humid January it is a gamble, and humidity spoils a block's surface even when it never fully melts.
Read our heat-sensitive products policyGood picks for Sydney
Chosen for this city and this climate, not a bestseller list.
Marshmallow on a biscuit base. Sturdy, and a Sydney winter delivery is no trouble at all.
Banana and chocolate. The bar people ask after once they realise it is not sold here.
The New Zealand jar. Nothing about a Sydney summer bothers it.
Individually wrapped, so a warm day does damage to one rather than to a whole block.
Ordered most often, everywhere
Not enough orders have gone to Sydney yet to show what is popular there specifically, so this is what the whole shop orders most.
One rate covers the first 2 kg
Your DHL Express rate to Sydney follows the weight of the box, not the distance. A half full box costs the same to send as a full one, so the trick is filling it well. Above 2 kg a step rate applies per 0.5 kg, and the exact figure shows at checkout once you enter your address.
Import charges are set by the Australian government, never added by us. If anything is owed, DHL contacts you before delivery. The current rules are on the Australian Border Force site.
Delivery to Sydney
How long does delivery to Sydney take ＋
Typically 1 to 3 business days with DHL Express once your order leaves Auckland, with dispatch inside 1 to 2 business days of payment. These are carrier estimates rather than guarantees.
Do you have a shop in Sydney ＋
No. We are an online store in Auckland, and everything is packed and posted from there. It means the range is a full New Zealand supermarket range rather than whatever an importer could fit in a shipping container.
Can I send chocolate to Sydney in summer ＋
It is a risk rather than a certainty. Parcels travel unrefrigerated and we cannot control temperatures after dispatch, so chocolate may arrive soft, and melted chocolate is not refunded. Humidity is the part people forget. April to October is the comfortable window.
What currency will I be charged in ＋
Australian dollars. The site detects that you are in Australia and switches the catalogue to AUD.
Other Australian cities
- Adelaide Hot dry summers, cool nights, and a long comfortable shoulder.
- Brisbane The hardest climate on this list for anything with chocolate in it.
- Gold Coast The warmest and most humid destination on this list.
- Melbourne The best chocolate window of any Australian city.
- Perth Dry heat, which is kinder than Brisbane's but still heat.
Send a taste of home to Sydney
Packed in Auckland, on its way in 1–2 business days, with DHL Express tracking the whole way.