Gourmet BBQ Takeaways is a Chinese and Asian takeaway in the Clendon Shopping Centre on Roscommon Road, Clendon Park, Auckland. Open from 10am through until 10pm most nights (9:30pm on Sundays), it serves the local community with a menu that pairs a serious gourmet BBQ meat counter with all the Chinese takeaway standards.
The BBQ side of the menu is the drawcard: roast duck, crispy roast pork, honey BBQ pork and soya chicken, sold by the kilogram or served over steamed white rice — alone or as any two or three meats on the one plate, with spring onion and chilli sauces alongside. Around that sits a full range of fried rice, chow mein, noodles, egg foo yong, black bean, satay and curried vegetables, sweet & sour classics and soups, from wonton to duck noodle, plus dumplings and dim sum-style sides.
It is a kitchen set up for feeding people. Chicken nibbles come in packs from ten to a hundred pieces, Family Specials bundle generous trays of fried rice, chow mein and BBQ meats for groups, and catering orders are taken on request. Order online for pickup or delivery — fees apply across a wide stretch of southern Auckland — with secure online payments by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal.
On Roscommon Road in South Auckland, Gourmet BBQ Takeaways does exactly what its name promises. Tucked into the Clendon Shopping Centre at G02/459 Roscommon Road, this Chinese and Asian takeaway has built its menu around a proper BBQ meat counter — one where glossy roast duck, crackling pork and honey-glazed char siu lead the line — and backs it up with a full book of Chinese takeaway classics. Doors open from 10am and service runs through until 10pm most nights (9:30pm on Sundays), making it a reliable stop for everything from a quick lunch on rice to a full family spread.
The Gourmet BBQ section is the heart of the menu. Roast duck, crispy roast pork and honey BBQ pork are sold by the kilogram to take home, while soya chicken comes as a half or whole bird. For an easy meal, any of these meats can be served over steamed white rice — pick one, or combine two or three on the one plate. A half roast duck on rice, a half chicken on rice, or a whole duck to share are all on the board, and little tubs of spring onion sauce and chilli sauce are there to complete the picture.
Around the roast meats sits a comprehensive Chinese takeaway menu. Fried rice comes in nine versions, from simple egg fried rice through to prawn, combination and special fried rice. Chow mein, noodles, black bean, satay vegetables, curried vegetables and egg foo yong each follow the same pattern, offered with vegetables, chicken, beef, pork, BBQ pork, prawn or a combination — so once you settle on a favourite style, there is plenty of room to rotate through it. Sweet & sour pork, chicken, fish and wontons cover the golden-fried classics, while the soup pot turns out wonton soup, chicken sweet corn soup and noodle soups topped with roast pork, BBQ pork, soya chicken or duck. Deep-fried favourites — spring rolls, dumplings, wontons and chips — plus sides like pork buns, prawn hargow, prawn shaomai and lamb flap round things out.
This is a kitchen that clearly understands feeding families. Chicken nibbles are sold from ten pieces all the way up to one hundred, with chips alongside in the mid sizes. The Family Specials range runs from A through O: smaller bundles pair a fried rice with a chow mein or sweet & sour pork in a tray, mid-size combos add curries and egg fu yong, and the largest — like Special O — deliver a near-banquet of special fried rice, sweet & sour pork, bami goreng, combination egg fu yong, thirty chicken nibbles and chips, nasi goreng, wonton soup and two big bottles of Coke. There are also specials built purely from two or three BBQ meats in a tray, and Any Choices combos in small, medium and large for building your own mix. Catering orders are welcome on request — contact the store to arrange one.
Everything can be preordered online for pickup, with secure online payments by Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. Delivery is available for a fee across a wide patch of southern Auckland — Clendon Park, Manurewa, Wattle Downs, The Gardens, Goodwood Heights, Takanini, Conifer Grove, Papakura, Rosehill, Drury, Karaka, Flat Bush, Otara, Otahuhu, Papatoetoe, Mangere, Wiri, Manukau and surrounding suburbs. The menu also flags gluten free, vegetarian, sugar free and dairy free items, which helps when ordering for mixed diets.
Whether it is a container of crispy roast pork on rice grabbed on the way home, a hundred nibbles for a sports break-up, or a Family Special spread for a birthday table, Gourmet BBQ Takeaways keeps things simple: generous Chinese takeaway standards, a serious roast meat selection, and long hours seven days a week in the heart of Clendon Park.