Red Sun Takeaways is an Ellerslie takeaway shop on Harris Rd serving a wide span of Chinese and European favourites, from fried rice and chow mein to fish and chips and burgers. The kitchen covers the classics of both worlds: wonton soup, egg foo yong, sweet and sour dishes and curries on rice sit alongside battered hoki, potato fritters, hot dogs and toasted sandwiches, making it an easy stop when the household can't agree on dinner.
The menu runs deep. There are combination packs that feed a family, a full fried rice list from egg to seafood, chef's specials featuring Shanghai noodles, hor fun and beef on rice, plus homemade spring rolls, curry rolls and fritters. Chinese mains come in generous sizes suited to sharing, while the European side handles the quick single-serve orders.
Orders can be placed online for pickup or delivery, with secure payments by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. Delivery fees apply across a long list of Auckland suburbs, from Ellerslie and Remuera out to Howick, Botany Downs and Pakuranga. The shop holds a 4.3 rating with customers on its ordering site and opens from late morning to evening, seven days a week.
On Harris Road in Ellerslie, Red Sun Takeaways runs one of those menus that makes everyone at the table happy — a full line-up of Chinese takeaway classics sitting side by side with burgers, toasted sandwiches and old-school deep-fried favourites. It's Chinese and European food under one roof, available for both pickup and delivery, with secure online ordering through the store's website.
The numbers tell part of the story: the listing carries a 4.3 rating, and the top sellers read like a greatest-hits album of takeaway food — chips, potato fritters, Hoki, hot dogs, pork sweet & sour and chicken fried rice. That mix of Chinese mains and fried favourites is exactly what Red Sun is known for.
The Chinese side of the menu is genuinely deep. Fried rice alone comes in a dozen variations, from egg and vegetable through chicken, steak, pork, BBQ pork and prawn up to Yang Chow, Special and Seafood fried rice. There are soups (wonton, chicken sweet corn, wonton & noodle), a full egg foo yong section, curries on rice including satay chicken, satay beef, nasi goreng and bami goreng, plus chow mein or chop suey in vegetable through to seafood versions. The sweet & sour section covers pork, fish, chicken, wonton, lemon chicken and lemon fish.
The Chef's Specials branch out into noodles and rice plates: chicken Shanghai noodles, Singapore fried noodles, chicken and beef hor fun, beef black bean sauce, ginger beef, Mongolian beef, black pepper beef, garlic prawn on rice, and spicy crispy chicken or pork.
Then there's the European half. Fish & chips standards include battered Hoki and snapper, potato fritters, crab sticks, sausages, fish cakes, mussels, oysters, scallops, squid rings, paua fritters and kumara chips, with homemade spring rolls, curry rolls and corn fritters made in-house. Burgers run from a simple hamburger through cheese, Hawaiian, bacon, fish, chicken and steak versions to the stacked World Burger. A long toasted-sandwich list covers everything from cheese and pineapple to bacon & egg and steak & egg.
Red Sun's combo packs are a signature in their own right, and they split neatly into two families. The fish-and-chips packs range from Pack A (2 fish, $3 chips, 2 potato fritters) and Pack E (a hamburger or fish with chips) up to Pack G — 5 fish, $10 of chips, 5 potato fritters and 5 sausages or crab sticks — and Pack D with fish, sausages and squid rings. The Chinese banquet packs pair fried rice and chow mein: Pack 1 combines egg fried rice with chicken chowmein, Pack 2 adds 4 wontons, Pack 3 brings in BBQ pork foo yong, and Pack 4 goes all in with combination fried rice, chicken chowmein, sweet & sour pork and 12 wontons. There's even Pack F for roast chicken lovers — quarter chicken and chips or six chicken wings and chips.
Ordering is done online through the site, with delivery or pickup options. Delivery fees apply, and there's a minimum order value of $40 for delivery. The delivery map is enormous, covering the Auckland CBD and inner suburbs like Ponsonby, Grey Lynn, Parnell, Newmarket, Epsom, Remuera and Mount Eden, stretching east to Ellerslie, Greenlane, Mount Wellington, Onehunga and Otahuhu, and out through Pakuranga, Howick, Half Moon Bay, Highland Park, Botany Downs, East Tamaki, Flat Bush and Dannemora — even across to Devonport, Narrow Neck and Stanley Point on the shore. Southern suburbs including Mangere, Papatoetoe, Otara, Wiri and Favona are covered too.
Hours run seven days a week: Monday 12pm–8pm, Tuesday 11am–9pm, Wednesday to Friday 11am–8:30pm, Saturday 12pm–8:30pm and Sunday 12pm–8pm.
This is takeaway done properly — no-nonsense, generous, and priced so a family can order without a second thought. Grab a fish pack for Friday night, a banquet pack for a group, or mix a hamburger and wontons with fried rice when nobody can agree. Payment is by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal, and the menu flags gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free items where they apply.
If you're in Ellerslie or anywhere across the wide delivery zone, Red Sun Takeaways is the rare spot that can handle the fish-and-chips crowd and the fried-rice crowd in a single order.