South City Takeaways is a takeaway shop at 23 Princes Street in Otahuhu, Auckland, part of one of the city's most food-rich southern suburbs, and it holds a 4.3 Google rating.
Good takeaways live or die by the fryer: food cooked to order rather than sitting in the warmer, and oil changed often enough that chips come out golden and crisp instead of greasy. It is always worth asking for chips cooked fresh — a few extra minutes changes them completely — and phoning the order ahead at teatime or on Friday nights, when the queue builds and the fryers are working flat out. The other thing regulars know is that most good shops do a handful of things very well rather than everything passably, so it pays to ask what the place is known for and order that, instead of working down the whole menu on a first visit.
For anyone in Otahuhu after a no-fuss feed, South City Takeaways sits right on Princes Street with that solid local rating behind it.