Sun-Sun Takeaways on King Edward Street is a South Dunedin takeaway that combines a classic fish and chip counter, a burger grill and a full Chinese kitchen under one roof. Open every day of the week from 11:30am to 10:15pm, it covers everything from a scoop of minimum chips or a battered blue cod to combination fried rice, chow mein and a hot noodle soup.
The deep-fried side of the menu reads like a proper Kiwi takeaway: hot dogs, battered sausages, spring rolls, curry rice rolls, patties, jam donuts, scallops, Pacific oysters, squid rings and even a deep-fried Moro bar for something sweet. Alongside it, the Chinese menu runs deep — fried rice in more than a dozen forms, chow mein, sweet and sour dishes, stir-fried vegetables, fried noodles, foo young egg and chef-recommended rice meals such as honey BBQ pork, Mongolian beef and crispy skin chicken. Khmer satay meals and fresh, handmade pork and cheese steamed buns give the line-up its own character.
Ordering is simple: the full menu is online for pickup or delivery, with secure payment by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. Delivery fees apply, and the delivery map stretches across a long list of Dunedin suburbs, so the food travels well beyond South Dunedin.
On King Edward Street in South Dunedin, Sun-Sun Takeaways runs the kind of menu that quietly solves everyone's dinner problem at once. It is a fish and chip shop, a burger bar and a Chinese takeaway rolled into one storefront, open every day of the week from 11:30 in the morning until 10:15 at night. Locals after a quick scoop of chips and families ordering a spread of fried rice and chow mein for tea all come through the same online menu and the same counter.
The deep-fried board is where Sun-Sun's top sellers live. Minimum chips — a modest scoop of hot, freshly fried chips — leads the list, followed closely by chicken nuggets, battered fish, hot dogs and battered onion sausages. Garlic chips offer a seasoned twist, while the wider fried menu runs from battered sole fillet and blue cod to spring rolls, curry rice rolls, steak and onion rolls, corn and chop suey patties, jam and chocolate donuts, and even a deep-fried Moro bar for dessert. Seafood fans can add scallops, Pacific oysters, mussels, squid rings, wontons and seafood sticks, and the chicken options scale from single nuggets up to a whole half chicken.
The burger menu covers all the takeaway staples — plain, cheese, egg, pineapple, mushroom, fish, bacon and steak burgers — plus chicken and beef satay burgers and the fully loaded Special Burger. Toasted sandwiches round things out with combinations like ham and cheese, bacon and egg, and steak and egg.
Behind the fryer sits a genuinely broad Chinese menu. Fried rice comes in more than a dozen forms, from pork, beef and chicken to roasted pork, shrimp, cashew nut versions and nasi goreng. Chow mein follows the same pattern, ending in a seafood chow mein built with shrimp, mussel and crabstick. There are sweet and sour dishes with pork, fish, chicken or wontons; stir-fried vegetable dishes with beef, chicken, roast pork or blackbean sauce; and fried noodles ranging from Singapore-style to curry and spicy chicken.
Noodle soups make the cooler Dunedin evenings easier, with chicken corn soup at the light end and roast pork, prawn, wonton and combination soups further up the list. Egg foo young comes with roast pork, beef, chicken, shrimp or a combination, and the chef's recommended rice meals — honey BBQ pork, ginger beef, Mongolian beef, garlic and ginger chicken, crispy skin chicken among them — make quick single-plate dinners.
One section gives the menu its own signature: the Khmer satay meals. Chicken and beef satays in supreme and combination forms, plus a sweet and sour chicken satay, bring Cambodian flavours to King Edward Street. The kitchen also steams its own Chinese buns, and the pork and cheese steamed buns are advertised fresh, handmade and tasty.
Everything above can be ordered online for pickup or delivery, with orders able to be pre-scheduled ahead of time. Payment is handled securely through the site with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. Delivery fees apply, and the delivery map stretches across most of Dunedin — from South Dunedin, Saint Clair and Caversham to Mornington, Musselburgh, Corstorphine, Green Island and North East Valley, among dozens of other suburbs.
It adds up to a handy setup: one neighbourhood shop that can turn out a paper-wrapped fish and chips, a burger and toastie, or a full Chinese dinner with steamed buns on the side, seven days a week until well after dark. For households with split cravings, that flexibility is exactly the point.