Wongs Kitchen is a Frankton takeaway on Massey Street in Hamilton, serving a full fish and chips menu alongside a wide-ranging Chinese takeaway menu. The fryers handle battered hoki, tarakihi and gurnard, chips, kumara chips, hot dogs, fritters and spring rolls, while the kitchen turns out egg fu young, fried rice, curry on rice, chow mein and chop suey, sweet and sour classics and a long list of wok-tossed noodle dishes.
The shop is best known for its chicken nibbles, sold with chips in packs from five pieces right up to one hundred — the forty-piece special pack adds a 1.5-litre Pepsi to the box. Burgers (from a plain hamburger to the Angus beef Ninja Burger), sharing snack packs like corn nuggets and squid rings, dumplings, soups and toasted sandwiches round out the board, and Chinese Family Specials bundle several dishes into one easy order.
Ordering is available online, with pickup and no-contact delivery on offer. Wongs Kitchen opens from 11:00 am to 9:40 pm Tuesday to Sunday, and from 4:00 pm on Mondays.
On Massey Street in Frankton, Hamilton, Wongs Kitchen runs two beloved Kiwi takeaway traditions side by side. It is, at once, a proper fish and chip shop and a full Chinese takeaway: the fryers handle fried fish, chips and the shop's famous chicken nibbles, while the kitchen turns out fried rice, chow mein, egg fu young, curries and wok-tossed noodle dishes. For locals, that means one phone call or online order can settle both Friday-night dinner debates at the same time.
The fish and chips side of the board covers the classics. Hoki, tarakihi and gurnard are fried to order, alongside crab sticks, mussels, scallops, oysters, potato fritters, hot dogs, pineapple fritters, big beef spring rolls and home-made curry rolls. Chips come by the scoop — plain, with gravy, as kumara chips, curly fries or seasoned wedges — and small touches like donuts and chocolate bars fried to order keep the display cabinet interesting.
Slide down the menu and you're into the Chinese half: egg fu young, fried rice and curry on rice in plain and combination versions, chow mein on fried egg noodles or chop suey on vermicelli, and sweet and sour pork, chicken or fish — plus a honey sauce chicken — served over noodles or fried rice. These are the dishes that anchor family dinners around Hamilton week after week.
Ask around Frankton what Wongs Kitchen is known for and the answer comes back fast: chicken nibbles. They are sold with chips in packs from five pieces all the way up to one hundred, and the forty-piece Special Chicken Nibbles Pack adds a 1.5-litre bottle of Pepsi to the pile. Whether it's a solo snack, a family tea or a club event, there is a pack sized for it.
Chicken fans are otherwise well catered for — fried chicken pieces by the pack, tenders and strips, a snack box of thigh and drumstick, and fillet snacks that come with salad and a can of soft drink.
The Special Noodle Dishes list is where the kitchen shows its range. Teriyaki chicken comes stir fried in the house teriyaki sauce with udon noodles; Mongolian beef rides with thick rice noodles; satay chicken, sambal chicken, Thai curry, garlic prawn, Singapore fried noodles and fried kuai teow round out a lineup that reads more like a dedicated Asian restaurant than a suburban chip shop. Everything is cooked to order with fresh vegetables.
For bigger nights there are the Chinese Family Specials — three-dish bundles like sweet and sour pork with combination fried rice and chicken chow mein — and a smaller Chinese Combo pairing BBQ pork egg fu young with chicken fried rice. Extras like cashew nuts and gravy by the size make it easy to round things out.
The burger list stretches well past the basics. Alongside hamburger, cheese, egg, steak, chicken, fish and Hawaiian burgers sit house builds like the Ninja Burger — a 180-gram Angus beef pattie with jalapeño chutney, cheese, egg, mayo and salad — the hash-brown-stacked Spud Burger, and the Dori-King with grilled teriyaki chicken and pineapple. Toasted sandwiches, pork and cabbage dumplings, wonton and chicken corn soup, and a char siu pork meal on steamed rice fill in the edges.
Snack packs are built for sharing: corn nuggets, onion rings, squid rings, curly fries, beer batter fries and prawn twisters, each arriving with its own dipping sauce. Soft drinks come in cans or 1.5-litre bottles, with Bundaberg ginger beer for something different.
Orders can be placed online through the Wongs Kitchen website, with pickup and no-contact delivery available, and the phone still rings through to the shop for anyone who prefers to talk to a person. Doors open from 11:00 am to 9:40 pm Tuesday through Sunday, with a later 4:00 pm start on Mondays.
Whether it's a scoop of chips and a piece of fish, a hundred nibbles for the work do, or sweet and sour pork over fried rice, the idea stays the same: honest takeaway food cooked to order, from a Massey Street shop that knows exactly what its neighbourhood fancies.