Sunny Chinese Restaurant n Takeaways on Grey Street in Claudelands, Hamilton, does what the best neighbourhood takeaway shops do: proper Chinese cooking and classic fish-and-chips counter favourites out of the same kitchen. The menu stretches from whole roast duck and soy sauce chicken through to hot dogs, hoki fish and vege spring rolls, with bilingual online ordering in English and Chinese and secure payment for pickup.
The heart of the menu is the Chinese roast section. Roast duck comes whole, half or quarter; roast pork is sold by the kilo or half kilo; soy sauce chicken and roast chicken are likewise available whole, halved or quartered. Combination platters of two or three roasts feed a table, and every roast can be served over vegetables or steamed rice as a complete meal. Around the roasts sit noodle soups, mapo-style tofu and satay rice plates, wok stir-fries, sweet and sour classics, fried rice and noodles, and even Indonesian-style nasi goreng and bami goreng.
Ordering is built around convenience: a bilingual online menu, secure payments by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal, and chosen pickup times between 11:30am and 9pm, six days a week (closed Tuesdays). The top sellers list — where chips and hot dogs sit comfortably beside sweet and sour pork and roast pork on rice — says a lot about the shop's range, from a quick snack on the walk home to a full Chinese dinner for the family table.
Sunny Chinese Restaurant n Takeaways occupies a stretch of Grey Street in Claudelands, Hamilton, and the name gives away the deal: one kitchen, two appetites. On the Chinese side of the menu there are whole roast ducks, soy sauce chickens and trays of crackling roast pork; on the takeaway side there are chips, hot dogs, hoki fish and spring rolls. It is a combination Kiwis know well, and Sunny works both sides of it seriously, with bilingual online ordering in English and Chinese, secure payment and a straightforward pickup counter.
Claudelands locals know it as the place where a quick takeaway run can just as easily turn into a full Chinese dinner. The bilingual online menu makes ordering simple for a wide cross-section of Hamilton, and the top sellers list — where chips and hot dogs sit comfortably beside sweet and sour pork and roast pork on rice — says a lot about the shop's broad appeal.
The headline act is the Chinese roasts. Whole roast duck can be bought by the bird, or as a half or a quarter; roast pork comes by the kilo or the half kilo; and soy sauce chicken and roast chicken are each available whole, halved or quartered. For anyone who cannot choose, combination platters gather two or three roasts on one board, and the same roasts can be laid over vegetables or over steamed rice as a complete meal. Roast Pork On Rice earns its place among the shop's top sellers, alongside Roast Duck On Rice, BBQ Pork On Rice and a quarter-duck-on-rice option for bigger appetites.
Beyond the roasts, the menu runs deep. Noodle soups pair wontons or roast meats with broth and noodles, including a tom yum-leaning roast pork version and a black bean pork rib bowl. The special rice and noodle dishes read like a greatest-hits list: black bean pork ribs, BBQ pork with scrambled egg, spicy mapo-style tofu, pork curry, pork satay, spring onion and ginger beef, steak with egg and tomato, and twice-cooked pork, with curiosities like duck tongues and duck feet and wings for the adventurous. There are even Indonesian-style nasi goreng and bami goreng. A separate stir-fry section covers dry-fried green beans, secret tofu, Singapore fried noodles and Yangzhou fried rice, while the sweet and sour classics — pork, shrimp and chicken, plus lemon chicken, lemon fish and honey chicken — round things out. Jasmine rice is on hand as a base for any of it, and an add-ons list lets you bolt extra chicken, beef, char siu or cashews onto most dishes.
Then there is the other half of the name. The fish and chips lineup includes hoki fish, chips (themselves a top seller), vege spring rolls, hot dogs, sausages, chicken nuggets, potato fritters, crabsticks and fried wontons in six- or twelve-piece packs. A dedicated dipping sauce list — duck jus, chilli oil, plum, hoisin, sweet chilli, mayonnaise, fresh chilli soy and ginger-spring onion oil — means everything arrives the way you like it.
Sunny runs a preorder system through its own site, in English and Chinese, with secure online payments via Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. Orders are pickup only — you choose a pickup time at checkout and collect from the Grey Street counter. Pickup hours run 11:30am to 9pm every day except Tuesday, when the shop is closed. The listing carries a 4.2 rating, and its most-ordered items tell you exactly what the regulars reach for: chips, sweet and sour pork, hot dogs, vege spring rolls, hoki fish and roast pork on rice.
Whether it is a quarter roast duck with rice for the family table or a paper-wrapped scoop of chips and a spring roll for the walk home, Sunny covers both ends of the appetite spectrum — and six days a week, it is only a preorder away.