Country Fried Chicken is a takeaway shop on Oates Street in Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt, and it holds a 4.5 rating on Google. A good fried chicken takeaway is really about timing. Fried chicken is at its best straight from the fryer, so regulars learn the rhythm of the counter, ringing orders ahead and timing a visit to the dinner rush, when batches turn over quickly and nothing lingers under the heat lamps. A crisp, well-seasoned coating and chips cooked to order, not reheated, are the honest signs of a shop worth returning to. In the suburbs, the Friday-night queue outside the local chicken shop is often the truest review a takeaway can earn. With its strong Google rating, Country Fried Chicken looks to have earned exactly that kind of following in Stokes Valley.