Kippers Takeaways is a takeaway shop on the Hibiscus Coast Highway in Orewa, north of Auckland, rated 4.4 on Google, with online ordering available for pickup ahead of time. A good coastal takeaway is judged by two things: fish cooked to order and chips that never sit around. Batter should shatter and the fish inside steam, and a short wait usually means each order has been fried fresh rather than left under a warmer. Locals tend to order ahead before the Friday rush and in summer, when queues can stretch out the door, and to ask what fish is on that day before choosing batter or crumb. Eaten straight from the paper with the sea close by, it is the simple meal good takeaways are built on. In a beach town like Orewa, Kippers is well placed for exactly that: a hot, paper-wrapped dinner on the way home from the sand.