Imperial Takeaways is a Chinese and fish & chips takeaway in Trentham, Upper Hutt, offering pickup ordering through its own online menu with secure online payments. The menu spans classic Chinese takeaway staples — fried rice, noodles, sweet and sour and honey-sauce dishes, chow chop suey, soup and egg foo yung — alongside a full fish and chips shop lineup of fried fish, chips, burgers, dumplings and family combo packs.
The kitchen also promotes its handcrafted noodles, made daily with no preservatives or artificial colours. Orders are pickup only, placed and paid for online ahead of collection, with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal accepted.
Imperial Takeaways, on Fergusson Drive in Trentham, Upper Hutt, brings together two of New Zealand's most familiar takeaway traditions under one roof: a full Chinese menu and a classic fish and chips shop lineup. It's a combination that means a family can order a fish and chips fix alongside fried rice and noodles in the same pickup order.
The menu is built for pickup, ordered and paid for online ahead of collection, with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal accepted for secure online payment.
On the Chinese side, the menu runs deep. There's a full range of fried rice — chicken, egg, beef, BBQ pork, vegetable, a Malaysian-style Nasi Goreng, a Yang Chow Fried Rice with shrimp and BBQ pork, and a Seafood Fried Rice tossed with the kitchen's own XO sauce. Noodle dishes cover fried noodle options in chicken, beef and BBQ pork, plus a Seafood Buster of thick egg noodles with shrimp, mussel and fish balls, and options like Mee Goreng, Teriyaki Chicken Noodles and Satay Chicken Noodles.
A large block of the menu is devoted to sauce-based dishes served over steamed rice, fried rice or fried noodles — Sweet Sour Pork, Chicken, Prawn and Fish; Honey Chicken and Honey Prawn; Orange Beef; and Lemon Chicken and Lemon Fish, each available in multiple serving formats. There's also a dedicated Her-Fun (flat rice noodle) section, including a Singapore Rice Noodles with a mild curry flavour and a Chow Kwai Teow Her-Fun in a sweet and spicy soy sauce.
Rounding out the Chinese offerings are chow chop suey dishes served without rice or noodles (including a Kung Pao Chicken and beef in a hot chilli broth), egg foo young in several varieties, a soup selection spanning seafood, chicken corn, wonton and laksa styles, and crispy items finished with spicy salt, from tofu to squid.
On the fish and chips side, the menu covers the shop staples: fish, crumbed fish, chips (including garlic butter and loaded versions), sausages, spring rolls, fried wontons, onion rings, squid rings, potato and pineapple fritters, chicken nuggets, deep fried and steamed pork buns, donuts, mussels, roti bread and roti chenai, deep fried oysters and deep fried chicken wings. A short burger selection is also available, including a cheese burger with a double meat patty, chicken and fish burgers, and a king size option.
For bigger orders, Imperial Takeaways offers a set of family specials — combinations of fish, chips, sausages, crabstick, hot dogs and oysters scaled up for feeding a group — plus a "Special Choose" combo menu pairing Sweet Sour Pork with fried rice, noodles and egg foo young in different quantities.
The kitchen specifically calls out its handcrafted noodles as made fresh daily, with no preservatives and no artificial colours — a point of difference from noodles used elsewhere on the menu.
Orders are placed through Imperial Takeaways' own online ordering system for pickup, with a live countdown showing when the store opens if it's currently closed. Pickup hours run seven days a week, with slightly earlier starts on weekdays and weekends compared to Sunday and Monday/Tuesday, when the kitchen opens a little later in the afternoon.
With a menu this broad — Chinese mains, noodle soups, dumplings, and a full fish and chips counter side by side — Imperial Takeaways positions itself as a genuine one-stop takeaway for Trentham and the wider Upper Hutt area.