Sun Do

Sun Do is a long-standing Chinese takeaway on Granby Street, a residential road just off the eastern edge of central Ilkeston. It is a small neighbourhood operation rather than a high-street fixture, with its own website and a steady delivery round into the surrounding streets; Tripadvisor reviewers regularly nominate it as the best Chinese in Ilkeston.

The menu runs the full Cantonese set with a Peking section: sweet-and-sour pork balls and chicken Hong Kong style, beef in black bean and oyster sauces, chicken with cashew nuts, king prawn dishes, foo yung, chow mein and chop suey across the usual meats. Crispy aromatic duck comes with pancakes, plum sauce and the proper cucumber-and-spring-onion garnish; the salt-and-pepper ribs and salt-and-chilli chicken wings are popular repeat orders. There is a kid-friendly section and enough vegetarian options to cover most household orders.

Sun Do trades into the late evening. Most orders come in by phone for collection or short-radius delivery, with the Sun Do website handling online ordering for delivery across Ilkeston, Cotmanhay, Larklands and Awsworth. The shop has a Very Good FSA hygiene rating and the price-to-portion ratio is one of the reasons reviewers keep coming back.