Sun Chop Suey Bar

The Sun Chop Suey Bar — listed in some directories as "The Sun Chinese Takeaway" — is the long-running Chinese on the Bexley Road side of Erith, in the residential parade between central Erith and Northumberland Heath. It's a women-owned phone-and-collect operator with a five-star FSA hygiene rating ("VERY GOOD") on its most recent inspection, and that combination of long tenure and a clean kitchen has kept it a default neighbourhood order on this side of the postcode.

The menu is the British-Cantonese standard the customers in this part of Erith ask for: special fried rice, salt-and-pepper prawns and chicken wings, sweet-and-sour pork or chicken in batter, chow mein, curry sauces, foo yung. Set meals for two and three carry the family side of the trade, and the kitchen does the salt-and-pepper variants and the lemon chicken that pull most of the repeat orders.

The Bexley Road parade where the shop sits is structurally a quieter strip than central Erith — terraced housing back-to-back with a short run of working shops — and the takeaway runs on phone orders and walk-up trade from the immediate streets rather than passing pavement. Reviews are typical of a back-street Erith Chinese: consistent and well-regarded by regulars rather than spectacular. For households on the southern Bexley Road end of the postcode, it is the closest Chinese option.