Super Star Chinese Takeaway

Super Star is one of the smaller, quietly-trading Chinese takeaways in Castle Douglas, holding a single unit on Carlingwark Street just off the south end of King Street near the loch-side car parks and the Buchanan Centre. The shop is takeaway-only and trades on a fairly tight late-afternoon to early-evening pattern rather than the late-night format the kebab shops in town use — useful to know if you are planning to collect rather than walking down on the off chance. The menu is the standard British-Cantonese list: chow mein, curries, sweet-and-sour, salt-and-pepper, set meals for two, fried-rice and noodle sections. Reviewers across Restaurant Guru, Yelp and bigreddirectory most often pick out the chicken fried rice, the curry sauce and the spring rolls as the consistent orders, with portion sizes flagged as generous for the price and the kitchen described as quick at handing out collections. Carlingwark Street is the connector that joins the central King Street grid to the loch-side recreation ground that Sir William Douglas's 1790s planned-town layout pivots around, which makes Super Star a practical stop for anyone walking back from the loch or the car park rather than a destination shop in its own right.