{"id":263231,"date":"2026-02-02T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263231\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:12:09","slug":"long-running-wellington-fish-and-chip-shop-rice-bowl-burger-bar-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263231\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-running Wellington fish-and-chip shop Rice Bowl Burger Bar to close"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA notice posted to Facebook from Rice Bowl Burger Bar announcing its closure.
\nPhoto: Rice Bowl Burger Bar \/ supplied\n<\/p>\n

A long-running hole-in-the-wall fish-and-chip shop in Wellington is closing its roller door for the last time at the end of this month.<\/p>\n

Rice Bowl Burger Bar’s current owner, Wawa Shen, said the small kitchen and serving counter – which opens out onto Riddiford Street near Wellington Hospital – had run since the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

She said her family had owned the business since 2009, but now the building’s landlord planned to redevelop the site.<\/p>\n

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\nA notice posted to Facebook from Rice Bowl Burger Bar announcing its closure.
\nPhoto: Rice Bowl Burger Bar \/ supplied\n<\/p>\n

On a notice posted to the shop’s Facebook page<\/a>, they thanked their customers for their “continued love and support over the last 17 years” .<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A notice posted to Facebook from Rice Bowl Burger Bar announcing its closure. Photo: Rice Bowl Burger Bar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48,138,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-263231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}