Takeout Kids returns for season two. Meet Kyla, of Whakatāne’s City Nails.

Building on the success of its 2022 launch, Takeout Kids returns for a second season, following five tamariki and rangatahi growing up in the small businesses owned by their immigrant families. The latest season features young people from across Aotearoa as they sling doughnuts at an Auckland night market, scan the walls of polish lining their mum’s nail salon, serve hungry customers, and more.

The final young person we meet in the series is Kyla who, alongside her sister Kylee, is growing up in her parents’ nail salon in Whakatāne. Inside the salon, Kyla goes over her Vietnamese homework and pepeha, before having her nails painted for the low, low price of 100 kisses on the cheek.

At school, kissing of another kind is on the minds of Kyla and her friends: they talk boys and crushes, and Kyla deals with the confusion of the playground rumour mill claiming a boy she’s never met fancies her. When she gets home, she unwinds with the nightly beauty routine she shares with her sister, trying on Mum’s cosmetics in the mirror and substituting cucumber slices with squash slices for her own beauty services for her parents.

Takeout Kids is made with the support of NZ On Air.