They will be around for a while. If there is one thing Vietnamese parents are good at its guilting their kids into doing things they don’t want to do.
The Pig and Whistle in Olinda. If you want some proper English style fish and chips, go there. Was incredible. A bit of the pricey side but you definitely get what you pay for.
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I remember travelling in UK several decades ago and many fish and chip places sold incredibly oily/slimy/limp chips. Not crisp in the slightest.
The cod and chips at the Magpie cafe in Whitby (as I’ve posted before) was more sit-down than wrap-it-in-newspaper, but was up there with the best F&C ever, for me.
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I remember having good F&C on the way back to Victoria (the London suburb) after watching Chelsea Spurs at Stamford Bridge. Chris Hoddle and Ossie Ardiles starred and Spurs won 3-1.
Can’t remember exactly where the shop was, but probably near the station.
It was only 45 years ago.
I sampled Fish and Chips, as well as Indian cuisine, on several occasions when I was in the UK 30-ish years ago.
Have to say, I thought both were vastly inferior to what we can get here. The F&C were generally oily and soggy, the Indian generally overdid the coconut milk/cream resulting in dishes on the sweet side (after all, Butter Chicken is completely a British creation…)
Maybe I just sampled bad ones (although the Indian restaurant we were taken to Bristol was supposedly “the best one in town”), and of course there are rubbish ones here too… just my own experiences…
When I lived briefly in UK ‘Balti’ curries seemed to be the predominant one. Honestly couldn’t tell you what distinguished them from other curries. They seemed pretty mild to me. The poms also seemed to think they had perfected curries!
I guess what we call a souvlaki would make a Greek person go WtF…
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Decided on an early evening takeaway whilst over in Vic heading up to Sydney back in April. Merimbula Fish and Chips was the lucky choice on a warmish late week evening. And su-bloody-perb it was. Great fish and scallops in excellent batter with very good chips. Can of full strength Coke to wash it down.
Highly recommended. Restored my faith in life after our Anzac Day last quarter trauma.
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Fish and Chips are great here especially in a good village pub. What my wife and I really miss is a good potato cake (or potato scallop) for the unwashed north of the border.
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Montis Ashore in Gosford still by far the best F&C’s ive ever had.
The Lobster Shack at Bicheno.
Beautiful crispy batter.
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Enjoying some lovely battered flat head and chips today for lunch(and a bit of greek salad on the side)
What’s everyone’s favourite fish when getting takeaway?
Humble Hoki
Basa
Snapper
Whiting
Flathead
Salmon
Barramundi
Something else? (A few people get Flake but Ive hardly seen it of late)
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I think im firmly a flathead kinda guy if its there and looks fresh.
Or if the house fish is Hoki. I think that kinda goes better than the other cheap stuff.
I’m a keen fisho and I dont think you can go wrong with anything fresh. My personal preference of those species, the ones that I can catch locally is Flathead and King George Whiting. Both have beautiful firm white flesh. I had a feed of Flatties earlier this week. Sensational.
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Blue, and I’ll raise you, Grenadier
Same same as Hoki, Hake just different names for Blue Grenadier
Think locally we call it Blue Grenadier but in NZ they call it Hoki. Could be wrong,
I didn’t know that. Thank you
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I’m a whiting guy myself. Bit more sustainable, being closer to the bottom of the food chain. And of course it doesn’t hurt that my local chippie does it absolutely beautifully…
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Basa is cheap and mild tasting, but if it’s from Vietnam, it’s likely from the Mekong river, and the quality of the water they’re raised in isn’t what you’d call pristine, so I’d be giving that a miss, unless you know a lot more about where and how it was raised, and are happy with that. But, it is cheap…
For local fish and chips, it’s hard to beat King George whiting for taste.
In Hobart, I’m quite partial to Blue Eye Trevalla, when it’s available.
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Stop trying to make me fatter, ya Friday arvo bastards.
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