Friday, January 28, 2011

In search of decent Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips are great, with one caveat - they must be made properly. Otherwise they are god-awful.

Over the last few months I've put up with a lot of the later - the problem is, the Seafood Bazaar in Rototuna was sold - to people who don't know how to prepare fish, nor chips!

I may have found a replacement - the Provincial Chip Co in the Cambridge Road shops in Hillcrest. (The premises used to contain Hillcrest Fish Supply, which wasn't bad either).

Sorry, no photos because the weather tonight is awful - a cyclone is rolling in - but the place is small and tidy, and very clean (easily the cleanest fish and chip shop I've EVER been in), and sells chips, a variety of fish, and a few gourmet-ish burgers and the like. I've only ever had the fish and chips here though.

My snapper was nicely crumbed, and the chips are real hunks of potato (none of this re-constituted rubbish), and everything was deep fried as you would expect, but most importantly, left to drip - you won't find grease on the paper or cardboard the chips came wrapped in.

Add some tomato sauce (or my preference, mayo), and you're set. If you're looking for a fish and chip shop in Hamilton, this place is worth the drive across town. 8/10.

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