REVIEW LOCATION:
New Plymouth
New Plymouth
Price: $7.60
Amount of chips: 5/5
Chip quality: 5/5
Size of fish: 4/5
Fish quality: 3/5
Total Score: 17
Well drained of oil?: Very!
Satisfied?: More than enough food.
Comments: Yup. I'm still in New Plymouth so I peeped around at which shops had good ratings on Google maps. A shop called Snappers came up and was rated relatively high considering they had over 100 Google reviews which I'd say is a lot for small town New Zealand.
The layout is quite comical, it feels like everyone is hanging out in a shed with a small gas heater in the corner. With the doors and windows shut there still seemed to be a strong breeze whipping through the room which I couldn't figure out. The interior decorating is very shabby chic/mumcore with large welded metal fish sculptures against canary yellow walls and fake flowers placed all over the room. There are 2 different sets of home stereo speakers, one pair is mounted up high but not working so I'm guessing they just gave up on them when they stopped working.
This shop was constantly busy the entire time with a lot of young but very hard working teenagers working out the back and keeping on top of the relentless orders coming through. The menu board was classy black vinyl on white but was given the full kiwi design treatment by covering unavailable menu items with paper and white masking tape and headed with the company logo which has a picture of a big goofy cartoon fish.
The chips are old faithful Mr Chips chips and were fried very well. I had zero complaints with this batch, the fry time and the bang and hang were perfectly done to produce some golden fries that were a pleasure to eat. It got me thinking, the past two experiences have both been the same straight cut Mr Chips brand which just goes to show the importance of potato preparation before frying is just as important as the frying itself.
The fish of the day was lemon fish. Now and again you can run into a filet of lemon fish that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth('scuse the pun) but I'm pleased to announce today's was a delicious bit. There were a few things that let it down though. At first sight it seemed like I was in for a big fish day but it turned out it was sliced thin and the batter was applied on the heavy side. This was made worse by what I guess was a rushed fry time as the batter was still a bit under cooked and doughy which seems to be a common mistake of the busier shops.
It wasn't exactly offensive but I won't be recommending it. Well... no wait - if you're at the nearby beach and got a hankering for only chip butties, definitely hit them up! I dunno, it's kinda funny that a store named after a type of fish was let down by their fish.
Well drained of oil?: Very!
Satisfied?: More than enough food.
Comments: Yup. I'm still in New Plymouth so I peeped around at which shops had good ratings on Google maps. A shop called Snappers came up and was rated relatively high considering they had over 100 Google reviews which I'd say is a lot for small town New Zealand.
The layout is quite comical, it feels like everyone is hanging out in a shed with a small gas heater in the corner. With the doors and windows shut there still seemed to be a strong breeze whipping through the room which I couldn't figure out. The interior decorating is very shabby chic/mumcore with large welded metal fish sculptures against canary yellow walls and fake flowers placed all over the room. There are 2 different sets of home stereo speakers, one pair is mounted up high but not working so I'm guessing they just gave up on them when they stopped working.
This shop was constantly busy the entire time with a lot of young but very hard working teenagers working out the back and keeping on top of the relentless orders coming through. The menu board was classy black vinyl on white but was given the full kiwi design treatment by covering unavailable menu items with paper and white masking tape and headed with the company logo which has a picture of a big goofy cartoon fish.
The chips are old faithful Mr Chips chips and were fried very well. I had zero complaints with this batch, the fry time and the bang and hang were perfectly done to produce some golden fries that were a pleasure to eat. It got me thinking, the past two experiences have both been the same straight cut Mr Chips brand which just goes to show the importance of potato preparation before frying is just as important as the frying itself.
The fish of the day was lemon fish. Now and again you can run into a filet of lemon fish that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth('scuse the pun) but I'm pleased to announce today's was a delicious bit. There were a few things that let it down though. At first sight it seemed like I was in for a big fish day but it turned out it was sliced thin and the batter was applied on the heavy side. This was made worse by what I guess was a rushed fry time as the batter was still a bit under cooked and doughy which seems to be a common mistake of the busier shops.
It wasn't exactly offensive but I won't be recommending it. Well... no wait - if you're at the nearby beach and got a hankering for only chip butties, definitely hit them up! I dunno, it's kinda funny that a store named after a type of fish was let down by their fish.
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