Rumpty's

         REVIEW LOCATION:

New Plymouth

Store: Rumpty's, 6 Huatoki St.
Price: $6.80

Amount of chips:     5/5
Chip quality:        5/5
Size of fish:        3/5
Fish quality:        3/5

Total Score:         16

Well drained of oil?: They did good.
Satisfied?: I had a light lunch and I was still bloated after this meal.

Comments: 

At this point it just kind of feels like fish and chips shop owners in Taranaki are taking the piss when it comes to naming these places. Rumpty's!? What sort of oil are these people frying?

The wackiness didn't end there - the interior design was like an architecture school text book thrown into a blender. Roman columns, vegas motel colour scheme, a castle/pizza oven style archway and an angular brick counter that extruded into the middle of the room with bank teller perspex screens and a pink formica bench top. The register LCD price screen reads "NOSALE" throughout the entire transaction. The menu board was an explosive clusterfuck of varying A4 papers and bits of tape which would take the better half of a day to navigate through to gain a full understanding of what they had on offer.

Their chips were a hearty batch of the local crowd pleasing Mr Chip's brand and they were cooked beautifully. Nice crunch on the exterior through to a creamy inner. Seasoned perfectly and not trying to reinvent the wheel, just keeping them tried and true which I can respect.

The fish was on the slightly disappointing side. For a town with a port you can easily be lead to believe that you're in for good sized fresh fish wherever you go. Sadly this isn't the reality most of the time. This fish was pretty thinly sliced and there were a few undesirable flavours which had me curious how long it had taken to get from sea to plate. At the very least the batter was quite tasty and cooked quite skillfully which showed the cook obviously did the best with what he had to work with.

Over all, I think this fuzzy 80s acid trip of a fish and chip shop is the place to visit if you have a hankering for a chip butty.