The National Fish and Chip Awards for 2012 were announced this week, so in my quest to find the perfect chip shop, I have three more to try out. I will say that I don't have chips that often, in fact maybe once or twice a year, but when I do, I want good chips - don't mind about the fish, as I have sausage normally. I just want good chips, is that too much to ask?
I’m not sure if it’s the case that chips just don’t taste the same anymore, or I have a rose tinted view of chips from when I was little. On the very rare occasions that we had them, it was usually when we visited my Nan in Swansea and went to her local one down the road. A proper old school chippy, blue tiled inside, with just the counter, no seating, and pickled eggs and salt and vinegar and maybe the old can of pop to add to the fish or sausage and chips. And they were lovely. The right proportion of sogginess and crispness and all of them cooked (seems that, in itself, is a challenge these days).
Anyway, the three award winners in various categories in Wales are:
- The Crispy Cod, High Street, Tonyrefail
- Frydays Fish and Chip Emporium, Old St Mellons Post Office, Newport Road, Cardiff
- Zero Plus Fish Bar, in Cowbridge Road, Canton
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