In the Netherlands one buys Chips / Frites at a Chip Shop or is it a Frites Shop. It comes in a paper cone and it is slathered with mayonnaise and/or ketchup or some other saucy offerings and is often served with a serviette (necessary with all that sauce), and a little plastic or wooden fork – which is also necessary with all that sauce.
Just as well they walk and ride bikes – alot.
I have been so desperate for fish and chips in Amsterdam that I could smell it somewhere – with vinegar, and that is great memory. It may not have been a real smell as the source could not be discovered.
But when I have purchased the smallest amount of chips – the horror that ensues because I do not want any sauce means they try to fill my cone with even more chips – and that is not easy, and I don’t need it. I do however appreciate the effort.
BUT what I really want is Fish and Chips – and they do make deep fried battered small fish pieces – it is Kibbeling an extremely common snack for the Dutch. You can buy it somewhere at any time of day or night. It is always available at a market from a mobile Kibbeling or general fish stall. Kibbeling is crispy deep fried cod and the Dutch also like it served with augurks (pickle gherkin) and mayonaise or other sauces.
Kibbeling is an addiction for the Dutch.
Just as well they walk and ride bikes – alot.
But how come they have chip shops or stalls and they have fish shops or stalls – and they both create deep fried foods – but they cannot buy it at the same place which means it is nigh impossible to eat it together.
Huh
Now I know the New Zealanders out there are doing a collective what *&^%^&&* and a deep sigh (OOOOOHHHHHHHH), because they know and understand what I am missing and they also know and understand just what the Dutch are missing
Fish and Chips, with a piece of lemon or a splash of vinegar, maybe some mayo, maybe some tartare sauce.
Me, I am just hanging out for plain fish and chips with a piece of lemon, or a dash of vinegar.
Just as well I walk a lot, and ride a bike – a bit.
Because I may have to become addicted to Kibbeling and Chips as well, as it is as close as I can get here, to Fish and Chips.
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I know just what you mean – I’m a Brit in Japan and I really miss proper fish and chips. The occasional ‘gaijin bar’ serves a version, but the fish is always breaded rather than battered and the chips are always dry oven chips. If they give you salt there’s no vinegar, and if they give you vinegar you have to go beg them for some salt. *sobs*
I’m glad to hear you can get an almost-as-good substitute
I understand exactly what you mean , when we lived in Lae in Papua New Guinea there was no fish and chip shop and I really missed them, there was no subsitute at all except for cooking them myself which really wasnt the same. I can remember discussing it with friends one evening during a power black out, (they happened frequently 1st one half the town then the other about 2 hours at a time) anyway my suggestion was why don’t we start up a fish and chip shop , lots of Australians and New Zealanders living there would have loved it. I was given all the financial arguments against this venture, I think the main one was all the potatoes would have to be imported from Australia as they wouldnt grow in the heat. So the idea fell away. 6 months later along came a braver person than me, who opened a fish and chip shop and it boomed. We drove there for our fish and chips every time the there was black out in our half of the town.
What would be the feasibibilty of you starting a fish and chop shop Connie?
luv karen
Thank you for the suggestions- sounds an obvious plan for someone other than myself. I don’t plan on opening fish and chip shop here in NL. I will stick to my knitting, at least I know how to do that.
Drive to Paris, British Fish & Chip restaurants are ‘in’ there now & they do them better than the Brits!
Hi all
We also live in NL and have been searching for the real deal since we moved here 2.5 years ago in vain!!