Hooked on hake and slap chips
. When we up here in Jozi say we want fish and chips, we mean hake and chips. Then, even when the chips are the double fried and crispy sort, we still want vinegar and salt shaken over them. We don’t really want the fancy fish. Sometimes someone has snoek because it’s a nice fish but it isn’t a nicer fish and chips fish. Some places want us to have kingklip and chips, as if hake isn’t wonderful enough especially under creamy-golden batter. Kingklip is not for fish and chips. Actually it’s not for much when there’s hake already and it’s not quite as green as Cape hake on the SA...
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