Thread: Fish & Chips

Hello, LC's had more than 2 small beers again

Let's get the little fella jumping, for sure those veins in his temples feel like popping out again

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Tonight I am having my normal Friday meal and that is fish and chips made lovingly by Jaybees Bar in Pattaya.

Credit where credit is due but I have two meals being two servings of Atlantic Cod in a special beer batter with proper chips, mushy or garden peas and all the condiments for 99 baht per serving and for me my bill is 198 Baht.

I look forward to Fridays. Thanks Johno and let all those internet warriors on those whakey Pattaya food sites that give you stick and that Headworx probably manages to go fuck themselves. These fuckers ooooooozzzzzzeeeeee jealousy but fuck the cvnts!

Well done lad!

You do realize that Jaybee's bar advertise their specials all the time on the food groups right?. I wouldn't know the place existed otherwise, nor would countless others in Pattaya who like to go out to eat and want to keep track of the options. Jaybee's always gets good reviews, never seen a bad work said about it. Here's the pic from the same ad they run across multiple food groups every Friday:


Quite the deal for 99 Baht.

There's other options too, lots of them. Of which you'd know fuck-all about mostly because that would mean accepting that you're pretty much the only one in town with your head up your arse when it come to local knowledge of where to eat. Here's just a few examples from today and being Friday, F&C deals are everywhere:




700gr of Cod in this for 599 Baht. Good luck fitting that in




My call as the best in town. Fucking AWESOME.





But anyway LC thanks for the heads-up about Jaybee's. Always good to learn of somewhere new

And while I've got you, have you done any R&D on this product while checking out the local opposition in the Curry game?



Looks ace, but your expert opinion is needed

You bastard, I'm starving now.

Originally Posted by Norton

Miss a good fisn n chip feed.

Do you remember years ago the American guy used to sell fish & chips next Leo's bar across from the Sofi?
Bloody great they were he used to have the cod shipped in.

Originally Posted by Norton

Years ago there were 2 excellent fish n chip shops just around the corner from Soi Cowboy. Resturant called The Ship and another I can't recall the name of. Miss a good fisn n chip feed.

The other one would have been The Offshore. Fish and chips swimming in oil never tasted so good (after midnight) and it was on the way from Cowboy to the original Lolitas location around the corner. Perfect

I make my own fish n chips.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Fish and chips swimming in oil never tasted so good (after midnight) and it was on the way from Cowboy to the original Lolitas location around the corner. Perfect

A pitstop to cleanse the pallet?:

Originally Posted by Cujo

I make my own fish n chips.

How do you make fresh Atlantic Cod?

Originally Posted by Cujo

I make my own fish n chips.

Yeah, I've tried many times. Those rectangular domestic deep fryers just aren't up to the job. You need a good heat reservoir by having many litres of oil or fat. A big 10 or 15 litre pot of oil might do the trick, but it makes for expensive fish'n'chips with so much oil.

^I've made fish & chips from scratch and what I learned was it's a lot of work in a hot kitchen for a result that wasn't great.

When you can get really good ones made for you for under 300 Baht by people who do it for a living, eating out makes a lot of sense.

We are truly spoiled for stodge from back home in Pattaya.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

We are truly spoiled for stodge from back home in Pattaya.

It is completely ridiculous, but in a good way.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

How do you make fresh Atlantic Cod?

That does look good mate.

John Dory's not a bad substitute for cod

^I've only ever seen John Dory here once, that was eons ago at Bruno's and it was something like 800 Baht per serve. What they palm off as Dory fish here is actually some sort of farmed Catfish from Vietnam that costs about 230 Baht per ton. It looks like this battered:

From the Lion Pub. Haven't been back there for a while so I don't know if they're still selling 2nd rate fish at good fish prices.

And seeing how this is now The Fish thread till LC loads up on Chang and starts telling lies again, here's a nicely battered bit of Cod from the Robin Hood:

For me it has to be Flake (shark) or Barramundi.

^You can get both here, but no battered (that I've seen). Haddock is another fish that you can get here battered, it's nice.

Has anyone at TD ever tried Swai for frying? It's here in the US stores and it's cheap. I always go with the cod even though it costs more..

Have heard bad things about Swai...Farmed Vietnamese catfish or ? It looks like a nice whitefish when its filleted and frozen.

Haddock is what the Scots seem to prefer.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Haddock is another fish that you can get here battered, it's nice.

Haddock is what the Scots seem to prefer.

^^Probably no worse than US farmed catfish...which I refuse to buy anymore.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Haddock is another fish that you can get here battered, it's nice.

Retox do a nice haddock on fridays.

As for cod I was told its not really cod that you get here and I do remember in Penang cod cost a fortune where Dory was the cheaper alternative

Basra is a farmed Vietnamese fish thats not a bad for a farmed fish but crap for fish and chips

Originally Posted by Neverna

Haddock is what the Scots seem to prefer.

Not preferred
Cod was overfished by Euro fishermen and stocks ran so low haddock was an alternative that was sold to the chippies.

If the Scots cant get cod, how the fuck are Pattaya getting it?

Heres the fish they use in Malaysia where the cod is Sea bass