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Sue Wrote:

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> Pugwash Wrote:

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> > Emily's North Cross Road - run by Ahmed and his

> > wife.

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> They are really lovely people, but sadly the chips

> aren't lovely.

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> In my experience :(



Yep, food is awful. i live about 1 minute walk away so wanted it to be really nice, but its not. Ordered curry sauce with my chips and his scruffy mate was summoned to make the curry sauce which he done by boiling a kettle and pouring it over some kind of powder and stirring it for a while. battered sausage was inedible. Shame, because they were friendly people.

Another vote for Ken?s. After reading the reviews on here, and the positive feedback online I went to get Cod and Chips last night. A decent, old fashioned, good quality fish and chip shop. Rare find in London, more like the fish and chips you would expect on the pier at the seaside. If you?ve not been before, I would highly recommend.


Louisa.

I find the Fish and Chips at Sema and Emily?s grim. None of my family can eat it. We take a trip to Ken?s to pay a fortune for the fish and chips there. Still not the best compared to all the lovely fish and chips we consumed in Dorset but the best out of a bad bunch around here.


Anyone tried the fish and chips at Saucy on LL?

I didn't like Sea Cow. I ordered large haddock and chips once. Got home to discover 2 measly haddocks squashed together! Cheeky. Rosie's is pretty decent but again I ordered rock once and I noticed the fish smelled like ammonia so I couldn't eat it. I guess not that many people order the rock?


edit to say I've been to Rosie's loads and it's usually decent.

Humdinger Wrote:

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> Ordered curry sauce with my chips and his scruffy

> mate was summoned to make the curry sauce which he

> done by boiling a kettle and pouring it over some

> kind of powder and stirring it for a while.


Chip shop curry sauce is always made from sort of powder/granules. Absolutely standard.


Saying that, I'm not a massive fan of Emily's either. Fish just not crispy enough.

I get that, but a good chip shop will have a vat/silver cauldron of it made up, kept warm and ready to serve. This is because the chip shop is so good and popular that they need it close to hand.


The way it was prepared, in some old looking coffee mug by a mate in a grubby, paint stained t-shirt didnt make it very appetising, no matter the basic similarities of the actual make up of the sauce.

Loutwo Wrote:

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> Curry sauce is a welsh thing with chips, not

> northern, that?s gravy.


Curry sauce is common in Liverpool, Manc, Leeds chippies... much more so than London. And a quick Google seems to indicate that it's big in Ireland. Not sure about Wales... don't go there much...

Glad someone else remembers Steve?s, bob. Corner of Bellenden and Maxted Road. I remember going in there from childhood right up until the late 80?s. Italian family. They sometimes chucked in some batter crackling if you were a regular. Now THAT was a proper fish and chip shop.


Louisa.

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