We had finished our lap of the South is. in Dec 2009 and were on the home stretch back to Christchurch before flying up to Wellington. We had booked a night in the Onuku (Oh-No!-ku..see my review on tripadvisor.com) farm backpackers and stopped on the waterfront in Akaroa for a late afternoon feed.
There's a fish and chip shop facing the water about halfway up the street, Rue Jolie, with big wooden seats and benches out the front.
Akaroa is an unconvincing, hokey recreation of a French provincial village, apparently because a bunch of French people populated the place in its early days. It's really just another seaside holiday village like you might find in many parts of the world, I imagine. Geographically, its in an awe inspiring location and the views from around the steep hillsides are relatively nice, though NZ has far more majestic locales than this.
Akaroas' saving grace is the fish and chip shop for sure! We ordered the usual gargantuan serve of chips and sat down to wait whilst we watched the local bogan family next to us destroy every morsel of their food, chips, nice pieces of fish and everything else on their table by dunking it all in tomato sauce ! They had even brought their own just to be sure !! Why you would want to kill the sweet flavour of freshly cooked fish with a glug of salty tomato sauce, I really dont know...
Our serve of chips arrived and they were a creamy even golden, large fingers of chip, crispy and crunchy on each edge, still steamy and fluffy in the middle. They obviously use a different type of potato (we found quite a variation of spud type in NZ) than most and it paid gold !! What a chip ! Magnifique ! ooh-la-la!
Easily the most impressive chip I have ever eaten.
Chip score: 9.5/10 MAGNIFIQUE
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