Growing up, like some you, fishing chips was an automatic Friday night menu. I tried in England, Australia and here, but nothing close. We went back to my home town of Seattle a couple of years ago, and GREAT. Cod is the necessity. My wife and son know the difference of cold water fish. For me, other than lapu laps here, fish sucks.
The best Fish N Chips I have had was at Atmosphere Resort. Most likely due to the fact it is British owned. Definitely not Lapu Lapu! As I recall they serve a Beer Battered version of 3 choices of Fish being (Dorado, Grouper, or Snapper) Just show up with one arm and leg to pay for it. Between 650 to 760 Pesos.
Shark..... A mate owned a very popular fish and chip shop in Australia and used shark. My MIL tried it and loved it. Was able to buy shark down south in Cebu and it was cheap because the locals didn't like it. Not sure if shark is available in Duma.
One of the better F &C was the guy and wife in the food truck on Valencia road near and across from SSG, anybody know where they are and if they are still cooking...??
Coming from the UK Fish and Chips is sold all over there, the southern part that place they call England they favour Cod, but in the better northern part, Scotland we go for Haddock, there is one fish I found here that is not unlike Haddock, Mull Mull or Parrot fish as it is sometimes known as, when you get this really fresh here I cannot tell the difference, getting it near fresh or perhaps properly iced over when caught is the difficult part, we had one the other day which was super fresh and this made me think of home and about as good as it gets here, however I have been told and this is only hearsay; as this is a reef fish it tends to have some degree of mercury in it and was given a warning not to eat it, in my advanced years I do not really care and I am a bit of a Mad Hatter anyway.
Have you thought about the positive aspects of ingesting mercury? It can be very difficult to find a good thermometer here.
When i was a lad i worked in the Scottish fishing industry repairing trawlers, once the ship had landed its catch at the fish market we would go aboard to work and the deck was always strewn with many types of fish that had fallen out of the baskets and were just left there. We were allowed to take as much as we wanted as they were just left to rot or the seagulls got them, if anybody took cod you could be sure it was only for their cat and the cats would not even eat mackerel, haddock was the one everybody wanted.
What! only for their cat!!!! you must be kidding or codding......The price of cod these days, the cat wouldn't be so lucky. What I like about cod is it's big flakes of white flesh and deep fried in beer batter with chips and peas. ( and not a bone in sight )
