Last, best fish & chips in Chiang Mai?

[Old Curmudgeon]

On 1/7/2025 at 6:49 PM, steven100 said:

the topic brings back wonderful cherished memories.

 

Hello @steven100 -

 

I'm smiling to know that I can bring back good memories for you.

 

I would smile even more if I could bring your focus to the topic, which is Chiang Mai, Thailand.

By chance do you happen to know a really fine chippie here?

[Captain Flack]

A baiting post has been removed, please discuss the topic and not other posters.

[steven100]

34 minutes ago, roo860 said:

Was this in England?

no .... Australia

[Keeps]

1 hour ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

 

Hello @steven100 -

 

I'm smiling to know that I can bring back good memories for you.

 

I would smile even more if I could bring your focus to the topic, which is Chiang Mai, Thailand.

By chance do you happen to know a really fine chippie here?

I would stick to using the term Fish and Chip shop if I were you. Otherwise, people may be confused regarding what you are actually looking for....

 

usually chippie slang, disapproving. a. : a woman who has multiple sexual partners : a woman who is sexually promiscuous. b. : a woman who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay : a woman who is a sex worker.

 

 

[Bill97]

On 1/8/2025 at 6:26 PM, Old Curmudgeon said:

But, yes, I could have been more clear about that

A new master of understatement.

[PizzaBoi]

Not sure what's with all the weird replies for such a simple question.

Anyway, the best place is definitely The Chippy at The Gate. They use beef tallow to fry, so you get the authentic chippy experience. No where else in Chiang Mai does that (to my knowledge).

You can also try U.N. Irish Pub & Restaurant, they do decent fish & chips too. And O.M.G. Bar and Restaurant is quite good (their pizzas are nice as well).

 

One other place would be Archers Restaurant & Bar, but The Chippy at The Gate is definitely the best in my opinion.

Hope that helps

 

[BritManToo]

I regularly eat at Au Der Auf German buffet, 240bht for all you can eat.

The fried fish in batter if perfectly acceptable, but no chips, it's sliced roast potatoes or mashed potatoes which go quite well with gravy from the meatballs section.

Add some thick sliced ham, a selection of odd German rolls and bread, coffee, tea and puddings and you're full to bursting.

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I regularly eat at Au Der Auf German buffet, 240bht for all you can eat.

 

 

   Do you get a free meal there every time you mention the restaurant ?

[Bill97]

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Do you get a free meal there every time you mention the restaurant ?

Hey it’s the only restaurant he knows 

[recom273]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

.. sliced roast potatoes ..

 

Is that a German thing? Sliced roast potatoes? just asking.

[BritManToo]

20 minutes ago, Bill97 said:

Hey it’s the only restaurant he knows 

I also so eat regularly at La Casita Mexican, Rajdarbar Indian, and KhuaLek Cafe Thai.

No fish and chips at any of them, but I don't go out enough to visit more than four different restaurants.

[Bill97]

38 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I also so eat regularly at La Casita Mexican, Rajdarbar Indian, and KhuaLek Cafe Thai.

No fish and chips at any of them, but I don't go out enough to visit more than four different restaurants.

How about Punjab Grill for Indian.  We like it.

 

aka Grill of Punjab 

[narkeddiver]

You need to stop with all this talk of food that is not the Fish & Chips mentioned by the OP lest he remonstrate with you for not being precisely on topic 😉

[Keeps]

39 minutes ago, narkeddiver said:

You need to stop with all this talk of food that is not the Fish & Chips mentioned by the OP lest he remonstrate with you for not being precisely on topic 😉

Ha Ha. I actually responded with a suggestion for Fish and Chips and still made it on to the OP's Ignore list! Hate to think what he would do to those discussing Indian food and German buffets......

[Bill97]

1 hour ago, narkeddiver said:

You need to stop with all this talk of food that is not the Fish & Chips mentioned by the OP lest he remonstrate with you for not being precisely on topic 😉

Like we care what he does

[roo860]

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I regularly eat at Au Der Auf German buffet, 240bht for all you can eat.

The fried fish in batter if perfectly acceptable, but no chips, it's sliced roast potatoes or mashed potatoes which go quite well with gravy from the meatballs section.

Add some thick sliced ham, a selection of odd German rolls and bread, coffee, tea and puddings and you're full to bursting.

Was there Christmas Eve, cauliflower cheese, love it!!!!!

[roo860]

On 1/9/2025 at 5:28 PM, Keeps said:

I would stick to using the term Fish and Chip shop if I were you. Otherwise, people may be confused regarding what you are actually looking for....

 

usually chippie slang, disapproving. a. : a woman who has multiple sexual partners : a woman who is sexually promiscuous. b. : a woman who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay : a woman who is a sex 

It's spelt Chippy,  for a fish and chip shop.

[Keeps]

37 minutes ago, roo860 said:

It's spelt Chippy,  for a fish and chip shop.

I know that but the OP I was responding to didn't. Hence my post. 

[Thailand]

14 hours ago, recom273 said:

 

Is that a German thing? Sliced roast potatoes? just asking.

Scalloped potatoes, roast fried or baked, where I come from and it's not Germany. 

Fish and scalloped potatoes anyone?

[roo860]

21 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Scalloped potatoes, roast fried or baked, where I come from and it's not Germany. 

Fish and scalloped potatoes anyone?

Fried in batter, called Fritters in Chip shops, used to be very popular when I was a kid, don't see them alot nowadays.

Chippy at the Gate for me is IMO the best in Chiang Mai 

[Old Curmudgeon]

On 1/10/2025 at 1:35 PM, PizzaBoi said:

Not sure what's with all the weird replies for such a simple question.

 

Yes, very weird, indeed.

But that's okay ... makes it easy to add to my list of ignored users.

 

 

On 1/10/2025 at 1:35 PM, PizzaBoi said:

Anyway, the best place is definitely The Chippy at The Gate. They use beef tallow to fry, so you get the authentic chippy experience.

 

Then we have a winner.

Any chippy that uses beef tallow is in an entirely different league than those that don't.

Thank you, @PizzaBoi for that valuable information.

[Bill97]

1 hour ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

But that's okay ... makes it easy to add to my list of ignored users.

Nobody gives a danm about your ignore list.

[Keeps]

4 hours ago, Bill97 said:

Nobody gives a danm about your ignore list.

He is so deluded he actually thinks people are going to be upset and view this as some sort of punishment 😂. 

[scottiejohn]

5 hours ago, Keeps said:

He is so deluded he actually thinks people are going to be upset and view this as some sort of punishment 😂. 

I would treat it as a badge of honour!

[Paul Catton]

On 1/11/2025 at 1:13 PM, roo860 said:

Fried in batter, called Fritters in Chip shops, used to be very popular when I was a kid, don't see them alot nowadays.

Chippy at the Gate for me is IMO the best in Chiang Mai 

Agree with roo860, scalloped potatoes, are battered "sliced crosswise" potatoes covered in batter and deep fried. Still prevalent  in New Zealand. 

Beef Tallow known as "Drippping" was always the preferred choice for the frying medium back in the day.

Keeping this medium clean for multiple re-use was an exercise in itself and does come at a cost, most modern day chippies will use a "Vegetable Type oils, ie Canola etc..."  and then discard within a week when the breakdown occurs through the continuous reheahting.

 

I managed the very first "Fish and Chip" shop in Saudi Arabia back in the 1980's serving about 200+ portions per day.

 

I was always at times,  chief cook, waiter and bottle-washer when hat was required.

 

Hat off and praise to the "Chippy at the Gate". 

 

Didn't see bags of scratchings for the poor or takeaway. 

[NickyLouie]

On 1/7/2025 at 5:07 PM, Old Curmudgeon said:

 

 

 

 

 

Is this healthy ?

 

[scottiejohn]

1 hour ago, NickyLouie said:

 

Is this healthy ?

 

Who cares if it is delicious?

[damole]

https://www.facebook.com/TheChippyatTheGate

 

It says delivery on Grab

[damole]

I went today at lunchtime.  I was the only customer. I am from the UK and a self-proclaimed chip geek. 

 

I ordered the small cod and chips and mushy peas.  I started to read a news article on my tablet and before I had finished my food arrived.  This was a little suspicious for me.   I still cook chips, when back in the UK, the old fashioned way as my mum always did in a tradtional deep fat fryer with a lip for holding the basket above the oil to allow the oil to reheat before a second frying. I knew the chips could not have been cooked fresh.  They were too "narrow" to be real UK chip shop chips and a bit soft. 

 

The fish batter was crisp and the cod very good.  The mushy peas were OK.

 

Overall for 380 Bt it was OK.   It's not so easy to get great fish&chips in the UK so I woudn't expect perfection but I am a firm believer in freshly cut chips cooked to order.  For me, the other places I used to more regularly eat fish & chips at, provide better value for something comparable.

 

I would knock of half a star for not having a plate large enough for all the food.

 

[BritManToo]

That doesn't look good, and is way more that I'd pay.

That fish looks like it was from a box of frozen Birds-eye hoki.