Comments on: Lunch in Kisumu

By: Vasco Pyjama

Vasco Pyjama — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:01:52 +0000

"But I'm sorry, lemon on fish and chips is for people who ask for guacamole when they are pointing at mushy peas in the chipper."

Oi. What happened to fusion cooking with bangers on lentils and that? And besides, I like my fish with a combination of chilli sambal, lime juice and soy sauce...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:56:47 +0000

I can’t help thinking I should be eating prawns and coconut rice, curried red snapper and Kilifi oysters at the coast. Fair point though

By: onthedhow

onthedhow — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:07:02 +0000

“There is fish and chips available in Nairobi. But Kisumu is the best place to have it as the city is right on Lake Victoria…”
Mombasa?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:47:47 +0000

The small silver jug had tartare sauce. And that greenish white thing that looks like a face on my plate is indeed lemon. But I’m sorry, lemon on fish and chips is for people who ask for guacamole when they are pointing at mushy peas in the chipper.

By: Vasco Pyjama

Vasco Pyjama — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:07:32 +0000

Woah, that looks really good. I mean, would be better if there was a wedge of lemon or tartare sauce. And if it was beer batter, but still, as you said, it’s fish and chips.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:06:52 +0000

There is fish and chips available in Nairobi. But Kisumu is the best place to have it as the city is right on Lake Victoria. I wouldn't say any of it is bad fish and chips - but it always ends up a little on the average side.

And I can't really complain about food. We have some pretty good restaurants and food stores here. You can get most things, but they are often not quite as good as I hoped. Pork pies and Cadbury's chocolate (diff recipe here) are probably the only things I would say I missed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:47:49 +0000

Can you not get anything approaching this in Nairobi? And is bad fish an chips like sex a la the @ourman theory of pizza??

http://twitter.com/ourman/status/975900619

As I get to the UK so much these days I find it hard to feel your pain or even remember how it felt out in Asia. I do remember desperately trying to ration the three cans of Irn Bru I would stash back to Vietnam. Never lasted more than a week or two at most before they'd all gone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:44:57 +0000

Lake Victoria is very badly polluted. But I reckon the fish is the same fish wherever it is served. So long as you don’t buy the old stuff that is hawked around the slums…

By: Rafiki

Rafiki — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:06:12 +0000

Looks yummy. I have also had these fish and chips at Imperial, but I still prefer the fried fish sold on the lakeshore, although last time I started wondering about the quality of the fish when witnessing all the other activities going on in the water (washing of cars etc.). We don’t really know anymore what exactly we are eating.