Lunch!

Jymm and I decided to try some traditional London/British food. Of course, fish and chips comes to mind here. Chips = french fry's. Yesterday we were looking for a cheap place that would take credit cards, and failing that we went to an ATM this morning, determined not to be thwarted today. FYI, the cost of "buying" 32 dollars (20 pounds, that is), was only about 9 cents! Thank you Charles Schwab for not charging conversion fees, and Llyods for not charging ATM fees. Well, somebody charged some fees, or else we wouldn't be 9 cents short, but I'm not complaining!

Lunch time found us walking along Portobello road (jymm's going to talk about that one further).  We saw a few fish and chips places but either they looked very fancy, or in one case, super-not-fancy, but had no prices posted, and appeared to be deep inside some building along a twisty hallway, hidden from view (what did they have to hide???).

Eventually we  got tired of turning down places and took the first one we found. Nearly empty (never a good sign) this place appeared to largely specialize in Malaysia and British breakfast foods (!) but they also had fish and chips. Not exactly the traditional fish and chip shop we had been envisioning. Looking over the menu, however, I realized that the classic "local" food I had been hungering for was lamb sausage and mixed greens/veggies over fried noodles. Local to Malaysia, anyway. To make a long story short, it was fantastic, if oily. Jymm's fish and chips actually tasted lighter, if you can believe that. As you can see in the picture Jymm is sampling my dish, and after we finished she admitted that my meal may have been the better of the two, though I tried her's as well and it was pretty good too.