Blue Sea Fish Shop

The staff at PCC request their loyal readers give a warm welcome to our wonderful guest blogger Stepho, on her debut PCC post: 

Blue Sea Fish Shop is dangerously close to my house. I've had a craving since Wednesday when a certain potato cake blogger I know sent me a link to an article about that time Twitter exploded because people in different parts of Australia have (ludicrous) other names for the humble potato cake.

Scallop. I mean, really. Clearly scalloped potatoes involves milk and baking...completely different thing. I don't claim that potato cake is a LOGICAL name for them, but it's clearly better than freakin' scallop. Or scollop, cause apparently some people spell it that way. These people cannot be argued with.

Anyway, Blue Sea Fish Shop is on High St, Preston and it's under new management. I know, risky. I'd walked past on Wednesday night and not gone in. Thursday night, I caved. You can all relax, it's a risk that has well and truly paid off.



First things first, I only ordered two. So, tick.

Crispy, golden fried, perfectly crunchy with some of those extra scraggly bits of batter which are pretty much the best part. Potato was fluffy, the salt level excellent and impressively uniform. I observed the staffer execute an incredibly careful salt - shake - salt - shake routine. This was clearly not that young man's first rodeo.

So potato cakes, I don't know why I let it be so long. I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship between me, my stomach and Blue Sea Fish Shop.