Another New Zealand delicacy

kiwi rainbow · Senior Member

Another New Zealand delicacy

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Stop it !! Lol

Happywanderer · The Master

Oh, I love whitebait fritters. My late husband Dan, had his own nets and his favourite spot at Ohau. In whitebait season we lived on them.

petersumpters · Veteran Member

I have eaten a whitebait fritters and it really tastes good. Delicious!

sarg · Guru

YUMMY YUMMY......

Bunkerbob · Senior Member

We used to get a cup of whitebait, mix in 1 egg and that was 1 fritter. That was over 45 (er, probably make that 50) years ago. We were in Greymouth on the West Coast of the South Island about 5 years ago and we saw Whitebait Fritters on a restaurant menu.

What a disappointment.

Was about 3 inches across, had 9 white baits in it and the rest was batter, flour and water basically. I still dream of the real thing though.

Apparently hugely expensive nowadays which probably explains the size per fritter.

Bob

Radar · Guru

All hi

We were in NZ South Island a couple of years back and we were entertained by the locals trapping the white bait in the rivers around Greymouth.

That night we were in a hotel for dinner and it was on the menu, much like most fish cakes but I did enjoy.

What I have trouble with is understanding how the people give up weeks of there time to trap these little fish, camping out in rough condition for few buckets of small fish. Cheers.

-- Edited by Radar on Thursday 27th of February 2014 11:54:40 PM

Bunkerbob · Senior Member

The bugger of a job is to gut them. Takes absolute ages which probably explains the expense.

Bob

kiwijims · Guru

"Oh" those lovely Whitebait fritters, there's nothing like them.

Before I left home, ( The Golden Bay ) near Nelson, we used to catch Whitebait in the Collingwood River,

If they were running, we could catch a 20l can full in under half a hour, these were shoved straight in the freezer,

that is the remainder were, after we made the fresh Fritters and had our fill.

We didn't waste time gutting they either, ruins the taste. biggrin biggrin biggrin

kiwijims smile

Dougwe · Chief one feather

What's this, NO famous Pav for desert??

kiwi rainbow · Senior Member

Dougwe, did you not note that I was not the chef!! Besides, we have to leave something for later.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I did note that KR but thought the famous Pav would make an appearance. A bit like when you are told not to bring anything you still feel like you should.

White bate sounds interesting, Just wondering what you could catch after eating it ?

Cruising Cruze · Guru

Doug it looks like that JC has put on some weight on that Photo biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Kiwi-as · Guru

Doug, if we gave the JCs all the goodies at once, they would have no reason to stay around would they. biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Cruising Cruze wrote:
Doug it looks like that JC has put on some weight on that Photo

Aha Very very easy over there !!!

Judes and Bazz · Senior Member

For an ex kiwi those piccys were out of this world!!!!!
Ohhh yuuuuuummmmeeeee!!! and topped off with trifle my favourite pudd.
Our whitebait used to be caught in the southern end of the south Island at the Waiau mouth and we had many a fat feed now sadly only when we return home for holiday.
Enjoy Jude