L'Ocean Fish & Chips

G&C Crispy Batter Mix
19 Myer Street
Lakes Entrance,
Victoria 3909 Australia
Phone: 03 5155 2253
Fax: 03 5155 2169
Mobile: 0428 552 253
email:
manager@crispybatter.com.au

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L'Ocean Fish and Chips
19 Myer Street
Lakes Entrance, Victoria 3909 Australia
Phone: +61 3 5155 2253
Fax: +61 3 5155 2160
Mobile: 0428 552 253
email: manager@crispybatter.com.au

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L’Ocean Fish and Chips
where the quality comes first.

The Healthy Alternative

The Healthy way to eat

L’Ocean Fish and Chips has been trading in Lakes Entrance since 1992. At L’Ocean, we use a cholesterol free vegetable oil to cook our fish and chips, giving an 80 % saturated fat free product for our valued customers.

Coeliac sufferers and people with lactose intolerance can enjoy our crispy batter without fear, as we sell a choice of fish in either normal batter or Crispy Batter, which was developed specifically to cater for these health problems.

Crispy Batter was developed by G & C Crispy Batter, a Hypo-allergenic Product, and this is suitable for allergy sufferers with wheat, gluten, yeast and dairy sensitivities.

	Hypo allergenic
	Thin and crispy
	Less oil content – bringing out the full flavour of the sealed ingredients
	Ask for Crispy Batter

We have a large and varied menu with:

	fresh local fish
	homemade fries
	fish burgers
	chicken-burger,
	beef hamburgers
	souvlaki
	seafood basket
	vegetarian meals

mixed green salad with oil free dressing

	Free home delivery Wednesday to Sunday to anywhere within a 5Klm radius of the shop. (Conditions apply over 5 Klms)
	Kids packs are available

	At L'Ocean we cater for people with allergy problems, Heart Problems, Diabetes and Asthma.
	We have a variety of Vegetarian Food.
	You can find us in Myer Street, Lakes Entrance, just up from the traffic lights.

See our Guest Book......

Visitor	From	Comments
Doug and Betty C.....	Alberta, Canada	Good Food and Service
Mel and Gloria G....	Alberta, Canada	Good Food, Best Souvlaki
Mr. and Mrs. Jim B....	Podam, USA	Excellent - We Love it
Angela and Alan W....	England	Excellent Fish and Chips, wish they were like that in England
Maisie P.... (Coeliac)	Pakenham, Australia	Delicious- We will be back
David H.... (Coeliac)	Langwarren, Australia	at last - we can eat the same as everyone else.
Glen D..... (Coeliac)	Beconsfield, Australia	First Fish and Chips in 8 years
Rex Hunt (Fishing World)	Australia	What a pleasure to buy Fish and Chips here - Excellent
Dave Hughes ( The Glass House)	Australia	Nothing but the best for you.

"One bite, and you're hooked" - In Praise of Fish and Chips

But where did this famous culinary delight originate?

The simple answer is that no one really knows. We do know that fish and chips developed separately - the Belgians invented chips or “chipped pommes de terre à la mode” (from the humble potato commonly believed to have been brought to Spain from South America via Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 17th Century) . Australia has adopted Britain's beloved fish and chip meal and adapted it as its own.

La pomme de terre was first introduced to Europe in 1534. In 1563 it was introduced to England by John Hawkins, but it's cultivation was neglected. It was reintroduced into England in 1586 by Sir Francis Drake and by Sir Walter Raleigh to Ireland in the same year. It was not introduced to France until 1593. It came of age in 1619, when it was first served at the royal table in England. The English introduced it to Flanders during the wars against Louis XIV(16th and 17th Centuries)

Potatoes are an energy food with 100 calories per 100 grams, they are rich in carbohydrates, have few mineral salts, contain vitamins B and C and a very small amount of iodine. The starch is the most assimilable of all, and for this reason it can be included in the diet of diabetics where it is considered a highly desirable food. There are only traces of fats and calcium.

	Weight for weight, the potato contains two and a half times less carbohydrate than bread.
	Frying the potato is the most efficient way of preserving the mineral content.

Fish and chips are a valuable source of protein, fibre, iron and vitamins, providing a third of the recommended daily allowance of vitamins for men and about half for women. Comparing fish and chips with other take-away foods provides a few surprises in the nutritional stakes:

	Apart from fish and chips being a delicious tasty dish, fish is very healthy being high in B vitamins and protein.
	Add potatoes (chips) to it and you've got yourself a nutritious,and relatively balanced meal.
	Eating thick cut chips is much healthier than thin fries because they soak up less fat. Typically, thin fries contain around 15% fat compared to 7% in thick cut chips. At "L'Ocean" we only use Rice Bran Oil cholesterol free cooking oil making this a healthy take-away meal.

More Fishy Tales ?

	The record for the most portions of fish and chips sold by an independent fish and chip shop in one day is over 4,000!
	Did you know that fish and chips were the only take-away food not to be rationed during the Second World War in UK. Frederick Lord Woolton, Minister of Food at the time, even allowed mobile frying vans to carry fish and chips to evacuees around the country!
	Warren Mitchell, alias Alf Garnett, tells us that his grandmother often told him, "When business is good, people eat fish and chips. When business is bad, people eat fish and chips. Start a fish and chip shop and you'll never go hungry."
	In 1838 Charles Dickens wrote about fried fish warehouses in his novel 'Oliver Twist'. These warehouses were the forerunner to fish and chip shops - but the partner to the fish wasn't the traditional chip as we see today, but we can thank the French for developing our "french fries". The fish was sold by street vendors who carried the goods in trays hung around their necks. The fish was purchased cold for about a penny a portion.

Just to Chip Inn!!!!!

	The ecstasy of consumption, in all its many forms and guises, can be captured in one singular, all encompassing experience. I'm not talking about the delicate white wine sauces of Northern France, or the truffles and sweet delights of Belgium. I refer to the innumerable pleasures of the tens of thousands here in Australia, who participate in the ritual of that most Australian tradition, the Saturday night Fish and Chip Dinner.
	There are but a few culinary offerings which transgress both class and wealth - and fish and chips is certainly one. It is noted that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II is partial to a regular serving of Dover Sole, fresh from the shores of Ireland. One can be fairly sure, however, that this would be presented, not with roughly cut chips, but more likely with sauté potatoes or perhaps even fresh garden peas.
	The robustness and longevity of the fish and chip supper is evident when one considers the demise of many similar foodstuffs laid low by the message for us all to be HEALTHY. The new enemy is now fat, and we, at L'Ocean, are careful to use only acceptable low cholesterol BESTFIELD RICE BRAN HEART PREFERRED vegetable oil to cook both our normal and our crispy batter. The humble chip stands alone in defense of its salt water Monarch, whether it is whiting, flake or any of the locally caught fresh fish available in Lakes Entrance.

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Loyalty Cards

We know that once you have tried our delicious Fish & Chips you will want to come back for more. Those of you who have already sampled our fine dishes will know what we are talking about. Because we really enjoy seeing see the same faces (as well as the new ones) coming through our doors, week after week, we are running a promotion for all of our loyal customers.

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Print out our Internet Voucher and bring it in to the shop and get a Free cup of Coffee, value $3 with purchase of $15 or more of hot food. We would be pleased to know where you come from, just write you hometown on the back of the voucher.