really nice and crispy. so the consistency is very important it has to bejust right, so. like this? yeah, i think that s perfect. we re going to cover the fish in the batter and then, as you drop it in the oil, you want to kind of brush it. 0h! ..a little bit, like that, ok? and then i m just going to drop these chips in as well, and then if you could do the other two fish. how s my brushing technique? for the first time, it s ok. i ve never done this before! wow! if we have a lot of orders on, you re going to have to. right. ..get them in there. gotta pick up the pace! yeah, come on. it s my first ever fish and chips. just when i thought it was my time for a break, i had to get to grips with another of their delicacies a deep fried snickers bar. yes, you heard right a deep fried chocolate bar. sam s wife kumi was on hand to show me how this famous
secrets, but you can give me a hand. 0k. here s some gloves. thank you. this fish is local okinawan fish, it s hiromachi. so it s a cold water white fleshed fish. great. and it s delicious. before every single order, we get fresh beer. whoa! it s bubbly. so, why do you use fresh beer? we want the bubbles to make it nice and fresh so that when the batter goes into the oil, it s going to bubble up and be really nice and crispy. so the consistency is very important, it has to be just right, so. like this? yeah, i think that s perfect. we re going to cover the fish in the batter and then, as you drop it in the oil, you want to kind of brush it. 0h! ..a little bit, like that, ok? and then i m just going to drop these chips in as well, and then if you could do the other two fish. how s my brushing technique? for the first time, it s ok. i ve never done this
i have another idea. so don t go away. the humble fish and chips is a staple of the great british diet, one that i ve been missing since moving from the uk 10 years ago. but i m in luck. i ve been told this traditional takeaway has finally arrived onjapanese shores in the unlikeliest of places. i ve travelled to a small island south of okinawa to try it out. so we re making our way across ishigaki island. it was a 3 hour plane journey from tokyo and we re actually around 400 kilometres from the okinawa main island itself. we re actually closer to taiwan than we are to japan. so i ve been to ishigaki a few times. it s an easy island
i ve travelled to a small island south of okinawa to try it out. so we re making our way across ishigaki island. it was a 3 hour plane journey from tokyo and we re actually around 400km from the okinawa main island itself. we re actually closer to taiwan than we are to japan. so i ve been to ishigaki a few times it s an easy island getaway from tokyo. and while i ve had a lot of good seafood here i ve never actually had british fish and chips. you must be sam. hi! hello! nice to meet you. so tell me about bonnie blue and your business here, sam. we re trying to do kind of uk style fish and chips with beer batter, but we use okinawan beer and we use
and the fish is just crunchy enough. so far, so good, but now for the real test the deep fried snickers bar. you re not getting it. did you expect it to be so good? no, ididn t. what, deep fried snickers? eugh! it s gorgeous! but not everyone is convinced. it s terrible! laughter. it s really, really bad! oh, well. everyone loved the main course, at least, and i ve certainly enjoyed my time making these exotic takes on british classics. it s really good! who would ve thought a chippy van would ve made it here, to an island over 6,000 miles away from the uk? and people say british food doesn t travel well! well, think again! well, next up, we re headed to russia where,