Clarendon Fish and Chipper

After a long slog with selecting colours, finishes and appliances for our home a dirty greasy burger with the lot was what we were after. South Melbourne fish and chip shop was closed and we had recently been to Hunky Dory.

Clarendon Fish and Chipper looked like the only option. The ubiquitous take away shop bought and run by an Asian mom and dad, where nothing has changed since they probably bought it - maybe the menu signage above the commercial sized range hood but that's all.

While, a suspiciously unfinished meal of dumplings sat on a table by the wall and going cold, a girl at the front of the queue asked 'can I have some dumplings'. The response was that it wasn't on the menu and the meal behind here was a staff persons snack.
They did look delicious though, very plumb and juicy. Since when did an Australian fish and chip shop not sell dumplings even those dodgy steamed or fried dimmies? Appalling and shocking. Clearly this mom and dad demand a high standard for their dumplings and will serve no less.

Anyway, the burger. It was a particularly long and stressful day - our minds were fried. We needed comfort food. A burger with the lot was the order. But, it didn't really have the lot, there wasn't any pineapple, bacon or beet root. At $8.50 should you expect all that? These staples to a burger with the lot were additional options at $0.50 each. The taste wasn't plain but it wasn't greasy either, and strangely besides the bun it tasted kind of healthy.

It isn't anywhere near the quality or taste of an Andrew's Burgers in Albert Park / Port Melbourne. And the craving still lingers and we wander off in the night dissatisfied like a night with a cheap hooker.