White Bait - New Zealand's Caviar?
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 by Dr Maytel
For Hock's Mum's birthday we bought her some wine glasses, a razor zester and 400 gms or $50 NZD worth of South Island whitebait....she was thrilled....Hock made the traditional NZ speciality for her...white bait fritters and the embryonic fishes were drowned in an egg and flour batter and lightly fried and served with lemon.
I relinquished my fritter to my mother in law, knowing what a treat it was for her...personally I've never really understood the NZ fascination with whitebait fritters....to me it just tastes like fish and egg