Sa Sa Fish & Chips

Sa sa was my staple ‘go to’ chippy when I lived on Newmarket Road. They offer all you would expect from a chippy and have a fair range of Chinese food on the menu also.
Generally, you will be served by a late middle aged Chinese woman, whilst her husband attends to the frying and preparation of the Chinese dishes out back. Her command of the English language is somewhat limited, but thankfully her command of manners, plus good humour are certainly not lacking!
I have only ventured onto the Chinese menu once and must admit that this is certainly a chippy offering Chinese food opposed to a Chinese with a few English dishes tacked on. The prawns and rice were simply that and although adequate, were a little bland. This being said, if you want Chinese then go to a Chinese takeaway. The fish and chip menu is both reasonable and mostly cooked to order. The chips weren’t too greasy (mark of infrequent oil changing) and the batter is crispy, as well as tasty.
You will buy a meal to satisfy the heartiest of appetites for under a £5 (or about £2 if you go for a sausage etc) I would recommend the prawn crackers that they are happy to serve you whilst you wait for your food to be cooked. It’s just a shame that it’s a bit out of the way and only likely to be frequented by Lewis road residents.

Not a bad «Plaice» this (I crack me up…), offering very good prices for a chippy, and serving until very late indeed. Its not in the best position to visit on the way home from a night out, and being on Lewes Road, it is a little fiddly to get to however you plan to travel. But if your looking for budget grub, you could do a lot worse. I first tasted the wares of this place when my incredibly hyper mate came back from a house party a little earlier in the evening than I was expecting, brandishing a sausage and bag of prawn crackers. Impressed at the prawn crackers/​sausage combo, I enquired to where he had been. He told me «So So», which I believed was the name of the place until I came to reviewing it!
I also thought that the food must be filled with some crazy amounts of sugar or something due to my friends excitable state, but I soon realised it was just the alcohol/​caffeine combo he’d been experimenting with.

Just until the other day I’d always read the sign as ‘So so’, which is quite a self deprecating act on your own business. The fish is very reasonable for what you get, the large Haddock at £3 I quite a catch and they even do battered Mars bar for £1.60! which is a rare find. The menu is hand written in pencil and isn’t dwarfed by the sister Chinese menu. None of this was quite as good as the woman who works there, she’s just hilarious. There may have been a slight language barrier between us but that was not for part of trying through fumbled common ground and broken hand gestures. I’ve always had trouble getting a standard chip butty in Brighton, on my travels I’ve had no end of obscure variations on what I feel is rather straight forward. It wasn’t until I was home that I realized again I had been done over. Unwrapping my food, it revealed a mound of chips topped off with three unbuttered white slices of bread planted on. Honestly, when will this madness end?