melanesian feast - Vanuatu local food tour
Having local cuisine is my most favourite part when I travel.
As newly vegetarian, it has a lots of conflict during travel. I quite often jump to non vegetarian food when I travel…
Anyway, I didn’t when I joined the Melanesian feast tour
Start from national drink Kava- the mad like horrible taste but make you ” happy “
kava drinking ceremony
Dinner time
Many kinds of food!
sweet potato, taro, corn, potato are wrapped and cooked underground
When we had dinner at Iririki island, we happened to see the ” underground” cooking .
The man is horn to tell us it is ready
Take out the leaf and getting rid of hot stone
Now time to open the leaf !
Natural steaming technique!
Shinboro ( I am not sure about the spelling ) is my most favourite vanutatu food
grated manioc wrapped with local cabbage and cook with coconut
Grated manioc is taste like mochi- the Japanese rice cake
Lap lap
cabbage salad
Local people use lots of cabbage!
potato salad
There were seafood, meat and chicken but I behaved :)
After eating, lots of live music
It was true that local dish use very small salt and very heavy on potato but it was great to enjoy traditional Vanuatu food :)
