New Zealand: Food

New Zealand's cuisine has been described as Pacific Rim, drawing inspiration from Europe, Asia and Polynesia. This blend of influences has created a mouth-watering range of flavours and food in cafes and restaurants nationwide. For dishes that have a distinctly New Zealand style, there's lamb, pork and cervena (venison), salmon, crayfish (lobster), Bluff oysters, paua (abalone), mussels, scallops, pipis and tuatua (both are types of New Zealand shellfish), kumara (sweet potato), kiwifruit, tamarillo and pavlova, the national dessert.

For the outgoing and brave people who are willing to try anything, the Wild foods Festival is something you can't miss. Anything unusual and extreme is on the list of things to try.
Held every year in Hokitika, this festival is all about celebrating New Zealand's wild foods from New Zealand. People from New Zealand and the globe come to Hokitika every year to join in on this celebration of food. The Wild foods Festival has become so popular that it has gone on to win awards.