Start your day with Marmite on toast, sauce up a meat pie for lunch and wolf down a sumptuous Hangi feast for dinner. New Zealand is home to a diverse mix of cuisine, but traditional staples favour Maori tradition and pay homage to British links. Seafood is exceptional on the island nation, and no visit is complete without some lamb and a kiwifruit or two. Wash it all down with some signature Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, which experts around the world name as the best there is.
Breakfast
Weet-bix and Hubbers Cereal
Brunch
Cheese: Puhoi, Te Mata
Sanitarium Marmite
Meat pies
Seafood
Whitebait
Cod, Trout
Crayfish
Bluff oysters, Green Lip Mussels, Pāua sea snails
Fish and Chips
Meat BBQ
Māori Hāngi cooking
Roast Lamb
Sausage Sizzle, Muttonbirds
Sides
Roast kumara sweet potato, kumara chips, Huhu grubs
Dessert
ANZAC biscuits
Afghan biscuits
Green Kiwifruit, Gold Kiwifruit, Feijoa fruit
Golden Queen peaches, Roxdale apricots, Stone Fruit
Whittakers peanut slab choc, Lolly cake
Toffee pops, Cookie Time, Jaffas
Pineapple lumps, Chocolate Fish
Custard Squares, Manuka honey
Hokey Pokey icecream
Beverages:
Lemon & Paeroa
Beer:
Tui, Lion, Speights, Steinlager, Monteiths & Macs, Sobering Thought
Wine:
Bordeaux, Pinot Noir, Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
Spirits:
42 Below Vodka
Courtney Gahan is a serial expat, traveller and freelance writer who has bartered with Moroccan marketeers, seen the sun rise at Angkor Wat and elbowed her way through crowds on NYE in NYC
