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New Food: Lap Lap

Lap Lap With Coconut Milk Peel taro using a sharp knife. Taro root + coconut. Remove all of the taro skin, as it can irritate mouth and fingers. 2. Heat rocks in fire pit. 3. “Scratch” coconuts to extract the meat. Daughter Grace and a Peace Corps buddy demonstrate how to scratch coconuts using a scraper attached to a stool. 4. Squeeze coconut meat to release milk. Set milk aside for sauce.…

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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 :) 

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Vanuatu national food- lap lap

Vanuatu’s national dish is a root vegetable cake called ‘laplap’. It is made from manioc (cassava) grated or shaved into a banana leaf with wild local cabbage that I was talking about before and coconut, wrapped into a flat parcel and cooked underground. 

Vanuatu staple root veggie " manioc" 

plantain - cooking banana 

I found " lap lap" in the market 

Manioc lap lap with chicken - 200 vatu 

I bought it but gave the chicken back. 

banana  lap lap -50 vatu

No plastic bag to take away, banana leaf ! 

Banana and manioc lap lap 

*Cooking banana -plantain 

It is first time for me to try plantain. 

Texture is like potato. Taste? a little bit sour and sweet at the same time. I can taste a little bit banana like taste but taste more like sweet and sour potato. 

* Manioc 

Manioc is grated so it is like potato cake. I can smell and taste bit of smoky flavour from local cabbage and lap lap leaf. I must say, I need a little more salt but it is yummy. 

back side of manioc cake is quite crispy and little bit oily 

It is always exiting to have national dish !!!!!!