New Zealand's Nice Things

I will show about New Zealand traditional meal. “Hangi”. It is Maori’s traditional meal. Hangi is made on a special day. First, Maori men dig a hole in the ground and Maori woman prepare foods. The foods are chicken, pork, beef, cabbage, kumura, pumpkin and so on. They put the foods on baked stone and cover the foods with leaves. Then Maori men bury the foods in the hole. The foods are steamed a few hours. There is a rule when they make hangi. Maori woman must not approach the hole; it is tradition. Some Japanese don’t like hangi because it smells bad. However like this, it takes a lot of time to make hangi so it is better to eat hangi.
The next, wine is necessary for dinner in New Zealand. New Zealand is abundant in natural resources so New Zealanders can make a good wine. They usually drink it at a party. In addition, some people eat desserts after dinner in New Zealand. It may be a part of dinner. The desserts are ice-cream, puvrova and so on. The most popular ice-cream in New Zealand is “Horkey-Porkey-ice-cream”. There are pieces of caramel in vanilla ice-cream. Then, pavrova was made when a ballerina, Anna Pavrova gave a performance in New Zealand.


There are some differences between New Zealand and Japan, but there are not big differences. It is similar style of dinner between New Zealand and Japan. However both of their traditional foods are quite different. New Zealanders have a lot of foreign foods so Japanese foods are so popular in New Zealand. Actually, a lot of Japanese restaurants are seen in New Zealand. My host family said they like Japanese foods so they often go to the restaurants. But most New Zealanders don’t like natto so there are not nattomaki at most restaurants. Most New Zealanders know Japanese foods in addition they often eat them. A lot of Japanese students liked Fish & Chips and Pizza of New Zealand, so most of Japanese probably like New Zealand dishes.

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