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Eating Out in New Zealand |
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Pacific Rim Cuisine is the highlight of dining out in New Zealand. This unique style of cooking includes everything from Kumara, a local sweet potato to shellfish, pipis, tuatua, and the world famous New Zealand crayfish. The Green-lipped mussels are undoubtedly the best in the world, and available all over the country at minimal cost. When in New Zealand, one must indulge in the vast variety of seafood available. Everything from superb oysters, and other shellfish to smoked eels, and a huge choice of salt and fresh water fish. Fish and Chips are very popular in New Zealand, an institution obviously going back to the English settlement of the country.
Broadly speaking there are styles of restaurants to suit all tastes in New Zealand, as well as having a very distinct and delicious style of it’s own, in Pacific Rim cuisine.
New Zealanders are very keen and committed drinkers with beer being the favoured beverage by men, and wine among women. The two main breweries are New Zealand brewery and Dominion Brewery (DB); they dominate the market though smaller boutique breweries are becoming increasingly popular as New Zealanders look for something new. The wine industry is also thriving, the main winemaking regions are Marlborough, noted for it’s sauvignon blanc, and Hawkes Bay for it’s chardonnay. Increasingly common and popular, are tours of vineyards and wineries, as well as the regions where they are located.
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