The Best New Zealand Foods and Beverages

 Check Out New Zealand Food and Drinks 

If you are traveling to New Zealand, then you must taste famous and best New Zealand foods and drinks. The food of New Zealand has been drawing inspiration from Asia, Europe, and Polynesia. New Zealand offers a wide range of mouth-watering flavors. Dishes that have New Zealand style are pork, lamb, and salmon, bluff oysters, scallops, mussels, paua, whitebait, kumara, pipis, and tuatua, and tamarillo and Pavlova, the national dessert. Throughout your New Zealand tour, Luxury Travel New Zealand will make sure that you don’t miss anything. 

Apart from this, check out the below best New Zealand foods and beverages:

• New Zealand Lamb

For Kiwis, tender and succulent, roast lamb is a favorite food. In the world, New Zealand lamb is famous and is the top export meat. You can enjoy its flavor with rosemary, and it is served along with various seasonal roasted vegetables. New Zealand Lamb is a meal that you’ll surely love it. 

• Fish and Chips 

One of New Zealand most popular foods is fish and chips. Fish and chips are most likely to have and enjoy while sitting by the beach. You’ll love eating fish when it is coated in a crispy batter and then deep-fried, and it is served alongside hot chips. You can find fish and chips in many restaurant menus and they are usually served with seasonal salad. 

• New Zealand Wine and Other Beverages 

Luxury Travel New Zealand will let you know about different popular wines in New Zealand. You can check out our New Zealand food and wine package as well. New Zealand is famous for its amazing wine flavors. Apart from wines, New Zealand serves you plenty of other beverages, such as Lemon and Paeroa that is a non-alcoholic soft drink, which is made from lemon and carbonated water.

• New Zealand Chocolates

Whenever you visit New Zealand, ask any New Zealander what his/her favorite chocolate, the most probable answer will be Whittakers chocolate. Cookie Time Cookie is biscuits of different sizes and flavors such as gingernut, triple chocolate, macadamia, and white chocolate. Jaffa and pineapple lumps are other New Zealand’s sweets. 

• Humble New Zealand Pies 

Humble pie is one of the best New Zealand foods. New Zealand’s pies are always crusted in a buttery flaky pastry, and they are served in a brown paper bag. You can easily find pies in New Zealand. Apart from this, butter chicken, salmon and bacon, bacon and egg, venison pies, and lamb and mint are award-winning pies at the annual New Zealand pie awards. 

• Cheese 

In New Zealand, there are various cheese companies. Not only cow’s milk is used, but sheep and goat milk are also common. New Zealand is in the 8th position for largest milk producer. Various artisan cheesemakers produce special and high-quality cheese around the country. 

• New Zealand Fruit Salad and Pavlova 

If you are visiting New Zealand, then ensure to try hokey pokey (creamy vanilla ice cream with small balls of crunchy honeycomb). People who belong to New Zealand love Pavlova. It is a dessert that is topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream. You should also try fruit salad in New Zealand. 

• Kumara 

Another one of New Zealand most popular food is kumara, which is a sweet potato used in several dishes cooked in restaurants and households. It ranges from basic roast potatoes and scalloped potatoes to tuna rosti and potato-topped chicken pot pie, as this vegetable can turn into any form. 

New Zealand Cuisines and New Zealand National Dish 

One of the serious questions many people ask what is the New Zealand national dish? Well, it may be possible that people may start a debate on it. There are two dishes from which some people say Fish and Chips are the national food, and some say the humble pie is the national food. If you are looking for local New Zealand Cuisine, then you’ll find that a sausage sizzle is one of the best cuisines in New Zealand. 

A true New Zealand cuisine is Māori hangi, which is an essential culinary experience. It is cooked underground where a deep hole is dug covered with vegetation and lined with red–hot stones. The food (potatoes, pork, kumara, chicken, and lamb) and other vegetables are placed on the top. The water is sprinkled on the whole oven, and then it is sealed with vegetation. Once it is done, it is left for steam for a few hours. 

For special occasions, New Zealand's most popular food Māori hangi is made. Basically, men prepare the hole, and women prepare food. The wine and food festival brings a variety of foods and wines together that complement different New Zealand cuisine and food.

Read about "Eat your way around New Zealand"