Tips for studying in New Zealand: What are the eating habits in New Zealand?

New Zealanders' eating styles are quite different, and people generally prefer to eat in an environment that is as relaxed, comfortable and undisturbed as possible, which is not unrelated to New Zealanders' leisurely life philosophy. Hot summer usually means enjoying casual snacks in an open-air coffee bar or holding a barbecue party outdoors. The sumptuous meal includes fresh and juicy mutton, New Zealand venison, lobster and all kinds of fresh fish and shellfish. The endless delicious food makes people drool.

Fruit basket in the South Pacific

The warm climate in the north makes this area a "fruit basket" in the South Pacific, producing rare fruits, such as those famous nuts and avocados. The climate in the south is colder, but the fruit yield is not too high. Traditional cherry orchard and Taoyuan abound. Orchards from south to north make New Zealand famous for producing the best apples. As for kiwifruit, it is a specialty of New Zealand.

In the fruit stalls on the street, New Zealanders can buy fresh fruits and freshly squeezed juices from all over the country, or they can buy fresh fruits that have just been picked from trees in farm shops beside suburban roads, or even go into the village and pick them with their own hands.

Seafood is rich and game is fragrant.

There are many kinds of seafood in New Zealand, including fresh seafood, lobster, abalone, mussels and scallops, and sea urchins that Maori are good at cooking are not difficult to find. As for swimming seafood, there are as many as seventy or eighty kinds, from erythema to Tsing Yi.

Evergreen grasslands feed 70 million sheep all over the country. No wonder the main meat of New Zealanders is mutton. Not to mention all kinds of lamb chops, mutton soup and mutton are not to be missed by tourists. As long as you find a restaurant with mutton coupons outside the door, you can enjoy a delicious and high-quality mutton meal. If it is served with goat cheese and red wine, it is authentic New Zealand flavor.

Game has gradually become a popular food. New Zealand's endless forests and Yuan Ye provide a steady stream of rare birds and animals for those who are good at it. Wild deer and wild boar haunt all year round, and May is the season when wild ducks are obese. If you don't mind killing people, hunting with a gun is easy. Or in early spring (September), chauvinifera and trout swim upstream and stand in knee-deep rapids with nets, and novices can catch one. You can have a barbecue on the floor if you are interested.

The diet in New Zealand is mainly meat meal. Because of the warm climate, vegetables and fruits are quite abundant. Although New Zealand is surrounded by the sea, there are not many seafood. Only shellfish and lobsters (some places are called crayfish, which are a kind of crayfish with big pliers) are considered as delicacies. This dish is only available in a few high-end restaurants, and there are a lot of trout. Just catch it yourself.

Popular fish food, fish sold by vendors and small pieces of food (Fishand Cips, no other fried fish and potatoes) are all wrapped in newspapers and sent to the table. Most venison is exported to Germany, earning a lot of foreign exchange. If you see this dish on the menu, you might as well try it.

Traditional and innovative dietary methods

Traditionally, Maori eat food wrapped in leaves or seaweed and put it on hot stones for hours. Although this method is rare today, there are still many opportunities to meet it in Dowa, North Island.

In recent years, New Zealand cuisine has begun to break away from tradition and bring forth the new. A new generation of chefs can make good use of New Zealand's rich and varied natural foods and create new distinctive dishes. However, in some restaurants in big cities, you can still find traditional foods of various ethnic groups, including Mexican, Indian, Turkish, Italian, China, French and Greek dishes.

Tourism New Zealand tries to hold "Taste New Zealand" activities all over the country to introduce different foods with local colors in each region. Visitors may wish to consider participating in local food festivals in different regions according to different seasons, enjoying rare arrangements and tasting rare New Zealand food in a short time.

Chinese diet

There are many Chinese restaurants in Auckland. I have been to Chinese restaurants, and the decoration and dishes are comparable to those in Hong Kong. But also because of the unique seafood in New Zealand, such as fresh abalone. Fresh mussels, deep-sea fish and "stir-fried" beef tenderloin make the dishes very delicate. Of course, I was surprised to eat such high-quality Cantonese food in New Zealand. Even more surprising, you can eat very delicious roast duck. It turns out that new immigrants from Auckland moved Beijing stuffed ducks from Canada to Auckland for breeding. As you can see, with the immigration tide, ducks moved from China to Canada and then to the Pacific islands.

There is a distinctive snack bar in downtown Auckland. In addition to Wonton Noodles, fried rice and porridge, there are fried dough sticks and rice noodles, which are not far from Hongkong's porridge and noodle exports. With the emergence of immigrants, this snack bar is also very popular. However, the price is quite expensive.