Oceania food guides
Flat whites in Melbourne, hāngī in Rotorua, lovo in Fiji and poisson cru in Tahiti: what to eat and where across Oceania.
Oceania runs from the café culture of Melbourne and Sydney and the seafood of New Zealand to Pacific islands where food is still cooked in earth ovens: the hāngī in New Zealand, the lovo in Fiji, the umu in Samoa and Tonga. These Oceania food guides cover what to eat, local food words and kava etiquette, how tipping, surcharges and resort taxes work, and where to eat city by city and island by island, from Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland to Nadi, Papeete, Bora Bora and Apia.
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Australia food guide
Aussie dishes to try, menu slang decoded, tipping, GST and surcharges, and where to eat in seven Australian cities.
New Zealand food guide
Kiwi dishes to try, Māori and menu words decoded, tipping, GST and surcharges, and where to eat across both islands.
Fiji food guide
Fijian and Indo-Fijian dishes to try, menu words decoded, kava etiquette, tipping and tax, and where to eat across the islands.
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Australia food guide
Aussie dishes to try, menu slang decoded, tipping, GST and surcharges, and where to eat in seven Australian cities.
Cook Islands food guide
Cook Islands dishes to try, Māori menu words, umukai and island nights, tipping and tax, and where to eat on Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Atiu.
Fiji food guide
Fijian and Indo-Fijian dishes to try, menu words decoded, kava etiquette, tipping and tax, and where to eat across the islands.
French Polynesia food guide
Tahitian dishes to try, French and Tahitian menu words, roulottes, tipping and paying, and where to eat across the islands.
Guam food guide
Chamorro dishes to try, local food words decoded, fiestas and the Wednesday night market, tipping, and where to eat around Guam.
Marshall Islands food guide
Marshallese dishes to try, local food words, breadfruit, pandanus and coconut, tipping, and where to eat from Majuro to the outer atolls.
Micronesia food guide
Micronesian dishes to try, local food words, sakau and betel nut customs, tipping, and where to eat in Pohnpei, Chuuk, Yap and Kosrae.
New Caledonia food guide
Kanak, French and Asian dishes to try, menu words decoded, bougna, tipping and francs, and where to eat from Nouméa to the islands.
New Zealand food guide
Kiwi dishes to try, Māori and menu words decoded, tipping, GST and surcharges, and where to eat across both islands.
Northern Mariana Islands food guide
Chamorro and Carolinian dishes, menu words decoded, fiestas and the street market, tipping, and where to eat on Saipan, Tinian and Rota.
Palau food guide
Palauan dishes to try, menu words decoded, sashimi and bento culture, tipping and tax, and where to eat from Koror to the Rock Islands.
Papua New Guinea food guide
PNG dishes to try, Tok Pisin food words, the mumu earth oven, tipping and kina, and where to eat from Port Moresby to the Highlands.
Samoa food guide
Samoan dishes to try, menu words decoded, the umu and Sunday to'ona'i, tipping and tax, and where to eat on Upolu and Savai'i.
Solomon Islands food guide
Solomon Islands dishes to try, Pijin food words, the motu stone oven, tipping and money, and where to eat from Honiara to the lagoons.
Tonga food guide
Tongan dishes to try, menu words decoded, the Sunday 'umu, kava etiquette, tipping and tax, and where to eat across the island groups.
Vanuatu food guide
Ni-Vanuatu dishes to try, Bislama menu words, kava and nakamal etiquette, tipping, and where to eat on Efate, Santo and Tanna.
Where to eat in Oceania, city by city
Every city and island with its own section in our Oceania food guides.
- Australia food guide
- Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth Hobart Darwin
- Cook Islands food guide
- Avarua Muri Arorangi Aitutaki Atiu
- Fiji food guide
- Nadi Denarau Suva The Coral Coast The Mamanuca Islands The Yasawa Islands Savusavu
- French Polynesia food guide
- Papeete Moorea Bora Bora Huahine Raiatea and Taha'a Rangiroa The Marquesas Islands
- Guam food guide
- Tumon Hagåtña Tamuning Dededo southern Guam
- Marshall Islands food guide
- Majuro Laura Arno Ebeye The outer atolls
- Micronesia food guide
- Kolonia Pohnpei Weno Yap Kosrae
- New Caledonia food guide
- Nouméa Bourail Hienghène The Isle of Pines Lifou
- New Zealand food guide
- Auckland Wellington Rotorua Hawke's Bay Christchurch Queenstown Dunedin
- Northern Mariana Islands food guide
- Garapan Susupe and Chalan Kanoa Managaha Island Tinian Rota
- Palau food guide
- Koror Malakal Babeldaob The Rock Islands Peleliu
- Papua New Guinea food guide
- Port Moresby Lae Goroka Mount Hagen Madang Kokopo
- Samoa food guide
- Apia Upolu's south coast Lalomanu Salelologa Manase
- Solomon Islands food guide
- Honiara Gizo Munda The Marovo Lagoon Auki
- Tonga food guide
- Nuku'alofa Tongatapu Neiafu Ha'apai 'Eua
- Vanuatu food guide
- Port Vila Efate Luganville The east coast of Santo Tanna
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