Watch me try some incredibly unique and totally delicious New Zealand food! Featuring the lovely @haztrology! Let me know in the comments what other Kiwi treats you want to see me try 🍽
The thing to remember about "Kiwi ingenuity" is, until the late 70's, NZ was SOOO cut off from the rest of the world. I remember my cousin going to Australia in the early 70's on a ship! Only the very rich could afford to fly. So we had to "make do" with what we had. And what farmers had a lot of was #8 fencing wire. Nobody I know tried to eat it, but it was used for every other thing under the sun.
I remember when I was younger, I thought I was a Genius when mixing Just Juice with lemonade believing that I was the first one to do so. Now that I am older, I understand the Kiwi staple.
Cheap version tinfoil chicken drum pork chop potatoe kumara pumpkin cabbage stuffing ball bake in oven side of raw fish and creamed paua sorted 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love ya vids man keep it up
Like every other kid I always turned my nose up at the asparagus rolls. I hadn't seen them for many years until one day as an adult I was at a function where they were being served, and I figured that I may as well give one a try. Wew. I couldn't believe it, I found them to be absolutely delicious. I was circling around them like a vulture waiting to devour all the ones that would be leftover when there inevitably wasn't enough adults to eat them all. So yeah, definitely an adult thing.
When I was at school, we used to eat the top pastry of the pie, then use potato chips (crisps) to scoop out the filling - then if you had some potato chips left fill the empty pie case with the chippies, fold up the pastry and eat (I guess like a chippy sandwich of sorts). I remember seeing an episode of Mary Berry and her and a friend made Asparagus rolls which was apparently a very popular hors d'oeuvres in the 50's and 60's.
@@itscurlsbaby Awesome, you still might not be into it but you never know! Ours are just plain, white bread, butter and Golden Sun asparagus ( if you can get it that brand ) - 2 big spears or 3 skinny - drain really well so the bread doesn't go soggy. No salt or pepper as the flavour from the cans juice is enough.
Super favorite from an older era: Vogel's with vegemite (I know) on top, then tasty cheese on top of that. Cook under the grill. It is something special...
Marmite and lettuce sammies, marmite and chip sammies, white bait sammies, mouse traps, sully lun buns ect. also you gotta try the local Maori food like a hangi and boil up kai moana and steam pud. God I miss Aotearoa
Where are you? In Melbourne Australia the kiwis go hard on Facebook selling hangis, boilups, steam puddings and island food like chop suet etc, it’s like being back home almost.
Kiwis do simplicity in an aggressive way lol. Personally i dislike just juice bubbles premixed. I far prefer to mix it myself coz its too watery in the bottle. For those that are not aware the reference to "always blow on the pie" comes from a show we have here called Police 10-7. Some officers were searching an area for a suspect and one officer found him walking down a street but was by himself with a camera operator so to buy time until backup arrived he asked where the man was walking to. Response was to the gas station. Cop asked why he was going to the gas station at 3 am and he said to get a pie. Cop replied that it seemed odd to walk to the gas station at 3am to get a pie and said you know what they say about pies at gas stations after midnight? Guy says no, what? Cop didnt have anything prepared so thinking quickly says "you must always blow on the pie. It would have been sitting in the pie warmer for hours and by this time would almost be thermonuclear." Backup then arrived and guy was arrested. Until the cop said that no one had ever said it. The clip was shared around on facebook and people were taking the piss out of the cop. Its now become such a classic long-running joke that many people now dont remember where it came from.
Jimmy's mince/mince and cheese pies are actually made using mutton mince rather than beef. Check the ingredients next time you eat one. That's the difference right there.
Another way we used to eat the pie is to take the lid off and put tomato sauce on the filling then use Bluebird Ready Salted Chips to scoop the filling out like a dip then eat the pastry last.
I make boilups in Australia with watercress I grow at home in an old kids paddling pool, it’s mean almost as good as back home, but you can’t beat the big bunches of fresh watercress from streams back home.
Salute to our gorgeous Ranga showing you the ropes bro🤣 trust him with your life ❤ could have put that pie in between bread aye bro😂 those advanced techniques 😂
Kia ora thank you so much what a lovely thing to say! Marmite will be featuring in the very near future, that’s a promise! Have a great night really appreciate your comment
When I was younger we used to have cinnamon toast. Just butter up your bread sprinkle a bit of cinnamon and sugar on top then grill it in the oven I loved it.
You need to try a pie from Maketu, they really are the best pies in NZ! You should also try a classic chip butty, it’s hot chips (from a fish n chip shop usually) on buttered white bread and tomato sauce. Essentially a hot chip sandwich 😁👍🏼
Secret to making tasty chips. Chefade (can use a pot) agora or moon or any white fleshed potatoe that's not as moist as the yellow or those other white ones that go mushy when deep fried. Never remove the skin as most people don't realise that's where the flavour is. Chefade is used as it makes the exposed flesh crunchy. I find oil doesn't do that the chips tend to go soggy somewhat.
Yay, good to see you try the cheese roll. Many a sports team mum has had to make dozens of them to fundraise here in the south of the South Island. You find them in most Southland/Otago cafes as well. Your next taste tested needs to be the pie taste test: pepper steak, butter chicken, mince and cheese, seafood, chicken &cranberry...
And what a delicious cheese roll it was! Jealous of not growing up in the South Island, those fundraisers sound cool Mia! Thank you for those pie suggestions too, that’s a video I am very very very much looking forward to making! Have a lovely night
I would encourage buying some hot chips and a mince and cheese pie. Pop the lid off and use the chips to scoop out the mince and eat them. So so soooooo good!
After watching this, our high national obesity rates are making much more sense to me now lol. 80% of our precious childhood foods are basically just starchy white bread wrapped around, well anything we can find really😅. Still, wouldn't have it any other way!
Didn't used to matter as kids were always running around the neighborhood till the street lights came on. It's only now they're glued to screens 24/7 it's an issue
Try a salt and vinegar sandwich, best way to do it is get the multipack of chips and each individual bag is the right amount for one sandwich, but you do need to flatten the sandwich before eating to help avoid having the chips stab your mouth
The cheese roll has been made wrong. You use evaporated milk from the can lots of cheese and maggi onion soup mix. When you think you have enough cheese you probably need more. Consistency needs to be thick and not runny. Yes I am from down south
Have you tried Cheese on Toast? Take some bread, spread on some marmite then add some sliced cheese on top and put under the grill in the oven until the cheese is melted and enjoy.
IMO the best pies in the country are in Blenheim at Burleigh Gourmet Pies. All their flavours are good but the steak, mushroom and truffle cheese are out of this world delicious. 2nd best would be Fairlie Bakehouse roast pork, apple sauce pie with a huge piece of crackling on top. Best in Wellington would be Arobake steak and cheese. The problem is once you try these you won't want to go back to Big Ben, Irvines or pretty much any dairy pie. The only exception would be Jimmy's pies but they are mostly only down south.
Curls good mate is as kiwi az!! Curls has slotted right into NZ life and is doing a pretty good sell on godzone country. It has adopted so many aussie things ( best of both worlds) and made them their own. Like Bunnings sausage sizzle is now also as kiwi az!! Next thing you know someone will be adamant they happened there first !!!
I had never liked asparagus (Canned or boiled) until I tried the Roman (as in the Empire) method of cooking it. You don't put it in water and boil it. You put it directly into boiling water and count to 25 then drain and eat. It entirely changed the flavour for me and I will eat it happily IF and ONLY IF, it is cooked that way. Try it, it should be crunchy, like a slightly soggy lettuce leaf.
Born and raised in Invercargill but live in Auckland. After watching this, I’ve had to buy some evaporated milk, onion soup mix, cheese, mustard powder and 2 loaves of white sandwich bread. An hour later I’ve got 44 rolls of delicious southern sushi. Later realised I made the noob mistake of using Edam cheese instead of Tasty 🤦♂️
Yes I get the seafood soup mix for my dip everytime a pie sandwich is a kiwi classic raro is kiwi classic and what must you do to the pie oh that cops never going to hear the end of that lol but most kiwis always go bakery over dairy pies specific local bakery at that too
