Must Eats In The South

When visiting New Zealand there are five foods “you’ve just got to try” according to Jaunted’s Eric Rosen. “On our own recent long visit to the South Island, we discovered more and more chefs are putting New Zealand’s unique foodstuffs on display in creative (and delicious) ways.” On his list Rosen includes: green-lip mussels, whitebait, tahr, hot-smoked salmon and Central Otago cherries. “Green-lip mussels [are] enormous molluscs [which] grow all over New Zealand, though the most famous ones come from the pristine waterways of the Marlborough Sounds. We saw one that was a full five inches long — and their meat is especially soft and sweet.”