We love the food in Vanuatu! And there are lots of great options. There are many different nationalities here so we have found that most cuisines are represented here. There is a very big French population here so the French supermarkets are really good. We can buy wonderful croissants, french cheeses and pates.
The bread here is amazing! It is baked fresh every day and has no additives or preservatives in it. The French certainly know how to bake great bread.
Yummy French Bread
One of my favourite local snacks is the Nems - they are like spring rolls but have noodles and beef in them.
Local snack - Nem
At the supermarket - "Au Bon Marche Numbatu" they have a fantastic section of takeaway food, including curries, pasta, pizza, filled rolls, quiche and another of my favourites prawn cutlets, which are large prawns, crumbed and fried.
The chickens here are also really good as they do not have anything pumped into them to make them bigger or last longer.
The meat in Vanuatu is really cheap. They produce the most amazing beef and we can also buy veal which is so good.
The seafood is also really good, Lobster is quite cheap at 1500vatu a kg which is about $20.00 a kg. The currency conversion is 1000vatu = approx. $NZ12. Mum and Dad have lots of 1000vatu notes in their wallets!
Dad makes wonderful fish curries with a local fish called Basa Fish.
Lobster
There is lots of tropical fruit and different kinds of vegetables like snake beans. We buy our fruit and vegetables at the local market or, one of the girls, Noeline, who works for us brings them to us from her village. The Avocados are huge...the locals call it Vanuatu butter because the inside is so soft and delicious.
Local Tropical Fruits
Local Fruit & Vegetable Market
Huge Avocados - this one compared to a mandarin
At school we can buy are lunches...Jungle Cafe in town collects the orders every morning, makes them and delivers them for lunch time. There is a selection of hot and cold, the hot is not very healthy so Mum only lets us have one hot item a week. Mum loves that we can order our lunch because she gets sick of making lunches.
We have a great French restaurant that we go to called L'Houstalet, Millie and I tried escargot (snails) there and loved them!
They also have Flying Fox on their menu which is Bat! We love different foods but no one in our family has wanted to order this!
Escargot (Snails)
Local Bat
Another of our favourite cafes is Numbawan on the waterfront. They have the best pizzas in town, our favourite is the smoked marlin and they also have an outdoor movie screen so we go there and watch family movies in the weekend while eating pizza.
Nambawan Cafe
Out door Movie Night at Nambawan
Smoked Marlin Pizza
