- Sea urchin!
- Are you excited?
- I love sea urchin.
- Really? - Yes.
- I just, I wanna demolish this.
- A moment on the lips.
- 10 years of the hips.
- Mmmm!
- Hello today, we're gonna be trying Maori snacks.
- Kia ora.
- Oh. - Mm-hmm.
- Yum. - I love them.
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(speaking in Maori)
- I don't mind people eating Maori food.
Taking Maori land, well that's another Korero
and another video.
But um... (laughing)
To be able to share the Kai that we have,
and our people have thrived on.
It's cool. It's cool to share with the world.
- We have a new person.
- Person?
- Rizcel. Hello Rizcel. - Hi everyone.
- I'm just excited to taste whatever is put in front of me.
- Especially like with first nations mobs
all over the world, like I,
I think that's the thing that always fascinates me the most,
like the similarities, differences.
- Are you excited?
- Yeah. I'm hungry.
- Yeah?
- When you say doughnut in United States of America,
or anywhere else you would think like a circle
that Homer Simpson eats, but in New Zealand,
they're in a bun. (laughs)
You can find us at every bakery across the whole country
from the top to the bottom.
- Whoa.
- I just, I wanna demolish this.
- Well, hot girl summer is gonna be, you know,
is gonna be ambushed by this.
A moment on the lips. - 10 years of the hips.
I'll take the lifetime on the hips for this.
- Oh
- That is delicious.
- This is nice.
- Is this like huge finger bun vibes?
- I'm trying to think what a finger bun is.
- It's like icing on the top.
- Oh just icing and nothing inside?
(dramatic pause) - Mm-hmm
- Oh, Tom, can't take you anywhere.
- Bro, you just scoop it up with your finger cuzzy and then,
finish it off. All good my bro.
- You know, a lot of like Western food is like
sickeningly sweet? This isn't that.
- No, it's not sweet. - No.
- It's better than crispy cremes.
A hundred percent, not even lying.
- This is 100% donut for me, and it's great.
- [Man] Next up we have Abalone.
- It's correctly said paua.
- Paua? - Yeah.
- What's a, what's a Abalone?
Yeah a paua.
I can't say I've had any other kind of meat
that's had the same texture as a paua.
It's like a Dunlop tire, like a Dunlop tire.
Eating a tire I reckon is probably the comparison
without the rubbery taste.
- Oh it's it's creamy, fish stuff, right?
- With onions ground down green vegetables or green herbs.
- Oh - Mm
- Mm. - That's so good.
- Yeah. When that spoon hits the, hits the palette,
and you start to realize, wow, I wish I was Maori.
Cause I want to eat paua every day.
- Kind of has mince texture.
Am I wrong by saying that
- It's chewy. - Mm
- It's like really creamy, like really nice creamy.
- Very textury.
- I haven't had a dish like this.
- Yeah I've never had one like this before.
- But the taste, just is, there's something about it.
- Fantastic. Delicious.
What else can you say?
- I know we have something similar
in the Torres Strait to this,
with the raw fish and the coconut cream.
Anything with coconut cream is, is gold, I think.
- Like the cuzzy Lulu said, you know,
they've got it in the Torres Strait.
It's definitely a dish that's well
traveled, especially around the Pacific rim, but,
in Aotearoa, they're very particular about their raw fish,
and the main part that you need to think about
when making a raw fish is the seasoning.
You can get the seasoning right, your way.
- Do you eat raw fish?
- Yeah no, I have sushi, but that's about as far as I go.
- Let's go for it.
(chewing)
- Yeah. Yum
- Remind me of coleslaw, not what I expected as well
- What did you expect? - Much more of a stronger,
like seafood flavor if that makes sense,
more of a fishier sort of flavor,
and I don't think it's that at all.
- It's almost like a fresh salad thing.
I don't know,
there's something just about having hot food that I love.
Like I just love having hot food.
I'm not saying this is bad, but like hot food is just nice.
- This is not hot food. This is cold.
- I know, that's why I'm saying like,
if this was heated up, it could be quite good, potentially.
- Yeah, it would be called cooked fish if it was hot.
(laughs)
- It's very light,
so I feel like if you wanna like a light meal,
this would be perfect for that.
- I reckon this would be pretty healthy.
- I was gonna say, this seems pretty healthy too, so.
- I know there's some like pretty buzzwords
that they have nowadays, like vegans
and vegetarians and pescatarians and equestrarians,
I don't know what that is but,
our ancestors were already kind of on that wave,
eating from plants, eating from insects if you will.
Eating from birds, eating from fish.
- Whoa. - Whoa, Wow.
- Is that butter? Is that a (gags)
- Oh yum!
- This is legit carboside right now.
- Bread again is a universal thing.
And Maori have adapted bread,
and added our own flavor if you will,
and that flavor is a lot of butter
by the looks of things.
Man, that's a lot of butter, actually.
Give the cuzzy a high cholesterol.
What's going on there?
- Fried bread.
Right? Just fried bread.
So fried bread. - Fried bread.
- Maori thing. Pretty cool.
- Probably bad for my cholesterol. Right?
- Probably, but we can't be certain.
- Can't be certain. Probably
- Yeah, there is room for doubt.
- Extra butter. - Mmm
- Mm-Hmm - Yum
- Oh that's so good.
- Yeah.
- I'm not gonna lie, I love my gym.
I love eating healthy, but damn,
like this is just like Mm-Hmm.
- This with like jam or honey, would just be like,
- Oh honey. - Heaven sent.
- I wonder if you could have this with Nutella.
- I think you could, well,
you could have this with whatever.
- Even Vegemite. - Oh!
- [Tom] I wonder what they would think of that.
- Maori's? - [Tom] Yeah.
- Oh I didn't think of that. - They would be like,
don't insult our food!
- The whole video, they're like, "you are trash".
(both laugh)
- You can actually have it with anything and everything.
And I can guarantee you this now that
Maori's have tried anything and everything
with the fried bread.
- It's thick, but it's a light, it's bready and yummy.
- This is something I would eat with the other dishes,
and dip it in the dishes.
- [Tom] Cool, I think that's heaps for that one.
- We're not done with this Tom.
(laughs)
- So next we're trying Karengo,
and it's a seaweed stew dish
with meat, which I think is pork.
- Unless you were like an Iwi,
or a tribe that lived close to the coast,
you wouldn't like normally have this on a regular basis.
But if you were like living on the coast,
you definitely have this as part of your diet.
- Oh, it smells good.
Alright?
- I'm gonna eat this seaweed.
- That's, that's, that seaweed is like,
feels like you've just picked that out of the sea.
- Taste like seaweed.
How's the meat?
- Strong Porky, salty,
like texture to it.
- I wanna eat this with rice and some steam boiled potatoes.
- If I was to say rank some of the foods,
this probably wouldn't be one of my favorites.
- Right
- The meat though is like super pink and like peeling off.
It's just like really nice meat
- Tender - Yeah
We have sea urchin.
Sea urchin and sea urchin.
- Sea urchin!
- Are you excited? - I love sea urchin!
- Really? - Yes.
This stuff is expensive.
- Really? Oh (cash register ding)
- It must be expensive I'm guessing in Australia.
Kina in New Zealand's pretty accessible.
Some places in New Zealand,
you could probably just walk out the ocean, knee deep,
bend over and pick you a couple out.
- I mean, this is just like, so outta my comfort zone,
but that's what we're here for.
- Right, absolutely - You know what I mean?
Like we're here to try new food.
- Some people are like apprehensive at first,
because the kina itself is like a weird alien looking
kind of creature.
Some people have some after effects from eating kina.
- Have you had it before? - Yeah,
I've had it heaps of times. - Oh, okay.
- I've never tried it with lemon.
- Alright, here we go.
- Alright 3, 2, 1.
(cutlery clangs)
- That's super fishy. - Oh
- I love it.
- That's like an oyster times 10.
- I love it.
(chewing)
- I mean.
(laughs)
- The bro Will's reaction is really common.
You know, sometimes there's a lot of sodium inside the kina,
and sometimes there's a bit too much for Whanau up there,
but the sister Rizcel, you seem to enjoy it, so yeah.
It's one of those things,
like you you are either gonna like it
or you're not gonna like it.
- Oh, hope I'm not getting like any allergies now.
I just had like a Twitch in my foot.
It's fine. Like now I'm like, oh, that's cool.
I tried, is it Kina?
I tried Kina. It's fine.
- But it's kind of like
- Be nice with a glass of wine actually.
- Ah, - Do you have any wine?
(laughs) No? No wine?
- Not too bad. Pretty, pretty good.
Very fishing obviously.
Cause it's from the ocean.
- Oh, I love it.
- That was a lot of fun.
I think that food was really, really good.
Like there was nothing that wasn't good.
- I'm so full.
- There was nothing that we had that was put in front of us
that was like, no. - I'm not even gonna go there.
- It's really good to hear the good response that they had
eating traditional Maori and New Zealand kai,
Yeah nah, pretty cool.
Good on them. That was mean
- You don't have to go to New Zealand to try it.
You can try it here.
- No, go Cathy Kai.
Go to Cathy's Kai in Woodpark,
and you can try all of this stuff.
- Yep. - And tell 'em we sent ya.
That won't do anything, but just say it anyways.
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