today we're in Queenstown, New Zealand we're so excited to be filming a bunch
of food videos in the South Island of New Zealand to show you some of the best
local places to eat
the best New Zealand food celebrates our country's prime
produce, seafood and meat this is our second video from New Zealand and we're
in Queenstown watch out for a mouth-watering Kiwi staple, a visit to
the country's most iconic pub and the best burgers in town, in this four-part
series we're travelling all over New Zealand to show you the best food from
our homeland from food gathered right from the source to unique Kiwi snacks
plus a ton of Aotearoa's breathtaking beauty you don't want to miss this series
get ready for some mouth-watering food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're
Chasing a Plate, we hope you're hungry, let's eat
now there is no denying that
Queenstown is a serious tourist town if you've not heard of Queenstown it is New
Zealand's action mecca basically it's all about action sports, bungee jumping
skiing in the winter time so snow sports it's a beautiful place and
it's all about tourists it's nothing but tourist stuff here but there are some
absolute gems as far as food goes here so we're from New Zealand so we've come
here a number of times and man we love it here, there is some good food to be found
so stick with us
one of the first things that Thomas and I hunt down whenever we're back home in
New Zealand is a pie, now when we talk about pies in New Zealand we mean savoury
pies never a sweet pie and in Queenstown the best place to grab a pie is
right behind me at Fergbaker so let's go and grab one
we've got the goods and we've brought them down to the edge of Lake Wakatipu to
have our little pie picnic so let me talk you through what we ordered so this
here is the ultimate pie in my opinion this is a mince and cheese pie which is
a real classic Kiwi filling so you've got the beautiful pastry and inside
it'll be loaded hopefully with mince beef mince in gravy and then a ton of
cheese
with the pie we also ordered another Kiwi classic and that is a
sausage roll so the sausage roll is basically ground
pork and I believe it's pork shoulder and pork belly and it's all mixed with
herbs and spices and then wrapped in pastry it's pretty simple and then a
very important component to go with our pie feast
tomato sauce
all right let's get into this pie now I
am a massive tomato sauce fiend and I can't eat a pie without tomato... ooop got
that all over my hand, without I can't eat a pie without tomato sauce so let's
get that on there, ohhh Christ all right let's get in there
Oh man that is a really good pie you can see there that beautiful minced
beef
quite a lot of beef in a gravy and then that pastry is so crispy and
buttery and flaky I love it with tomato sauce because the tomato sauce is tangy
and sweet and it cuts through the richness of the pie, I've gotta go for
another bite all right
I got some cheese in that bite I've got it all over
my face but I don't even care it's so good
the cheese is sort of stuck to the lid of the pie you can see it there there's
not a whole heap of it but it still adds a really delicious flavour quite creamy
and it's not hot the pie's just warm it's the best of temperature to enjoy a pie it's
sort of had time to sit and the flavours get mingling all right so I'm halfway
through the pie and as well as beef mince cooked in that gravy there's also
some vegetables so there's some peas I saw some carrot in there and then some
onion this is a really good pie and pies just they're such a part of Kiwi culture
as a kid when you're at school and you order school lunch I would always always
order a pie or a sausage roll which Thomas is gonna get into in a second and
it's just oh there's something about tucking into a pie it's so satisfying
let's rip into this sausage roll so look at that so it's
it's a sausage filling so think of a sausage without a skin on the outside
it's just all the filling so you've got sausage filling there in the inside but
then all that thick really buttery looking pastry wrapped around the
outside and then obviously baked that's super golden looking I'm gonna go naked
so no tomato sauce to start off and it's got a beautiful smell I can really smell
it coming out of the bag it's smells like fennel
that... whoa
that is buttery that pastry that is good
crunchy on the outside but mmm oh my god
the flavour keeps and keeps building so the pastry is really buttery but then
that filling so you can actually see the little bits of herbs in there but
the fennel flavour is really really strong so classic combo pork and fennel
oh my god
it is delicious you can tell that it's good quality sometimes with a sausage roll
you end up with sort of gristle in here and not much flavour but this tastes like
a piece of pork it's it's it's proper it's meat you know it's not just all the
offcuts that they've chucked into the cheap sausage roll
so it looks like
there's some sage and definitely some mustard seeds in there as well you can
see the little orange one and it is delicious the combination of herbs and
stuff but let's talk about this environment I mean what a place to enjoy
baked goods so we're sitting right on the beach on Lake Wakatipu and this is
sort of the focal point of Queenstown no matter where you are in
town you're only gonna be about five minutes walk from where we're sitting
now and look at that view so you get to enjoy this beautiful beach with this
beautiful view and incredible baked goods
alright so it's the next day and we've driven about 20 minutes outside of
Queenstown to Arrowtown which is a really cute
gold mining village they first found gold here in 1862 but before we talk
more about that we're here for some sticky buns locals have told us that the
sticky buns from this cafe nearby are legendary so let's go and grab one
I've got my sticky bun in hand and it smells really heavily of cinnamon all
right let's get a look at this thing oh it's quite little we're gonna have to
fight over this Thomas so basically a sticky bun is made up of a sweet dough and
then it's covered well this one is covered in I can see currants there's
some slivered almonds on the top there and then almost a caramel I think it is
and then it's quite light and almost pastry like in its appearance and there's some
cinnamon swirl in there too so these are apparently legendary so let's give em a
taste
very sweet
beautiful crunch from the almonds and the dough is almost like a
um a croissant dough or a pastry dough it's very light and flaky almost a
little bit chewy and crunchy on the outside and those currants are really
juicy I want to get a taste of this icing that's on the top it's really soft
and gooey look at that, think it's a brown sugar icing
mmm it's like a caramel it's
very buttery and not overly sweet there's a really strong cinnamon swirl
in there as well and that's really adding to the beautiful flavour of the bun
I'm gonna go for one more mouthful
a really tasty sweet treat and where we're
eating this sticky bun is actually a really special part of Arrowtown we're
in the Chinese settlement, now there was a gold rush here in 1862 when the
gold had sort of dried up the European miners left this part of the country and
went over to the west coast where there was another gold rush on that side of
the country and so the Otago provincial government invited Chinese miners who
were in Australia at the time to come down to Otago and mine gold here
and they ended up setting up this little settlement, it had a restaurant lots and
lots of little houses, you can wander through the settlement and walk
inside the huts that the people used to live in and have a look at all the old
buildings it's really neat they were here until about 1928 so it's
a really rich part of Arrowtown's history
now we're jumping back in the car and
we're going to a pub but it's an incredibly special pub and to get there
we get to go over an incredibly special road and we're actually with my parents
look there's Sheena with my parents so we're all traveling as a group and we're
heading over one of the most amazing mountain passes in New Zealand to get to
the pub
so we're now on top of the Crown Range still heading for the pub but we
thought we'd stop at the top because the view is spectacular so it's 1076
meters so not overly high but nothing in New Zealand is that high but it's a very
severe country so we're quite close to the sea here but we're on top of this
mountain pass so things just shoot up straight out of the ocean so in winter
time this would all be snow all around us but at the moment it's just tussock and
that is Queenstown right down there in that little valley
as you know we always show you the best local food in the cities that we visit
but because we're now home and we're filming a New Zealand series what's
extra cool is that we get to show you some of our favorite spots and this
place behind me is definitely one of our favorite spots
we're at the Cardrona Hotel it's been around 1863 and it is so iconic, it's
rumoured to be one of the most photographed buildings in New Zealand so
let's go and get a beer
this is an incredibly traditional pub it's all wood it's got the most
beautiful smell in this pub because they have huge open fires so in the wintertime
they're raging, there's fires outside as well but in the summertime it's beautiful as
well but you've got to get a Gold Ale Speights when you're here this is the beer
of this region it's a delicious ale but it's not so much about the beer this pub
it's about the place it's just the most beautiful environment this is a tiny
little hamlet between Queenstown and Wanaka so we've driven maybe about
40 minutes out of Queenstown to get here and I love this little place but it's
the perfect stop off for a cold beer
delicious
we are now back in Queenstown and we're making our way to probably the most
famous place actually not probably definitely the most famous place here in
Queenstown it's called Fergburger they did burgers it's been around for
years everyone knows this place it's famous for a reason these burgers are
incredible there's gonna be a huge queue so let's go join the massive lines and
get some burgers
got the goods so we waited about half an hour not a major wait the line
moves real quick and we're gonna take these down to the lake to eat them
I've got my burger in hand I ordered a Little Lamby which is a lamb burger and Thomas
ordered a Fergburger and we also got some fries now I am usually a classic
beef and cheese girl but I thought I would order the lamb burger because it's
something different so let me just unwrap this a little and show you what
this burger is made up of so we've just got basic bun with sesame on top we've
got a minced lamb patty there's tomato relish
there's also lambs best friend which is mint jelly smeared on there there's red
onion, there's tomato and there's lettuce and I think there might be oh yep
aioli on the bottom it looks real good lamb is one of New Zealand's most famous
foods you come to New Zealand you eat lamb so it'll be interesting to see what
this burger tastes like all right let's go
it's really really good
what I love about Fergburgers are that
they're just honest tasty burgers they're really homestyle there's nothing fancy
about them but they're always just satisfying and full of flavour so the
lamb is really savoury oops lost a bit of onion it's really good, the strong
flavour I got in that mouthful was of the tomato relish
a little bit vinegary a little bit sweet I've gotta go for another bite
let's try and
get more of that lamb
that mint jelly works really well it's really fresh and lively, the bun is
super soft and the red onion adds a bit of zing and really fresh lettuce and
tomato
I have gone for the classic Fergburger so this is basically a
cheeseburger it's just a beef patty cheese there, whole lot of tomato relish
looks like it's got a lot of onions in it
we've got tomatoes we've got some fresh red onion my favourite burger ingredient
nice piece of lettuce and a whole lot of mayo under there so a really simple
cheeseburger
hmm oh man I'm covered
ohhh yes this is so good now this isn't the first time we've had
these we've had them before and what I love about them is their homemade feel
and I think that's why it's got such a cult following and why you get those
massive queues up the street because it's just like having a classic homemade
burger and it is brilliant that patty is perfectly salted so and and seasoned I
mean so perfectly salted and it's got a good kick of pepper in it and the crunch
red onion like I said my favorite burger ingredient that's really crispy and
tangy but I just I love this burger and when you get to sit here so this is
exactly where we started this video so we've sort of gone full circle we've come back
to the beach and where we started was Fergbaker and so Fergburger is right
next door so same company but it all started with the burgers everything else
they do ice cream now or gelato and the bakery that all came after the
burgers they started this brand of Ferg and they're just delicious they're so
classic and they do all sorts of unique ones so you can get lots of Kiwi ingredients so blue
cod that's a type of fish that's their fish burger or lamb like Sheena had there is
a venison one so a deer burger so you can try lots of unique New Zealand
ingredients but for me classic burger wins every time and that is a delicious
burger
those burgers really hit the spot
this is a good day or a couple of days
of eating here in Queenstown and we reckon we've shown you some of the prime
eating places here in Queenstown because there's a limited selection of
incredible food here I mean this place like we said at the start is all about
tourists but it's all about tourists doing action sports so jumping off
mountains and bridges and whatnot it's not so much about the eating but what
we've shown you is some of the most incredible food here in Queenstown and
the surrounding area there are a couple of spots that we ate at which we did not
film in their entirety because we're with our family but Amisfield winery
and Rata are also amazing places to eat more sort of fine-dining style and
really good meals
we've driven a few kilometres down the road from the pub to show you one of
Cardona's quirkiest attractions this here is Cardrona's famous bra fence
otherwise known as Bradrona and the story goes that in the 1990s four bras
mysteriously appeared on this fence and then some dodgy person started stealing
the bras and then as they disappeared the next day people would replenish the
fence with more bras and so it's become this huge tradition for people to
leave their bras I don't have a bra to spare to add to the fence because we
travel so light but you can donate a few bucks to charity to breast cancer
research in New Zealand so I'm going to add a couple of bucks to that charity
box instead