MEALS

When you are in New Zealand and look for places to eat, you can go to tea shops. Tea shops usually serve lunch, cakes, buns, coffee, and tea. In smaller towns, some serve all three meal. In cities, look for take-away shops or for regular sit-down meals. They offer meat pies, sausages rolls, curry rolls, sandwiches, cakes, coffee and tea.

However, in the countryside, the restaurants are few and far between. In the countryside most serve only fish and chips, a few meat dishes and cakes. Or you can try pubs. They are usually good place to eat, serving both hot and cold food. Pubs are open 11am to 11pm Monday through Saturday. They are closed on Sunday. Note that ‘entrée” doesn’t mean main course. It means a small serving of a hot dish before the main course.

Most hotel bars are open from 11am to 10pm. Bottles of liquor can be bought only at the bottle department of pubs or at bottle stores. There are also wine shops which sell only wine.
Licensed restaurants can serve drinks only with meals. Some fish and chips shops sell shark, often called “flake” or “lemon fish”.

When you are in New Zealand, try :
Tamarillo (sometimes called tree tomatoes), an egg-shaped red or yellow fruit eaten as a fruit or served as a vegetable.
Kumara, a kind a yam, served roasted as an accompaniment to roast meat
Babaco, a yellow fruit that tastes like a banana and looks like a papaya
Feijoa, a round fruit, somewhat like a guava

For a typical New Zealand dessert , try :
Pavlova, a dessert od meringue and whipped cream with passion fruit or kiwi fruit
Dundee cake which is much like fruitcake

In all eating places of all types, look for meat pies and try them if there is a sign saying homemade. At tea time, eat scones and pikelets, pancakes served cold with butter and jam or whipped cream. Enjoy your meals!

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