So Many New Foods!!

I love food!! Both cooking and eating and it's always fun when I get the chance to try new food.

Since coming to Papua New Guinea I've been able to try so many new things.  Here in Buka I've been surprised as to how many new things I've tried.

Pumpkin Greens - I really wish this was a common thing to eat in the states, these are so good.

 

Pau(Pow) - a nut that only grows in the South Pacific. I really like these!

This is what it looks like on the tree.

After you have cracked the shell open, you eat this part.
Unlike Galip nuts, the other nut you can only find in the South Pacific, this one has a crunch to it.

Breadfruit -

Here it has both been cooked in coconut milk and fried.  Both are very good.

Cuscus/Kapul - A type of possum. 

 They char the cuscus to burn the fur off so the meat has a burnt taste.

They cook every part! I however was not about the try this part of the cuscus.

Laulau 

This is a sour fruit that I really wasn't a fan of.

Shark - Not really sure what kind it is.

This was so good!! 

Snake Bean

Taste just like green beans just a lot bigger.

Chayote (Choco) - There is the choco greens and the choco seed.  Both are very good. 

  This is the seed.  

(Still trying to figure out name) - A fruit found on Nissan Island that some friends brought us.

The middle has spike like fibers. Watch out!

So all of those have been just since coming to Buka/Bougainville and three of them where last week.

Some other new things I've tried since being in PNG are:

Tree tomatoes - The taste like a combination of a guava and a tomato.  They make really good jam!

Soursop

It's a little slimy, but really good. Oh and yes it is sour.

Crocodile - Taste like chicken with the texture of steak.

And by far the worst thing I've tried so far is:

Turtle eggs - You can read all out them here.

It is very well possible that there is more and I just don't have pictures of them. If I come across them again I will make sure to get one. 

I am looking forward to seeing what other new foods I might come across.  Be on the lookout for another post before I leave PNG of more new foods I try.