Only In New Zealand: Eat This If You Dare

May 27, 2010 / Travel / 5 comments

Normally a small pleasant town with a population in the low thousands, Hokitika is being transformed every March by it’s annual Wilde Food Festival. This year festival was celebrating its 21st anniversary. This is a real gastronomic festival, or maybe it is better to say that this type of food is only for those with strong stomach. The Hokitika Wildfoods Festival is a celebration of the weird and wonderful in the world of food – with many interesting snacks that are unique to New Zealand’s West Coast region. To be honest, the idea of eating huh grubs and mountain oysters is something what I would very gladly pass. But as I got to learn, there on the food festival I learned that these people are willingly trying all of these delicatessen. I would be the only one not interested in giving a chance to these dishes . Everyone here are so happily chewing grasshoppers, huh grubs, and worm sushi, followed by shots of moonshine and Gorse Flower wine. I am not sure if this is exactly my cup of tea, but this is a respect given to the gastronomical gods.

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new zealander 4 life

huh grubs are actully quite nice, they taste like peanut butter
Milly

Why does the URL say only-in-AUSTRALIA-eat-this-if-you-dare??
I hate to be the one to break it to you but Australia and New Zealand are different countries. In fact they are different islands. Shocking, I know.
Dayna

I believe it is HUHU grubs, not HUH grubs. Just so you are caught up on your New Zealand delicacies. But yes, peanut butter, not that I’ve tried them. But yes, we do eat some weird food down in Hokitika, we even made a movie that involves the Wild Food Festival. And no, we are not part of Australia, but I’m sure they do eat some of these things too!
Palmap

Yep, HUHU not HUH and in Australia they eat a similar bug called a witchety grub or witjuti grub. Same great flavour. Damm, that leg of ?? looks good. I’m off to lunch.
Ex Kiwi
mackdaddy301

The Wild food festival is weird and wonderful, but the amount of alcohol available does help when attempting some the more “exotic” delicacies.

Just out of curiosity…. was this article translated to English from Japanese, or is the person who wrote it American, i.e. have a limited grasp of English vocabulary/writing?!?