Mike Yardley: Road-tripping NZ’s tastiest signature treats
Mike Yardley: Road-tripping NZ’s tastiest signature treats Sat, 6 Feb 2021, 11:36AM
An essential dimension to a memorable trip is the kai we eat along the way. With our travels hermetically confined to our own shores for the past 12 months, it’s staggering just how many signature treats and iconic tastes burst forth from every pocket of New Zealand. Some star specimens have cultivated such runaway fame, their folklore-like status lords over their location like a landmark on a plate. Exhibit A - Fergburger in Queenstown. But for all the whipped-up hype and passing fads that can leave you feeling impelled to buy into it through FOMO, here’s my list of New Zealand’s greatest holiday tastes and signature treats that deserve to be threaded into a road trip. By no means is this an exhaustive list – the entries I’ve included are merely a collection of my favourite holiday tastes, and where their