Nanuku Put Fiji on a Plate – Fijitime

On Nanuku Auberge Resort’s Fijian Food Safari on Fiji’s Pacific Coast, you’re chauffeured in air-conditioned comfort to bustling Navua Market – some 15 minutes away on the multi-award winning resort – with a friendly buddy in tow, where farm vendors from the island’s interior sell colourful and exotic island produce for a few dollars a pop.

The buzzing local market becomes a place for cultural immersion and learning, where visitors to Fiji can encounter a number of tropical fruit and vegetables for the very first time: things like bread fruit (a thick, spongy ball-shaped fruit whose texture closely resembles bread once cooked), ota (wild-harvested fiddle fern which add a delicious crunch to salads), and nama (the favour-packed sea grapes which burst in your mouth releasing a delicious sea salty goodness that has led some to christening it ‘vegan caviar’) to name a few.