Samoa

🇦🇸American Samoa

Papaya Soup

Supoesi

Samoan supoesi is a creamy soup of ripe papaya, tapioca pearls, coconut milk, and sugar, served as a sweet dish.

🇼🇸Samoa

Pineapple Pie

Paifala

Samoan pineapple half-moon pie; pastry filled with pineapple and coconut cream; baked until golden; sweet, tangy, and creamy; often served dessert and bakery item; pineapple is grown locally in Samoa; a TasteAtlas-listed dessert; the pie that combines Samoa's tropical fruits.

🇼🇸Samoa

Pork Buns

Keke Pua'a

Samoan pork buns; dough filled with spiced pork and onions; baked or steamed; often served snack and street food; influenced by Chinese bun traditions; found at bakeries and markets across Samoa; soft, savory, and filling; a TasteAtlas-listed snack.

🇼🇸Samoa

Pounded Breadfruit Dessert

Taufolo

Taufolo is roasted breadfruit pounded with coconut caramel into a dense, sweet Samoan pudding with a smoky fruit base.

🇼🇸Samoa

Puligi

Puligi is a Samoan steamed pudding made from flour or root starch with coconut and sugar, producing a dense, tender dessert.

🇫🇯Fiji

Purini

A steamed pudding of flour or cassava with burnt sugar, cooked in a cloth or tin and served with coconut sauce.

🇳🇺Niue

Salted Beef

Povi Masima

Povi masima is beef brined or preserved with salt, then simmered until tender and used in stews, soups, or communal meals; the long cooking softens the beef and concentrates its savoury flavour.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Samilolo

Samilolo is a Samoan coconut-based sauce cooked with aromatics and seasoning, spooned over fish, roots, or other communal dishes.

🇼🇸Samoa

Samoan Cocoa

Koko Samoa

Traditional Samoan cocoa drink; made from locally grown cacao beans; beans are roasted, ground, and mixed with hot water; rich, dark, and slightly grainy; served with sugar or coconut cream; the hot beverage of choice in Samoa; drunk with panipopo; a TasteAtlas-listed drink; the cocoa that fuels Samoan mornings.

🇼🇸Samoa

Samoan Coconut Cookies

Masi Samoa

Samoan coconut cookies; flour, sugar, and coconut baked into crisp, golden rounds; often served snack and gift; found at markets and bakeries; simple, sweet, and coconutty; a TasteAtlas-listed snack; the cookie that travels well across the islands.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Samoan Poi

Poi

Samoan poi is ripe banana mashed with coconut cream into a smooth, spoonable pudding served as a cool side or dessert.

🇼🇸Samoa

Sapasui

Samoan chop suey; noodles stir-fried with meat, vegetables, ginger, and garlic; a Chinese-influenced dish tracing to laborers who came to work Apia's copra trade in the early 1900s; served at every family gathering; Samoa absorbed this import and made it its own; hearty, savory, and filling; a TasteAtlas-listed dish.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Tapioca Dessert

Pisua

Pisua is a Samoan coconut-and-starch pudding cooked until thick and smooth, served warm or cool as a communal sweet.

🇹🇴Tonga

Umu

Samoan umu is a communal above-ground earth-oven feast in which food is wrapped in leaves and cooked over heated stones.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Vaisalo

Vaisalo is a Samoan coconut-and-starch pudding or porridge cooked until soft, lightly sweet, and fragrant with fresh coconut.

🇫🇯Fiji

Vakalolo

Grated cassava mixed with coconut, ginger and sugar, wrapped in banana leaf and steamed, then covered in hot coconut caramel.

🇫🇯Fiji

Vudi Vakasoso

Cooking bananas boiled and mashed with coconut cream and sugar until they take a caramel colour.