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🇫🇯Fiji

Fiji Asparagus

Duruka

The unopened flower of a wild cane, peeled from its sheath and cooked in coconut milk — available for only a few weeks a year.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Hibiscus spinach

Bele

Hibiscus spinach (Abelmoschus manihot) is a tender, slightly mucilaginous Pacific leafy green known as bele, aibika, pele, and island cabbage, usually cooked with coconut milk or added to soups and stews.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Kaukau

Sweet potato — the everyday starch of the PNG Highlands, baked, boiled, or roasted, then mashed with coconut milk, garlic, and ginger; eaten at almost every meal.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Laplap

Tanna Laplap

Laplap is Vanuatu's grated root-crop or breadfruit mixture, combined with coconut and ordinary meat, fish, or vegetables, wrapped in leaves and baked until dense and tender.

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

Masimasi

Slippery cabbage (aibika) with mashed ngali nut, wrapped in banana leaves and baked in a motu (earth oven); a traditional vegetarian dish combining the nutritious green with the rich, almond-like ngali nut; a specialty of the Kastom Gaden tradition.

🇸🇧Western Solomon Islands (Western / Choiseul / Isabel), Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands Seaweed

Solomon Islands seaweed is fresh edible marine algae served raw or lightly dressed with coconut, lime, or chilli as a crisp vegetable side.

🇸🇧Central Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal / Malaita / Makira), Solomon Islands

Venda-venda

Venda-venda is a Solomon Islands leafy vegetable preparation, cooked with coconut and aromatics until soft and served alongside fish or roots.