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without ever seeing an airport Over the centuries, the world’s best flavours have deviated towards New Zealand and flourished on our shores.
FRENCH GASTRONOMY ASIAN EXCELLENCE If your favourite dreams are full of French camembert and crème brûlée, turn these fantasies into a reality in Akaroa: New Zealand’s only French-founded town. This sleepy, oceanside nook has French street signs and arguably the best lemon crepes this side of the equator. The Little Bistro serves a mean ratatouille (enough to raise more than one French eyebrow) and the Sweet As Bakery, albeit Kiwi in name, is a French-inspired bakery renowned for its fresh bread and croissants.
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We all know Asian food is superior in New Zealand, notably because as relatively close ‘neighbours’ (by our standards anyway) Asian flavour has flooded into Aotearoa by osmosis. Tuck into traditional dishes at Wellington’s Taste of Home, a Chinese street-food eatery with home-made noodles stretched on site. Wellington is overflowing with authentic Asian eateries; from hawker food to sushi, a myriad of South East Asian flavours and a Qilin Tea House, your every mealtime could be Asian inspired.
ABOVE: Akaroa Butchery © akaroa.com TOP: Bhavana Bar, Wellington © Nicola Edmonds
