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[QUOTE="Michelle, post: 264527, member: 16598"]
If you come to New Zealand, try a hangi. Or an umu in the Pacific Islands - food cooked underground.
One thing to make sure of though, is that the food is defrosted. A couple of kids who lived near my parents decided to cook a hangi as their parents had gone down the road for a while. The kids grabbed a frozen chicken, went under the house, lit the fire & the rest is history. Really the kids were too young to be left alone, but I think the parents had just gone out for a few minutes to check on the local school (they were the caretakers).
No one was injured thankfully, but I bet the kids were put off hangis for a while lol.

When my sister/brother-in-law does a hangi (not often), they parcel up individual meals, with beef, chicken or pork. My sister's first introduction to a hangi (at her mother-in-law's tangi/funeral) was her having to cook the food as the guys couldn't get the hangi lit properly, so everything was done in pans in the end.

Hangi & umu food is not common here, more for special occasions and tourists. There is a difference in the way it's cooked, but I'm not sure of what.
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