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It's a regular part of Maori culture in New Zealand, and tourists can do it in places like Rotorua. They call it Hāngi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81n
by knodi123 6y ago
It's a regular part of Maori culture in New Zealand, and tourists can do it in places like Rotorua. They call it Hāngi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81ngi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81ngi
- samatman 6y agoWhile I'm quite sure this is true (that Maori boil food in hot springs), the link you've provided describes what in Hawai'i we call kalua, the centrepiece of a luau. I'm not at all surprised that the word for the pit oven is effectively the same: umu in Maori, imu in Hawai'ian.
- EdwardDiego 6y agoAnd the Hawai'ian word for chicken is the Māori word for a bunch of birds that grew up to 2m tall and was probably terrifying to run into in dense scrub. :)
- markdown 6y agoA Hangi is an earth oven, not cooking in hot springs. In Fiji, it's called a lovo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_oven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_oven