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Indigenous Cuisine for your Corporate Event
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Ancient Ambience: Gala Events
Our forest village is filled with ambience, vibe and magic – spine tingling stuff. Mother Nature and ancestors are responsible for most of the magic. Our amazing people deliver the rest. We promise bold, genuine encounters with the culture, the people and the land. Massive bonfires within a mystical forest setting and award-winning cultural performers combine with our indigenously-inspired cuisine to create an unforgettably New Zealand cocktail or gala dinner event. Dinner options include our traditional hangi meal, or alternative indigenously-inspired menus.
Magical settings demand magical menus – and of course while your wish is our command, we love nothing more than to celebrate our Maori culture through inspired menus. Click here to view a PDF of Tamaki Maori Village Indigenous Cuisine.
Cocktails & Canapés
Our ancestors had their delicacies – herbs, plants, fish, shell fish, birds. They only ever took what they needed and that means those favourites remain on hand to their descendants. Centuries on, awesome Rotorua chefs – including Millennium Hotel Rotorua executive chef, Chris Bell and Rotorua based NZ Innovative Chef of the Year, Charles Royal, create delectable canapés which are inspired and infused with the traditional Maori flavours and ingredients. We are proud to feature these taste sensations within our menus and believe our ancestors would be pretty impressed too! Our cocktails and canapés are the perfect complement to an evening of Maori cultural storytelling and performance. Click here to view the Kai Iti Tamaki Canape Menu.
Traditionally-Inspired Banquet
As the ideal accompaniment to your cultural experience and as an alternative to our traditional hangi feast, these same chefs have taken indigenous cuisine to new heights. Soups enriched by traditional herbs, Maori breads served with traditionally inspired relishes and main courses with indigenous origins or inspiration – wild pork, salmon, lamb, crayfish – the results are magic.
Hangi Feast
We’ve been cooking this way for centuries. Within an earthen pit, the hottest of rocks are placed, food set on top of these and the hole refilled with soil. The food steams for up to four hours beneath the ground. The result is a healthy and steamed meal – with a slightly smoky flavour. In ancient times, it would have been wild birds, and quite different meats and traditional vegetables that found their way in to the hangi. Today we use chicken, lamb, beef, pork and vegetables, including kumara (sweet potato), potatoes and carrots. We also serve accompanying seafood and salad as well as dessert. Choose cultural cuisine from the best, when booking catering for your next Rotorua or Christchurch corporate event.
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