 Hey, welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. I could not resist being outside on another beautiful day here in Wellington and have a fun topic to talk about today. I was thinking about all these topics. You guys have sent in so many great topics, which I will be doing. But today, I just felt like talking about foods in New Zealand that I think are better than how they're made or produced or grown in the USA. Here we go. So I've spent some time thinking about this and I've come up with quite a list. It looks like I have 12 items that I want to talk about today. And if you don't know me, we are a family that have moved to New Zealand from the US and have been here for about six years. And so if you don't know, check out my channel. I talk all about the differences between New Zealand and the US. And today we're going to talk about food. Now, I need to put a disclaimer on here. American food is amazing. American variety of food is amazing. Nobody's going to beat America on a burger on pizza, whether it's New York style, deep dish Chicago style, so many amazing sandwiches, Philly cheats, steak, so many amazing foods in the US. Yeah, the best day of the chance really compared to a lot of those. But there are some foods in New Zealand that I think are really good. And so in my opinion, better than they are in the US, but again, that's just my opinion and my limited experience even with the US food because depending on where you live, you have completely different foods at cultures, probably four major different areas of the US. I have different food at different cultures. And so I'm just talking about my experience, my thoughts on some of the food that I really, really like here in New Zealand. So if you're traveling here, moving here, definitely check these things out. This is what you have to look forward to. Okay, these are in no particular order, but number one that I want to talk about chocolate. Can we talk about chocolate? So the chocolate in New Zealand is so good. The Whitaker's chocolate being the best in my opinion. Cadbury also very good. Just all the chocolate is good. I don't know what Hershey's is doing, but it has nothing. I'll put my chocolate here. So I don't know. I think I've mentioned this in another video, but like every time I go to the US, I bring tons and tons of chocolate to all my friends and family. And last time I was there, I didn't really because being in the in the US for like so many weeks at a time, I got really craving the chocolate here. And so I ate a lot of it. I gave some of it out, but I have like the chocolate you guys. So good. And they don't always have the same combinations of chocolate. New Zealand has figured out chocolate and pineapple boy together. I'm sure there's products in the US that chocolate and pineapple but chocolate and pineapple amazing. Number two, let's talk about scone. New Zealand does scones better. Do they do? They have savory. They have sweet. They're savory you guys. Cheese scones, cheese and onion scones, date scones with like they have like this GM and cream. You toast them so good. So scones aren't as big of a thing in the US in general like they have them like they have probably everything. But New Zealand wins on the scones and they're everywhere and they're freshly made every day and they are so good. Number three, I love a roast and it's one of the staples that I would make in the US. But the way that they do a roast in New Zealand is a little bit different than in the US and I really like it here. A couple of things that are different. So typically in a roast, you're either for the meat, you're either going to have the beef, the pork or chickens. And then they always have multiple vegetables, which I think is a very British thing where they have multiple vegetables at a meal and I love that. So like, you know, because you don't like every vegetable. But then you get to pick the vegetable that you want or you have a little bit of all of it, love it. And then the way they do potatoes. Americans are big mashed potato eaters here. Not as much roast potatoes all the time. So I love the roast potatoes. Roast potatoes was the gravy. So good. And then one time, so I had been here probably a total of almost four years before I ordered a roast at a place and they said, would you like a Yorkshire pudding? And I was like, sure, I like pudding throw it on. But what they threw on was like this bread, a piece of like hollowed out bread. And you're like, they put like gravy in it. And I was like, what? I thought I was getting a dessert, but no Yorkshire pudding is bread. And it's amazing. And I've been making them and I have on that all of my roasts. So I'll put a picture of it up here and you'll see it. But like the Yorkshire pudding is so good. And so you have all these vegetables, meat, roasted potatoes, gravy and a Yorkshire pudding. I think that New Zealand wins in the roast is probably my number one favorite food here in New Zealand. Number four, let's talk about sweet potatoes and kumara. So in New Zealand, their sweet potato is called kumara and it comes in three different colors. If you will, there's red, like an orange and then there's like a white, yellow kind of color. And I love the orange ones is my favorite one. So it's the most looking like a sweet potato. And I in the US really, really tried to like sweet potato. I just didn't. It has a totally different taste than the kumara here. The kumara here amazing. Amazing. In fact, I'll literally just chop it up with some garlic and some onion and roast it and have that for lunch. Kumara is better than the American sweet potatoes in my opinion. Number five, now this might not be a food, but we must talk about how good New Zealand wine is. Even in the US, I would drink New Zealand wine. It's kind of known to be the good wine, you know, soap, the Napa Valley of the US. In my opinion, doesn't compare at all. The typical wines that you drink in the US. I don't like compared to the ones in New Zealand. Now I'm not a huge wines drinker. I'm not a wine connoisseur and I'm sure there's plenty of good wines in the US that I haven't tried. But I'm telling you, New Zealand wine win so good. White, red, rosé, whatever you like. If you haven't tried New Zealand wine, I think they sell it at Trader Joe's to check it out or Whole Foods and it's so good. I don't think you'll be disappointed. In fact, I think they have it at Costco as well. Number six, let's talk about fruit. Produced in general, I don't know. I mean, I know that there are interesting practices in produce and producing fruit in the US. And this isn't the video for that, but the produce here in New Zealand is so good. And you eat in season here and so I'm in summer and so tons of fruits, so good. Like apples, so good. Just in general, like I really like the fruit and it's really in everything. You know what I mean? You always have to use the fruit, but sometimes, I mean, if you're eating the fruit and produce in New Zealand in season, you are not going to be disappointed. Fresh and delicious and they have a little bit of a different taste, so like the lemons have a different taste that I'm used to. They're not a sour and they're a little bit sweet as well. The grapefruits have a more of a sweet sour, so really good. I used to live in a house that had a grapefruit tree. Missed that, had that every morning. Lot different than the US one, so good. And number seven, since we're talking about produce, let's, we have to do a shout out to the eggs here. Now, I get far fresh eggs while I buy them from the grocery store. I just, I'm just going to be honest with you, you're not going to be disappointed by any of them. They're very good. They're definitely fresh eggs are better, but in general, you just, the yolks are like the full orange and they're just so good and so tasty and have eggs quite often here in New Zealand and it's not going to be just a shout out to the eggs in New Zealand, so good. Number eight, don't be mad. I know I say this all the time, coffee. I just have to put on the list. I could have written this, I have to put the coffee because if we're talking about differences in food and beverage or whatever in New Zealand compared to the US, you have to talk about the coffee. I don't know what they're drinking in the US. This drip coffee that they drink, they don't compare. So the coffee beans, they're roasting the coffee in New Zealand. So, it's so interesting to me. Like if we want to start a business, I'm constantly saying new little cafes or new little pop-up coffee shops everywhere. It's like, doesn't get old because people drink a lot of coffee. I mean, a lot of coffee. They drink a lot of wines, drink a lot of coffee because it's so good. It just doesn't compare. So you are in luck if you like coffee and you're coming to New Zealand. All right. Number nine, let's talk about pies. Let's talk about savory pies. New Zealand does savory pies so good. Now, they're not as prevalent in the US. Like we'll have the chicken pie is probably the most popular. And then various parts of the stage, you'll have more meat pies, but New Zealand wins. When it comes to savory pies, they're so good. So they're most popular are like mints and cheese, taken cheese in this like flaky crust. You can buy them everywhere, even in the gas petrol stations. And they're good. New Zealand wins on the savory pies. Does the US win on sweet pies? In my opinion, yes, because that's what I'm used to because I like the way that the crusts are made in the US, but the flaky crusts for the meat pies and the savory pies and you can get, you know, those are the two popular ones. You can also get, you know, chicken and like a vegetable one and like a Thai one or an Indian flavored one pies, savory pies. New Zealand wins. And number 10, we have to talk about ice cream. Ice cream is highly consumed in New Zealand and it's very good. Now, is it better than the US ice cream? Depends because like US has a custard, which is a little bit different, has more egg in it and there's more soft serve available in the US ice cream in New Zealand is really good. So what I'm going to say is some of the ice cream flavors here in New Zealand, so good. So like hokey pokey. Okay. So it's confession. It took me probably four years to actually try that because of the name. To me, it's a dance. It sounds like a child's kind of ice cream and I'm not going to try it. Guys, it's so good. You know, it's like a honeycomb ice cream and it's so good. You know what else is really good? They have what's called real fruit ice cream here and you can like when you're traveling and you see it and you see a sign for that pull over because what they do is they take literally real fruits, throw it in some ice cream and put in this machine and it comes out like a soft serve. Amazing ice cream. That's my favorite, the real fruit ice cream. So going to get good ice cream in both places. I don't think we can compare that but some of the slavers here, I figured I just really like how they put boys and berry or a lot of berry in their ice cream here is very good because our fruit is good and so that makes sense. And so yeah, try some of the different flavors here. Those are some of my highlights. I'm not a huge ice cream eater, but yeah, real fruit, hokey pokey. Try it and number 11. I don't have a specific food for this one, but I think it's worth a mention. So Indian food is a is probably one of the bigger takeout options here in New Zealand, where I'm from in the Midwest. It's hard to find Indian. It's there, but it's not as prevalent as it is in New Zealand. And so there's Indian flavors in a lot of food. So like we'll just take all your normal foods that you're eating every day and they'll add like an Indian flavor. Like I said, like the pies or you know, curries are very popular here. And so I'm just going to say that New Zealand wins on like just the variety and the easy accessibility to Indian food because it's really good here and it's it should take away everywhere. And if you're not familiar with Indian food or Indian spices, so they have figured out flavor. Let's just say that. So they can take vegetarian food and make it the most flavorful flavorful you've ever had. So go try it. If you've ever had Indian food, try it. When you come to New Zealand, definitely get Indian takeout. In number 12, last but not least, I just had to say this, the butter here. Can we just talk about New Zealand butter now? I used to actually, I know I can get it at Trader Joe's in the US, so probably other places as well. But butter, very food in general is really good. The milk, the butter, the creams, so good. So if you have a chance to try New Zealand butter, I highly recommend it. It is very, very good. So good. If I just want to say a shout out to talking about food, the kiwi pavlova, it is one of the most amazing desserts I've ever had. And actually as a side note, I do are in New Zealander and they're here in New Zealand and want to try some American foods that are really good. I do have an American recipe book, Child Link Below. You want to check out how to do it. I have adjusted to all the New Zealand measurements and ingredients that I think were best to make American food, so check that out if you're interested. I hope you enjoyed the video this week. Comment below and let me know what your favorite foods in New Zealand are and maybe some that I've missed. I tried it. I didn't mention a New Zealand food. I probably don't think it's better than what the US has to offer, but let's chat about it. So thanks for watching this week and I'll see you next week.