Learn about Maori food and culture with Tom Loughlin – legendary tangata whenua (person of the land), host, chef and hunter.
You can participate in the traditional food preparation and cooking of the hangi (feast) using traditional Māori gathering techniques and cooking methods. Alternatively, just sit back, relax with a drink and leave the work to Tom.
What awaits is a unique culinary experience – a journey into the history of Māori kai (food).
Cooked over a real fire on a purpose-built platform beneath the stars.
You are surrounded by carved Māori Atua (gods), the children of Rangi the sky father and Papatūānuku the earth mother.
You can participate in the traditional food preparation and cooking of the hākari(feast). Alternatively just sit back, relax with a drink and leave the work to Tom, who is an expert hunter, gatherer and professional chef.
Storytelling and Māori legends are a big part of the experience. The stories you hear, sitting around the open fire in this vast and beautiful wilderness, will never be forgotten.