Papua New Guinea

CUISINE
According to Recipe Wiki, Papuan cuisine is extremely varied but the staple foods are rice, sago which is a starch found in sago palms, and sweet potatoes. Each of these food are often served with seafood, game, pork, and even several greens. But almost all the time the basic foods that Papuans eat are what I call light foods, as in foods that are simple and tend to not be heavy on the calories or any sort of thing you'd see on the back of a box of chocolates or orange juice. Some of these foods are every type of rice, some sort of starch, chicken, fish, and foods that have a light color. So first off for the dishes is Muli Wara, which is a Papuan styled lemonade. Sadly I could not find a recipe for Muli Wara but Wikipedia says that muli means citrus, so, got that going. Next up is Papuan Style Baked Sweet Potatoes, here's a recipe!

Ingredients

Nutrition

Servings 4-6 Units US

• 3 cups cooked sweet potatoes, mashed
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons finely sliced onions
• 3 eggs
• ¹⁄₂ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon milk
• salt and pepper (to taste)

Directions

1. After mashing the cooked sweet potato, mix in the butter, onion, milk, cinnamon, salt and pepper to taste.
2. Separate the egg whites from the yolks.
3. Beat them separately. Fold the egg yolks into the mashed potato followed by the egg whites.
4. Place mixture in a greased baking dish.
5. Brush the top with butter and bake in the oven with the dish placed in a pan of water for 30 to 35 minutes at 325°F

Lastly is the Yam Patty, a deep fried mixture of ingredients including flour, eggs, and even but obviously yams!

ATTRACTIONS
Roughly 99% of the attractions in Papua New Guinea are actually natural and the 1%? It's just a show performed by a tribe which we'll start on! The Goroka Show is the largest and most well known tribal gathering in Papua New Guinea, it's a Sing-sing held every year near the country's independence day in the town of Goroka. Next up is the Milne Bay, a GINORMOUS bay of water in the Milne Bay Province. It is roughly 35 kilometers long and over 15 kilometers wide! The bay was the site of the Battle Of Milne Bay during WW2 and the Milne Bay became the major support base for Japan's New Guinea Campaign. The biggest reason why the US won the battle and prevented Japan's expansion in Papua New Guinea was because Malaria spread incredibly quick throughout the country and Malaria was a very severe case in the Milne Bay and the US kept their troops sanitary while several Japanese soldiers died of disease making a big turn in the fight between Japan and the US. So this big and beautiful bay has some dark yet interesting backstory. Finally, is the stratovolcano known as Tavurvur. One second, a stratovolcano is a volcano that tends to explode quite often. Anyways, it lies near Rabul on the island of New Britain and is quite amazing. Unless it happens to erupt. Which it did in 1937 leading to the death of 508. It's only safe to visit when there are no clouds around or when it's not about to erupt.

PEOPLEPapua New Guinea's 3 official languages are Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, and thank the lord, English. But there is a catch, only 1 to 2% of Papua New Guinea speaks English. That is it for language, currency is also simple. 2.64 US Dollars is 1 Papua New Guinea Kina, simple as that.

Okay, final score time.

Papua New Guinea earns a...

 

67.29

 

You see Papua New Guinea didn't fare so well in any of the categories which is why is was about to give it a 50 but then I remembered the cool attractions which made me want to give it an 80 but only two attractions were actually cool, everything else was just a volcano or something you could see in like Mississippi or somewhere in the US. Which is why I gave it a 60. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Papua New Guinea, our first Purple!