Polynesia - The Biggest Post - Part 3

Back to Polynesia, we go!

NEW ZEALAND
CUISINE
So you know about New Zealand, right? Right. So the cuisine of New Zealand is obviously influenced by the Englishmen of Great Britain. So before I go in depth of the dishes, here's an explanation for why English settlers cried most manly tears of joy. You see, in Great Britain, meat was scarce and was eaten in small cuisine. But when explorers found these two islands, there was bountiful amounts of meat, often to the point where meat was served everyday. So Britain was so happy to see this. But they didn't have the ingredients to make their home favorites so they imported British dishes to New Zealand. That's why modern New Zealand cuisine is a mixture of old English stuff and Maori traditions. So here's a couple of dishes. There's a special dish that is considered distinctively modern Maori is the Maori boil up which is the boil up of pork, potatoes, Kumara, and dumplings which is mainly influenced by introduced and indigenous methods of cooking. Another distinctively modern Maori is Maori bread which is made of fermented potatoes, aka, the same stuff vodka is made of. Also fun fact about New Zealand restaurants is that in virtually every single restaurant, they serve kebabs, couscous, and sushi. In fact, Sushi is considered by many New Zealanders as an adopted dish and that sushi is now a staple dish of New Zealand.

ATTRACTIONS
Okay so I've actually been working on this for a while now so here we go!

·         Visit the incredible Waitomo Caves, a humungous cavern which most notably has walls that glow a bright baby blue. This is because those blue things are glow worms, and everyone knows that glow worms glow but it’s still amazing. If you look close enough though you’ll see glowing string, don’t touch it because that’s a part of the glow worms. This abundance of glow worms occurs because a lot of things glow worms can eat exist in these caves and glow worms need to eat as much as possible because when they become adults they don’t have mouths so they need to eat as much as possible in order to sustain their future selves. The things that they can eat are a number of things ranging from mosquitoes, flies, spiders twice their size, and even other glow worms. This string is there to catch the things they eat. All of this obesity and cannibalism is just to sustain the future generation of glow worms. It may be a horrible and dark thought to think about the glow worms but it sure isn’t horrifying to look at them, in fact it’s the complete opposite. 

 

·         Are you pure-blooded explorer? Are you fearless mountaineer? Or are you a person who just likes to climb stuff? Well then the Franz Josef Glacier is for you! The Franz Joseph Glacier is a 12 km long glacier where if you pay admission, you can explore a glacial attraction that’s rated 4.6 out of 5 with a guide! Seriously, I’m not one for hiking but these guys somehow make it look fun:

• So finally is the incredible natural occurrence that anyone can enjoy, it is... The Hot Water Beach. The hot water beach is a beach on the northern island of New Zealand where under the water is underwater hot springs which rises up to the surface and makes the ocean water surprisingly warm. Also, if you dig enough (you don't have to dig too deep) hot water from the springs rises creating a pool of very hot water.

PEOPLE
Thankfully, roughly 98% the people of New Zealand speak English. The crime rate is also very low. Now that those two are out of the way, I'll end this country with a cute fact. Although people from New Zealand are formally New Zealanders, society has come up with a cute and short name for these people: kiwi THAT IS JUST SO CUTE AND FUNNY AND MAKES ME WISH I WAS FROM NEW ZEALAND SO I CAN BE CALLED KIWI!!!

 

Final score of New Zealand is...

 

99.4%

 

Wallis and Futuna

EXPLANATION

Okay so this really isn't a country per se but it's a Collectivity, of France and there a bunch of islands on this collectivity and there's no real attractions so doing this would require me to do a post on France which I cannot do so here's a website that explains pretty much everything about Wallis and Futuna

 

 



The Soon To Be, Newest Country?!?! Part 1.

First of all, sorry for the delay. I'm busy a lot and I'm also easily distracted. Second of all, here's the explanation for the title: In May of 2015 a group of people planted a flag between Serbia an Croatia and claimed a new nation, no turmoil, no negotiations, nothing. This tiny micronation was titled Liberland and ever since its creation, its population has been growing ever since and is today at 250,000 people. With almost full UN recognition and a constitution in the makings, Liberland is going to be become the youngest nation in history. So I thought this little country was amazing and I got curious and I decided to make a post about it, so withou further a due, I present LIBERLAND!

CUISINE

Liberland's cuisine is that of Croatia, which is Czech cuisine. So Liberland's cuisine consists mainly of schnitzel, the several delicious kinds of pastries, and the endless abyss of meat dishes. One of the most basic dishes is Puding, which is simply just several flavors of custard stacked on layers and typically topped with assorted fruits and served in a cute glass container. Another type of dish is a type of Bruschetta, Obložené chlebíčky. Which I'm not even going to try to pronounce. The toppings of these Czech finger foods can vary from county to county, but here's a list of typical toppings:

 

Instead of marinara: Cream Cheese, Lobster Past, or Italian Potato Salad is used

 

For Toppings: sweet-and-sour pickles, vine-ripened tomato, cooked ham, pepperoni, hardboiled egg (quartered), wedges of brie or camembert, slices of blue cheese or Roquefort, and/or yellow or red pepper sliced into thin strips

 

The Garnish is typically fresh parsley, basil, capers, chives, peas, red paprika, thinly sliced lemon, and/or thinly sliced red onion

 

That took surprisingly less time than I expected to type that all down. Anyways, the last dish is the Czech hot dog. You have no idea how funny I find this. I don't know how to explain this in my own words so I'll just quote Wikipedia:

 

" a street food consisting of boiled or steamed sausage dipped in mustard or ketchup served in a roll with a hole made inside, not in a sliced bun like the common hot dog. It is influenced by German cuisine."

 

That sounds like the kind of stuff Duckin' Donuts would come up with! That was kind of funny, so see you next part!