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Yu laikim long kaikai? Do you like the food

After settling into a routine earlier this past week, the meal staff started mixing local foods to our diet. The main meal is generally a hot lunch. Breakfast is more the basic foods including toast, oatmeal, homemade yogurt, boiled eggs, and sticky rice. Milk is not widely available so the staff sources powered milk to mix up with water.

Dinners are usually lighter but still included a hot food. Most meals come in the form we would recognize as soup or stew. Any foods purchased in a store, whether packaged, fresh or in prepared form in PNG are expensive, very expensive. Anything you can eat is called kaikai. The kuk haus (kitchen) staff of 4, whom are local PNG women, work with a couple (Jon and Missy) who are the �"managers�" per se. Together they meal plan and feed 47 members of this POC class, including the children (olgeta pikinni). The traditional PNG recipes they are following are very good and use local produce. If you would like a sample recipe at home let us know and we can email you a few.

In the meantime try these words of kaikai we have been enjoying and their English common name:

Ananas �- Pineapple Muli �- greens served like cooked spinach Popo �- papaya Taro kongkong �- sweet potatoes Pitpit �- green vegi minced and put in soup / stew for flavoring Banana kuk �- cooked bananas which taste like French fries (not sweet) and salted Tulip �- like bay leafs for flavoring meals Kakaruk �- chicken�....and yes it tastes like chicken Switpela kaikai �- anything desert (pudding, cake, banana bread etc.)