The competition celebrates New Zealand and Samoan foods and it challenges the participating restaurants to make a new mix of New Zealand ordinary foods and spice them up with their own touch of Samoan style.
One of the competing restaurants ‘Palusami’ located at Vaitele described the experience as eye opening.
“I have never seen the challenge taken to a level like this. Everyone is just thinking outside the box here and I’ve seen the other entries and man you cannot believe the creativity given in to them,” said head chef Jesse Lee.
