Restaurants have table service, and are found mainly in hotels. Apart from hotel and boarding-house dining rooms, there are restaurants featuring Tongan, French, German, Italian, Taiwanese and Japanese cuisine. Tropical fruits and salads are excellent.
Feasts play a major role in the Tongan lifestyle.
Nightlife is sedate, limited to music and dancing in the hotels, clubs and occasionally at the Yacht Club . Floorshows are held on some nights in the main hotels and the Tongan National Centre. Tongan feasts and entertainment are also organised. There are duty-free shops on Tongatapu and Vava'u. A government tax of 5 per cent is added to all bills for goods and services.