HELP DESK Travel Insurance Postcards Message Board Art Gallery Dining is a highlight of Vanuatu. Fresh local fish, beef, fruit and vegetables are in plentiful supply and Vanuatu is famous for its coconut crabs. Restaurants offer Melanesian, French, Polynesian, Indian, Chinese, Thai-Vietnamese, English and Japanese dishes at very reasonable prices.
Restaurants are also notable for their cleanliness.
Like other South Pacific nations, Vanuatu's icon meals are prepared in an earth oven, heated by extremely hot rocks. But the meals themselves differ from their neighbours. An example is laplap, which is made from grated root crop, topped with fresh coconut milk, island cabbage and meat or fish, wrapped in banana leaves and baked in the earth oven, uma . Visitors wanting to experience kava, the traditional south Pacific drink made from the roots of a pepper bush, can buy it by the bowl full at a kava house, nakamal. But be careful to watch how others drink before trying it.