Warning: this post contains some graphic food! 
” Get your Mountain Oysters!”
“And what is your purpose for visiting New Zealand today?” the Christchurch immigration officer asks me when checking my immigration form. “To visit the Hokitika Wild Foods Festival” I answer. She laughs “Ahh okaaay. Well good luck! I wouldn’t eat half that stuff” and waves us through.
The Startled Worm Cafe-featuring earthworms among others!
The Stream Larvae stall
Shark anyone?
Our trip to New Zealand was almost a year in the making which is a long time for a person like me who has very little patience. Mr NQN and I were being hosted by the lovely people at Tourism New Zealand and the event that I really wanted to go to was the Wild Food Festival held in March each year thereby necessitating the year long wait. It was something that we had heard of on our last visit where we had heard that all sorts of weird and wonderful things were being served there. A few days before I find myself looking up their website to see what I am to face. I find myself googling “What is punga?” and “What are huhu grubs?”. There are also larvae, worm truffles, mountain oysters (aka sheep’s testicles), moonshine, stag meat patties, mutton birds, paua, locusts and grasshoppers but then there is “safer” fare like shark, venison, wild boar and whitebait.
The bugs on offer
From 10am-5:30pm this sunny Saturday, the small town of Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island, they will welcome just under 15,000 visitors to this one spot. Parties are encouraged with posters advertising “bring your party to our party” and dressing up is encouraged as we discover. The festival has attracted a lot of media attention in the past and has been featured in Playboy magazine (who claimed that the emu shells sold there were an aphrodisiac), The Amazing Race and features in Frommers Top 300 events in the world snaring second place 2 years ago (only pipped by Italy’s Slow food Festival). It pumps $2 million into the local economy and serves up an enormous range of food. One year they served up 10,000 Whitebait patties which is a South Island speciality and this year 300kg of whitebait was caught for the festival.
Pukeko (swamp hen) skewer
We start off with a tour of the stands. The Pukeko is a swamp hen that is considered a pest that takes duck eggs and we try a Pukeko skewer that is given with every purchase of a sausage or a fritter. It’s small and tough and flavoursome with a rich kidney flavour to it.
Frying Whitebait
The Whitebait batter
We then visit the Whitebait stall. There are a few stalls selling whitebait which is a small fish (although they’re bigger here than the ones we had in Kaikoura) and they are mixed with a pancake batter and then fried. The result is a lightly, mildly fishy flavoured pancake fritter that is also soft and spongy. They’re served on white bread (as we learn, everything is served on white bread here).
The first flock arrive
Suggestive vegetables
Venison sausage $3
We ease into the day with a venison sausage which is richly flavoured and gamey (and yes served on white bread). Fortified with courage, we head towards the tent which houses some of the more…unusual specimens of the day.
The Grasshopper stand
Pickled Huhu Grub $3
We need to try the item that is the most featured and perhaps the most squeamish item: the Huhu grub. They are large wriggly grubs, probably similar to witchetty grubs (although I haven’t tried one myself). Here they come pickled for $3 each. Mr NQN who is a typical boy that loves telling his mates that he survived eating certain things goes first. I try one and it’s sweet from the pickling and soft with a slightly grainy texture inside with the skin being a bit tougher than a sausage casing. Not bad but nothing I’d rush out to eat again and since we survived it jut fine we got onto the grasshoppers.
Fried Grasshoppers on satay bread $5 each
Battered beetle $5
Grasshoppers? Yep grasshoppers as well as Huhu beetles are on offer here. A chef in training opts to try a live grasshopper and a crowd gathers. They give him a shot to chase it with. He shrugs when he is done, apparently that kind of thing doesn’t faze him. Each year they bring 150 live grasshoppers the size of crickets to the festival and they always sell out of them. We opt for the fried grasshoppers on satay sauce and it tastes just like those tiny fried prawns or a not very meaty soft shell crab. Our next purchase is a huhu longhorn beetle covered in chocolate which tastes just like a rice crispy chocolate with a slightly longer crunch. Not bad at all. We’ve now worked ourselves up to the worms. Gulp, yes the worms.
Chocolate coated Huhu beetles
“Jonah Lomu eats worms” the poster declares. As for me, I have a fear of segmented, wriggly things. Still, the idea of coming here and turning back without eating the worm sushi or a worm truffle persuades me to try them. There are a few varieties of worm served here and they’re all common garden worms. “Do you eat worms normally?” and the boy behind the counter steps back waving his hands “Nooo noo” he says and tells us that these are just sold for this event. We start with the worm sushi. It’s pickled ginger worms with a shard of carrot. It’s actually very nice with the worm being indiscernible. In fact there is another Japanese vegetable that looks very similar to this and if I didn’t know it was worm I’d think it was that. Mr NQN tries the “Worms with Wings” aka worms in Red Bull and he remarks that it really just tastes like Red Bull. I then try a worm truffle which is made from dried, crystallised worm that have been ground up.
Crystallised worms
“Did you get any truffle stuck in your teeth?” the boy asks “That’s the worm if you do”. Arrgh I think to myself, so that’s what is stuck to my teeth. Despite that the truffle is perfectly nice and tastes like a rum truffle with a slight crunch to it.
Volunteer Taste Tester
A man walks past in a tshirt that reads “Wild foods Taste Tester (Guinea Pig). You buy it, I’ll try it” and he confesses that he had a tough time eating the bugs and insects in the other marquee. We wonder how he’ll go with this lot.
Live Huhu grubs
Full of a slightly gruesome sounding but tasty breakfast, we walk out into the sunshine to see wood choppers to our left and camera crews at the ready. They’re not chopping wood for fire but they’re cutting radiata pine in search of live Huhu grubs. The boys walk around holding the largest wriggling grub they can find enticing people to try one (priced from $1-$5 according to size). I’m just not game-to me they look like giant maggots and all of my instincts tell me that maggots shouldn’t be eaten but Mr NQN braves it and the video cameras set in motion. How did he describe it? He’s typically a man of few words and describes it as “gooey and jellyish – all the stuff came out of it”. Every time someone tries one of these, news and digital cameras are whipped out. One girls poses with the live grub wriggling on her tongue whilst one man ends up throwing up after eating one. I keep my mouth firmly shut (for once ) .
Stream larvae Turkish Delight $1
Stream larvae toffee $3
Bug jelly
We see the bugs and insects that the taste tester was talking about so we try the “stream larvae” Turkish Delight which is more like rose flavoured jelly rather than real Turkish delight. It’s pleasant and sweet and the stream larvae don’t impart much flavour or texture as they’re so small and it is much the same with the toffee. The stall is manned by students, one an entomology student and another biology student and they tell us that the flying insects took weeks to catch using nets. Catching the stream larvae was easy but sorting them with tweezers was a laborious process.
Mussel and Wild Boar skewer $3
The mussel and wild boar skewer is sweet and hot as it’s straight off the BBQ. The wild boar is similar to bacon but double the thickness and the mussels are plump and sweet.
Escargot $2
We try the escargot in the shell and cooked in garlic butter from one stand (although admittedly this is pretty normal, especially after worm sushi).
The Hangi stall
Hangi pie $5
We take a walk around the outdoor stalls. There is Fijian kava being sold at one stand as well as mutton bird, raw rabbit mince and a hangi pie. I like hangi meat as it’s so lovely and soft so we try the pie. It is very mild in flavour with a very soft pork meat inside. They are also selling the soft meat sliced up in white bread
Kava stall
The Punga fern
Pickled punga
Honey coated punga
Punga is a fern palm and they sell the flesh from the inside of the punga which is either eaten raw, pickled or cooked with honey. We try all three of them starting with the pickled which is sweet with a texture and taste similar to a Japanese pickle. The honey punga is slightly firmer but coated in sweet honey and the raw one has an unusual slimy texture and is like a daikon radish although with not much flavour at all. Of the three we prefer the pickled, honey and then the raw.
Colostrum stall
Colostrum mousse
“What is colostrum?” I had to ask. It is apparently the first milk produced by a cow within the 2-3 days following the birth and is said to be highly nutritious. A shot here is $6 each and there are two varieties, a chunky colostrum or the pure colostrum. Mr NQN opts for the pure one and says that it tastes just like a creamy milk. I try the colostrum on a raspberry jam pancakes and it’s delicious and tastes just like cream.
Colostrum pancake $3
The faux udder!
Mr NQN downs the colostrum to a ringing of the bell!
Exotic salamis
Our next stop is the exotic salami made from animals such as turkey, wild boar and hare which we’ll all heard of but also more exotic animals like Tahr, Chamois and Venison.
Chamois goat salami with crackers and cheese $5
We’re torn whether to get the Tahr or the Chamois and ask what the difference is and the Canadian man next to us asks the same question. He gets the Tahr and we get the Chamois and we do a bit of a swap to try both. The Tahr is stronger flavoured and Mr NQN likes that but I like both. They’re served with a sweet chilli style sauce and some crackers and cheese.
We were saving the “best” for last: the Mountain Oysters aka sheep’s testicles! It’s also the stall with the most gawkers.
“Come on guys, try them, they’re full of cum!” the cowboy hatted guy behind the counter yells holding up two raw sheep’s testicles.
Mountain Oysters on white bread
“That’s not really selling it to us!” a guy yells back. True there is a large contingent of people watching to see who will come forward and try some mountain oysters. There are whole boiled ones in a hospital grey shade that don’t look particularly appetising or you can opt to have them sliced up and fried with onions on bread. They’re surprisingly mildly flavoured and very soft like a pudding and there is the strong flavour of mutton fat.
Grouse Cordial $3.50
We try some Gorse leaf cordial which is a beautiful floral flower similar to Elderflower in taste. The petals were handpicked in nearby Christchurch.
Our penultimate stall is the honey stall where they sell honeycomb in little cubes. We try the Manuka honey one for my cold. It’s sweet and strong and I get little bits of comb in my teeth but that’s to be expected. In ideal conditions, each of the above trays takes a colony of bees just a day to produce and our little square is the lifetime of four to five bees!
Honeycomb pieces $2 each
Moonshine!
Our last shot for the day-literally! Mr NQN tries some moonshine after seeing person after person line up for a serve. For $2 you get a shot of moonshine spurted into your mouth. And how does it taste? “Like metho, only a little bit better” Mr NQN answers.
As the day wears on and 1pm hits, the crowd triples and the costumed groups come out. There’s an endless parade of them with some very impressive efforts.
So tell me Dear Reader, what is the most impressive dress up costume you’ve ever worn or seen?
NQN and Mr NQN attended the festival as a guest of Tourism New Zealand.
Hokitika Wild Foods Festival
13th March, 2010 – the next Wild Food Festival is on the 12th of March 2011,
http://www.wildfoods.co.nz/
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Wow, interesting! Some of the stuff looks amazing, other things look mighty terrifying! You were very courageous…
Cheers,
Rosa
I love the expression of the woman in your “Frying Whitebait” photo! I can’t help imagining she’s unhappy about smelling, say, satay grasshoppers or fried beetles or something
But apart from that – Oh my!! So many tastes and experiences in the one post! I think I’m most impressed that you ate the rocky mountain oysters – pure honeycomb is definitely well-deserved after that!!
Wow! Man, I thought I was adventurous when it comes to food, but mr and mrs NQN have brought culinary adventurism to another level
*shivers*
Oh god, I don’t think I’ve ever commented on a blog post to say “how absolutely hideous” but there’s a first time for everything.
I guessed what colostrum was before reading the explanation. Thank god it was from cows. Mind you, Ms Marmite Lover in the UK has recently served something made with human breastmilk at one of her underground supperclub events – I recommend you check out her blog if you’ve not seen it before, she’s very creative.
There were a few things I liked – I could handle the venison sausage and that salami. I had to look twice at the vegan poster!!
Oh dear lord. I can’t even think of a dress up costume, I shall be thinking of that insect, offal and bodily excretion buffet
I’m torn between salivation and wanting to turn away! lol
OMG what an interesting exerience!
oh my – I should NOT read this kind of post before breakfast hehe. Sounds interesting though! One of the craziest things I have tried was Wild Boar Salami when we were in Italy … and it was actually really good!
OMG crazy!! I’m usually one to try everything at least once but I don’t know about the crunchy beetles…it’s the crunch/squish that freaks me out! Looks like such a fun festival though
You are one brave woman Lorraine! I don’t think I could stomach a lot of that stuff knowing what it was…Love the whole write up and those costumes are hilarious! Back in 1986, I got dressed up as “Prince”…big curly wig and all!
Crazy!! I love the Suggestive Vegetables. Will never look at my salad in quite the same way again.
Good on you and Mr NQN for exploring and tasting on behalf of your readers!
SSG xxx
Wow was a word that kept escaping my mouth as I read that post along with “ewww”. Yes I believe most mammals that produce milk also produce colostrum including humans- so glad that they were using cow milk- although I hope not too many baby cows missed out.
Looks like one very interesting event. I wouldn’t mind going there and try out some of the things they serve. I love the whitebait in NZ, they are so much tastier than the one I can get in Syd. Arrr I want to go to NZ again !!!
Oh my goodness, I don’t even know what to comment on first!
Your post has captured the spirit of the day so well. Brilliantly documented and photographed.
How fantastic!
You are certainly braver than I! I’d be happy to taste the honey and escargot, but wow, I would have a difficult time with the rest. Looks like a lot of fun though!
Wow… thank you for all the lovely info, it was just like being there. I think the little girl with the butterfly painted on her face…. I don’t know why but she seemed very sincere.
That is one interesting festival! I’m really impressed at how much you tried. I don’t know if I would have had the guts to try the number of things you tried.
Great blog and wonderful photos.
What is moonshine?
Jealous of the manuka honey squares, yum!
WOW! this is so interesting! (: A few the\at I would definitely enjoy, but some I wouldn’t dare try! especially the bugs. haha but nice post, once again Lorraine! (:
WOW! this is so interesting! (: A few that I would definitely enjoy, but some I wouldn’t dare try! especially the bugs. haha but nice post, once again Lorraine! (:
OMG! I read this just before having breakfast – you are a brave woman. How scary is that food, and how scary are the people who make it? Whacky Kiwis. I’m sending this through to my facebook site – more people should see this. It’s great!
I feel a little ill… the jelly, and the grasshopper on toast look like joke toys!
oh my goodness. You are braver than I Nigella and mr NQN is crazy!! Not sure I could stomach even watching people eat some of the ‘delicacies’ there!
Looks like a fun day out, but I don’t know that I’d line up for the bugs, grubs or mountain oysters – eeewwwwwwww.
Hmmm interesting food. I did find most of it appetising e.g the wild boar and mussel skewer, white bait, Venison sausage and also the exotic salamis .. but I just can’t do creepy crawlies.. Those are the sorts of things that keep me up late at night :S
What a great experience. I would love to go to an event like that some day
I’m someone who gets squicked out by the power of suggestion, so eating most of this stuff is such a no-go area for me. Makes me break out in a cold sweat! I have eaten roo, wallaby, crocodile and emu before though.
As far as the colustrum is concerned, it rings a few bells with me. I’m not sure of the stats, but I’ve heard that many calves are ‘collateral damage’ for the dairy industry – their mothers are made pregnant to produce milk, and the calves are destroyed. I realise I’m a complete milk drinking, meat eating hypocrite, but knowing that has made me very uneasy, and really think about what I’m going to do with my diet in future. Still thinking about it, but it’s shocking when you realise that you’ve held a simplistic view of the food industry for so long!
Sorry to be Debbie Downer! Hope to redeem myself by saying my favourite dress-up was a flapper outfit. Moreso because it involved a trip to the ABC Hire warehouse, and I could spend hours in that place!
What a hoot! Ms Lorraine you have well and truly trumped all our holiday snaps of NZ. Can this be what they mean by “the real Middle Earth”????????? Thought the limits of the NZ imagination was stretched when they invented Bungy Jumping. And here we were, sipping mere sav blanc on the South Island last week, never dreaming there was colostrum to be had just over the hill!
I love this post, Lorraine! I was laughing at that bit about the worms in the teeth! I give you so much credit for trying all of this. I have to say, I think my hubby would have loved to join you…he LOVES tasting new/unique things like this!
You brave girl.
oh that poor piggy im so sad coming across that picture its one thing to make bacon or whatever out of a pig but to parade its head around like that is awful
i have a japanese authentic kimono costume that i have yet to wear (and i keep forgetting about it when a costume party does come up)
Now that is my kind of food! Especially the insects! ooooohh I soo want to try (and I am a pecatarian, hehe)! I wish I could have gone to such a nice event! I love these types of things!
No! No! No! One does not need to try everything at least once! Some things are simply disgusting! Just because they both begin with ‘d’ it’s crazy to mix up ‘disgusting’ with ‘delicious’ – and there was so much that did look wonderful.
I read this far too soon after breakfast! Sooo happy to be a vegetarian
Hats off to the pair of you! xxx
I love NZ, get to travel there for work regularly, but never ever have I heard of this festival. Love it, totally love it. Thanks for sharing the unusual with us. I have had white bait fritters and pancakes before and they are rather nice, is a big thing right round NZ. Brave girl for trying all those creepy crawlies
AWesome! I wanna go there! I am usually pretty open about trying different foods but I must admit those bugs put me right off. Too many legs! Ewww.
After this post I will NEVER again think of New Zealand as a beautiful but boring place!
I think you are the intrepid journalist through and through willing to go through hell for the sake of a good post, no? I am admiring here!
I tasted lamb testicles once at a Persian friend’s and thought that would be the extent of my forays into exotica.
The moonshine is the only thing I think I’d have had the guts to try! That’s some gross food!
Oh gosh, my stomach is turning – sheep’s testicles, grasshoppers and colostrum!! EWWWW!!!
Very very brave of you to try all of that.
The relevant question is ‘how does Mr NQN know what metho tastes like to drink’! Very worrying indeed.
I think whitebait and venison should not be allowed in the festival as they’re not at all wild in the sense of ‘out there’. My 5 year old daughter eats both of them.
Those Nu Zeelanders sure know how to have fun but in a ‘weird’ way. Lol
Great food , costumes and good time had by all, your photos are the best. I like the ‘Smurfs’, too cute.
Last year at our local doll show one of our members dressed up as a Wizard, he really looked the part! I went along as Maid Marian as the theme was Storytime.
OMG u r so brave NGN! Thanks to u for trying this for us =)
I am sorry that should read NQN =)
You are a brave girl to try all that you did and Mr NQN is even braver to try the live grub; I lol-ed at his description of it. Maybe I’ll work up the courage to try that one day… Not the live grub though, anything that oozes stuff when eaten will not be included on my list of things to eat before I die.
What an interesting post. I love those costumes. My sister saw someone dressed as Pacman!
OMG. I dont think I could eat anything at this festival. My eyes are watering and I think I need to uhhmmm Vommit. Huhu Grubs? They are too cute to eat.
Lorraine! My face is all squelched up now, and I can’t make it unsquelch!
WOW that was a graphic post. I squealed at one point and had to scroll down as I hate any kind of bug with feelers.
I’d gladly eat a worm-shaped bug but nothing creepy crawly.
My best outfit would have to be Marie Antoinette- or MOrie Antoinette as I called myself for Movember gala party 2008…
http://www.twitpic.com/ios72
Wow, you’re brave – some of that stuff is pretty intimidating!
moonshine, venison sausage, and colostrum, yes. i’ve ventured to those places. the rest of it i find scary and intimidating. you are a brave eater indeed, lorraine!
Oh my what an interesting day, I’m sorry but there was definately no drooling throughts while I scrolled through. You are definately brave trying all that!
I havn’t really had alot to do with costumes in my lifetime but a 21st I went to a couple of years ago the birthday boy hired a Darth Vader suit, was really awesome.
I’ll pretty much try anything once as long as it’s not alive (apart from oysters maybe and I prefer not to think about it!) Bravo to Mr NQN for giving it a go, though it’s not that different to witchetty grubs I guess but no, I wouldn’t eat those live either!
Wooo so interesting and literally wild festival that is!! But, I squealed at bugs written on the menu, and got goosebumps seeing them in the pictures!! I don’t think I could ever handle bugs…. *brrrr but drooling at pig head*
Honeycomb looks AWESOME!
omg! you’re so brave!! i don’t think i would be able to try all of those things.. though some of the stuff look quite nice!
i’ve tried grubs a long long time ago but they were steamed with egg and from memory it had a texture a bit like chicken/fish but didn’t ahve much flavour in it haha
OMG.. That is a lot of weird food. I think that Andrew Zimmerman would be so proud of your attempt!
Your sense of adventure is to be commended. I don’t do anything that looks like worms either!
Wow! That is such a cool (and weird) festival. Are all these things actually edible? Or just non-toxic? I’d happily eat most of the bugs but hats off to you, no way am I putting a mountain oyster in my mouth!
Oh Lord, You are so brave to try all that food. I am not. I never heard of 99% of that food, the garlic Escargot are delicious, I did try Deer Sausages, and Moose meat , Frog Legs and some wild birds but this is the max of my advendure. This is wild and beyond my imagination.
HEHE OH DEAR. that’s one crazy food festival. i think i’m going to be sick now
sheep’s testicles!!! what are you thinking! for a second there i thought you’d gone to a third world country. love the dress ups though! and i can’t believe your asking the question ‘what is the most impressive dress up costume you’ve ever worn or seen?’. i thought it would have been more ‘what’s the most challenging food (if you can call it that) that you’ve ever tried. congrats on getting flown over. i hope you weren’t too sick after? how did your stomachs survive the bugs?
I can’t do bugs. Or snails.
Wow, I loved reading this post. I would love to try about half of those specialties while others are a bit terrifying
Pretty cool though.
wow.. quoting the lady at immigration ” I wouldn’t eat half that stuff” haha..
thanks for being so brave to try them n letting us know how they taste.. I’m curious but I don’t think I can get myself to eat a grub or a beetle.. I can handle the honeycomb though
Wow I never thought that there were people other than my dad who liked Whitebait pancakes. This is a traditional dish on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent – they call it tri tri (pronounced tree tree) fish cakes. The fish they use is black but same concept of frying the whole fish innards and all in a batter. You have the most amazing food experiences
Congratulations babe.
I was going to break my healthy eating with a square (who am I kidding WHOLE BLOCK) of chocolate and now I am just not feeling hungry. At all. OMG.
This is so awesome. I must go here one day. This is totally going on my list of ‘must visits’. I am however disappointed by the prevalence of white bread. I may have to take a nice loaf of rye with me
I will admit that the colostrum grossed me out though, as I can’t not associate that word with (human) breast milk. That hairy palm grossed me out too, for some reason!
New fan of you blog here!
As a half Kiwi girl, I’m ashamed to say I have never been to Hokitika Wild Food Festival (though I have been to Hokitika)and I have eaten bugs (in Laos though) – kind of like really salty chips they were. Do you not think colostrum is the most vile word? It sounds too close to colostomy for comfort ;P
What an outing…..I have a book up in the study – its called ‘Man eating Bug’! I love it cause it goes round the world profiling different cultures and their different tasty bug delights. Superb covering of the event….as always!
Awesome AWESOME post! Love all the costumes too – especially that man dressed as a bumble bee.
wow. my admiration for you and mr. nqn has just increased 10 fold. so brave!
What an awesome experience! I’ve always wondered what whichetty grubs would taste like but have never been able to bring myself to try, so thanks for giving me an idea of what it’s like.
holy moly you and Mr NQN are very game!!!
i would never try any of this !!!
euuughhhhhhhhhh
makes for one interesting blog post though!!!
You have some brilliant stuff on your blog. I’d never really thought about NZ as place for out there foods but this certainly proves me wrong. I’ve tried some interesting creepy crawlies when travelling up in the Northern Highlands of Vietnam, I think the strangest thing was probably bee pupa. Had bbq scorpion which was once you could get over the idea pretty good. There is a good place in Hanoi called Highway 4 that serves up these dishes as well and some suprisingly good rice wines as well.
would eat: the honey. the various wild vege. the bugs. <>. the “oysters” (given enough fried onion).
would not eat: the colostrum. even with chocolate.
–isn’t it funny where different people draw the line?
i think tourism new zealand invested their money wisely in you!
i’d never heard of this festival before reading this post and now i’d actually consider timing a trip to NZ to coincide.
fantastic!
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