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Samoa

Umu earth-oven feasts, palusami and coconut cream.

Iconic recipes

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Young taro leaves baked into tender parcels with thick coconut cream, onion and a pinch of salt — Samoa's signature umu side.

Samoan raw-fish salad cured in lime and dressed with coconut cream, cucumber, tomato and chili.

Sweet Samoan coconut buns baked sitting in a pool of coconut-caramel sauce.

Warm Samoan papaya soup with coconut milk — a comforting Sunday breakfast.

Samoan chop suey — bean-thread noodles tossed with soy-glazed beef, ginger and vegetables.

Steamed coconut-bread rolls drenched in dark caramel coconut syrup.