Day 12 Queenstown - Food Version

After our great bungy jumping,  we must celebrate for our victory Celebrate we conquered our fear, celebrate we finally did it. Wahaha ( I know many people also did bungy jump before, but let me show off a bit ok??) Therefore, we, as a typical chinese, our celebration must be related to food. Yeah, we love good food. Let's go!!!!

For those who had been in Queenstown, you must heard of this famous burger. This shop sells the best burger in New Zealand. No matter you search from tourist guide like Lonely Planet, or you ask a local kiwis, they will strongly recommend you this- The Freg Burger!! Our celebration meal of course must be New Zealand Best

At the moment I wrote this, I wish I can fly to Queenstown and eat the Freg burger again!!!

This shop was packed with customers when we were there. This scenario was considered normal if the shop served delight food. But, the crazy part of the shop was a bunch of people will always queuing for the food regardless what the time was!! OMG, People in Queenstown were really going insane because of the Freg Burger.

After waiting for some moment, finally we got our burger. Yeah

Let me show you how big the burger was. The burger was as big as my face!! Crazy right?? For those who have a big stomach, this burger definitely worth for you.

Ok, it's time for me to recommend the burger that I ordered.

Name of the shop: Freg Burger


1) Southern Swine - Prime New Zealand beef, American streaky bacon, lettuce, tomato, red onion, avocado, aioli & tomato relish. Wao, this was lezat
Cost: $12.00


2) Apart from the beef burger, they served scrumptious lamb burger as well-
 Little Lamby - Prime New Zealand lamb, mint jelly, lettuce, tomato, red onion, aioli & tomato relish
Cost: $11.30

If you come to Queenstown, remember try this burger. This is the MUST EAT food in Queenstown.

OK, after the lengthy promotion of the burger, let me introduce another nice food in Queenstown  - Winnies.

 Another restaurant that recommended by local. This restaurant famous with its own make pizza. The choices of pizza were not much. We were allowed to order 2 flavours in 1 pizza with the condition you ordered the big pizza.

 Of course, we must try more flavours if we can The pizza was topped with sour cream when it served. Yeah I love sour cream.

Montonara. 

I love this flavour and most customers love this too The pizza consisted fillet of chicken, sundried tomatoes, brie & Spring onions, drizzled with sweet chili sauce topped with pistachio sour cream. The taste was unique and the combination of the ingredient was perfect. The only imperfect part was the pizza base was a bit too soft. Anyhow, the pizza was still delicious.

 This side of the pizza was Tri Factor. (Prime steak cuts, bacon, mushrooms, caramelised onions and BBQ sauce) I think the BBQ sauce was too strong and it actually cover the taste of the ingredient.

Name of Restaurant: Winnies
Cost: -
Small     : $18..95 (Pizza for one)
Medium : $27.95 (8 slices)
Large     : $34.95 (10 slices)

Food Must Eat In New Zealand Part I

My love post Food version of New Zealand.

 Travel without eating good food is never a complete trip. Let me introduce the food must eat in New Zealand!! Of course, I'm the judge for all the delicious food this round. No offence! :P

1) Pie

Pie is the food you can see in every bakery shop. This is the Kiwi Food that must EAT in New Zealand. Kiwi even organise an annual Pie award called 'Bakels Supreme Pie Award' in New Zealand. That is enough to show how much Kiwi love Pie. The shop I would like to introduce is one of the winner in Supreme Pie Award. I've tried pies everywhere in New Zealand, of couse, pie with awards. Yet, I personally love the pie from this shop.

Vegetable and Steak Pie. 

Whole chunk of steak is available in the pie, vegetable is soft enough to match the pie, the gravy in the pie is so unique and you can even taste the different from the first bite of the pie until last bite. Wao Yummy

Name: Beaut Bakery Ltd

Address: 179, Spa Road, Taupo Town Centre, Taupo, Waikato. (Just opposite to Taupo Bungy)

2) Fish & Chip

Another type of Kiwi lover. When I was in North Island, some of people told me snapper was the best fish for fish & chip. But when I was in South Island, I was told that Blue Cod was the best. Sadly, I do not have a chance to try snapper fish & chip until the day I leave. *sob sob*. So, I can't tell you which is one is the best. Here, let me introduce the Best Fish & Chip that I had in South Island! 

The Fish & Chip. Of course it was Blue Cod. It was not oily and you can taste the freshness of the fish even though it was fried. Their beer batter chip with crunchy coating also a MUST EAT fries there.

Name: Lockies Takeaway

Address: 30, London Street, Hampden (Just five minutes away from Moeraki Boulder, Oamaru)

3) Burger

This is the famous burger in Queenstown and of course the best burger I had ever tried. The food that highly recommended by local and also the tourist guide.

The Southern Swine. 

The burger served is huge and it is as big as big face. No Cheating!! Beef and lamb in New Zealand is undoubtly good. It's really hard to describe how nice the burger is. Try it, You'll fall in love with it.

Name: Ferg Burger

Address: 42, Showover Street, Queenstown

4) L& P

Soft drink is my favourite drinks when I was small. Coca-cola, Sarsi, Sprite are common to us. After I grow up, I rarely have those soft drinks because they are simply too sweet for me. But when I reached here, I found a type of soft drinks which is refreshing! The taste is not too sweet and the lemonade make you want to drink and drink again.

L&P basically stands for Lemonade and Paeroa. Originally, Paeroa is the place manufacture this soft drink.

Name: L&P

Address: Can get it in all supermarket like Pak n Save, Count Down, New World and even in fast food restaurant.

Stay tune for Part II

Food Must Eat In New Zealand Part Ii

Let me continue my food version blog in NZ. The top 10 food must eat in New Zealand. The judge of the lezat food of course none other than -> ME. Wahaha!

To view the previous post, view here.

5) Crayfish
When we talked about Crayfish, most of you must be thinking of Kaikoura. This lovely town which surrounded by snow capped mountain produced fresh crayfish, or some known as rock lobster. The Maori even named this place as 'eat crayfish' ('Kai' stands for eat, 'koura' is crayfish). So, how can you miss crayfish here?

The local used the most simple way is used to cook the crayfish to preserve the most original taste of it. The taste of crayfish is so nice and you should solely have it without any sauce. The additional sauce will just spoil and cover up the freshness taste.

This shop sells fresh crayfish with reasonable price.

Name: Cod & Crayfish
Address: 81, Beach Road, Kaikoura.

6) Fudge
I'm not sure whether fudge is a type of kiwi food or not, but it is definitely a western confectionery. It was my first time to have fudge. *shame shame* I have tried a few fudges from different shops, yet I think this shop sells the best fudge.

The fudge is really smooth in texture. In addition, the taste of the fudge is very rich and creamy. You can taste it before purchase and choose the flavour that you like. You can even mix and match! Get help from the shop assistant to cut the fudge into smalled pieces and you can combine and buy different flavour instead of buying 1 big piece with one flavour.

Don't be surprise when you step in, it is indeed a souvenir shop.

Name: Pot Pourri
Address: 60, Rue Lavaud, Akaroa

7) Cheese
Cheese lover please look here!! This factory produce lots of lovely cheese. They served free samples tasting everyday and if the free tasting couldn't satisfy your evil stomach, request for a platter! It just costs you around $5 (If I'm not remember wrongly) and you are able to taste 5 different types of cheese!!!

I personally like their brie so much. So rich, so creamy and so smooth! Thumbs up!!

Name: White Stone Cheese

Address:3, Torridge Street, Oamaru 

8)  Quiche

This is the kiwi food that I fall in love with at the moment I tasted it. I never heard of this food and never tried it before I stepped in New Zealand. The only reason I ordered this is just because I never see this before. :P OKOK, I know I'm the frog under a coconut shell. 

This is Smoked chicken courgette & sun dried tomato Quiche. So soft and so delicious. Yummy I even want to learn how to make this so that I still can have it when I back home! Sadly, SOMEONE promised to teach me but he had forgotten until the day I leave New Zealand I still didn't know how to make it!!

When I searched this cafe online, I found that this cafe won a lot of awards! Yes, awards again, kiwi love awards. That shop won 2010 best cafe award, gold winner entertainment, best family restaurant 3 years running. Awesome!

Name: Circus Circus Cafe

Address: 447, Mt. Eden Road, Auckland, New Zealand. 

9) Grand Angus Burger

Yeah, McDonald's seem like everyone's choice all over the world. This special burger is just sell in Australia and New Zealand (according to wikipedia). Of course, this burger is the BEST burger served in fast food restaurant! No cheating. One of my friend, she never take beef because she doesn't like the taste of beef. But, after she tried this Angus burger,she FALL IN LOVE with it!!

Name: McDonald's

Address: Everywhere

10) Coffee
Coffee in New Zealand always not our (Malaysian) cup of tea. Kiwi loves light coffee but we prefer strong coffee. However, we still trying coffee in those cafe which is highly recommended! And lastly, we finally found  a place served good coffee!

Again, this coffee shop always packed with a lot of customers. If you do not wish to dine in, you may order the coffee through the window and collect there.

Name: The Fix

Address: 87, St David, St North, Dunedin.

Mark down all this MUST EAT food in your to do list! Or else, you will regret!!