Traditional Laplap Cooking Class

About This Experience

Laplap is Vanuatu's national dish — a delicious root vegetable pudding wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in an underground earth oven (umu). In this hands-on cooking class, you'll learn to prepare laplap and other traditional dishes from scratch using fresh, local ingredients.

A local mama (the traditional cook) will guide you through every step — from grating the root vegetables to preparing the banana leaf wrapping and building the earth oven. You'll sit down together to enjoy your creation with the whole group.

Highlights

What to Expect

• Learn traditional food preparation techniques
• Prepare laplap from scratch with local ingredients
• Build and use a traditional earth oven (umu)
• Prepare coconut cream, grilled fish, and island salad
• Eat your creation with the group
• Take home recipes and techniques