Trying New Zealand’s Best Restaurant!! Can’t Believe They Serve This!! 🇳🇿

root vegetables

🥗Healthier: sweet potatoes

💰Cheaper: carrots

Sweet potatoes add flavor and nutrition while carrots are more affordable.

meat

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is leaner, while pork is often less expensive.

Visit Ai restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand.

Meet Chef Ben Bailey and learn about New Zealand food.

Observe the open kitchen and the unique local ingredients.

Chef explains the significance of long fin eel to Māori culture.

Prepare the eel by cutting through it and placing it in a hot water bath to remove slime.

Scrape off the slime from the eel after it has been in the hot water.

Make a small cut in the eel to allow blood to drain.

Hang the eel over a fire for 3 hours to smoke it.

Place the smoked eel in the fridge to dry age for 3-4 days.

Open Pacific oysters and Rock oysters carefully, ensuring to cut through properly.

Taste the oysters and describe their flavor as reminiscent of the ocean.

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