Tongan food

These are the questions we want to find out about food in Tonga.

What kind of foods do they eat?
What do tongan people eat?
crab, polisi - porridge, poaka - pig, bulu - beef, niu - coconut, ika - fish, hoose -horse meat, fruit - mango, octopus, squid, lice - rice, coconut milk, faina - kapisi - cabbage, pineapple, drink water, siaine - bananas, talo - taro, pateta - potato, peas, beans, lesi - pawpaw, onioni - onion, temata - tomato, pea - pear, lemani - lemon, kaloti - carrot, apele - apple, moli - orange, koane - corn, klepi - grapes, pulu - beef

How do tongan people catch food to eat?
Use a heli - knife to cut it then cook it and eat it.
Go in a va'a to catch ika and octopus.

Where do they find their food?
How do tongan people get food?
What place does the food come from?
Go to the fair to buy food and clothes and toys.
Sopini -shops to buy food.
Tongan garden.
The ocean.

Do tongan people eat poaka?
Yes but for celebrations and birthdays.

How do they catch a pig?
Run with a heli and catch it and kill it.

Do tongan people eat rice bubbles?
Not in Tonga but in NZ they do.

How do they make tongan food?
Cook the poaka on the spit.
In an outside umu.

Do tongan people have chips?
We have tongan chips. They are soft and made of potato. In NZ they do.

Do tongans drink coconut milk?
Yes

What do tongan people eat for dinner?, carrot, tomatoes, peas and beans, cabbage, talo - taro
poaka, octopus, masalo - mussels, ika - fish, moa - chicken, pulu - beef

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