Wayne & Gail Chen Bringing the Gospel to the Biem people in Papua New Guinea As part of our national language and culture study, we asked Gail’s language helper to cook us some authentic PNG food this week. Food…and everything that comes with eating…is a big part of any culture and PNG is no different. Most people (even right here in town) simply eat papaya, mango, yam and coconut for food most of the time. There are other times where they will cook food over fire though they do not do it everyday. What you see below is a pretty big meal.
The day began with Gail going to town market to do some shopping with Ruth
Starting fire…
Scraping coconut meat for coconut milk.
Bananas and sweet potatoes…staple food in PNG.
Greens (veggies) and fish are cooked in coconut milk along with some salt and ginger.
The whole cooking process took about 3 hours. Abby and Kala both enjoyed the bananas and fish. The greens turned out really good. It is definitely not the way we are used to cooking but it opened our eyes to the day to day living of the people here. Here’s our host family…
