My Kinda Kai

The big day has finally arrived and all the food that I've gathered from around the country is ready. Looking at all this kai and thinking about all the people I've met reminds me of a great Māori proverb about cooperation: Nāku te rourou, nāu te rourou, ka ora te manuhiri; with your food basket and my food basket, the visitors will be fed.

– Presenter Pio Terei on preparing the hāngī feast

The name Peruperu actually comes from where they came from, from Peru . . . You will find all these different varieties in that area up in the Andes.

– Dell Wihongi discusses the origins of Peruperu/Taewa potatoes

I like going tuna-ing because it’s like a good sport and it's a lot more exciting than just going to a supermarket and just buying it. Like you can tell people "Yeah I caught this today". You taste it and it's good.

– Te Maapi Pere on why he likes catching his own tuna

...this hāngī today is going to be a little bit different. We've gathered food from all over Aotearoa: some indigenous foods that have been prepared and collected in the traditional way, plus a few favourite introduced classics.

– Presenter Pio Terei explains what will be in the hāngī, at the start of this documentary

When we were young we were made to promise that whoever continued to bird on that island would continue in the traditional way, and to teach our grandchildren — not our children, because children won't listen to you. Grandchildren listen. So it was impressed on us: teach your grandchildren and keep that tradition going, and impress on them that they had to do that too.

– Tiny Metzger on keeping the tradition of muttonbirding alive

[It's] traditionally a Māori thing obviously, but I reckon every Kiwi should know how to make a hāngī. Why not?

– Presenter Pio Terei on making a hāngī