Otago & Southland Street Food

5 dishes in New Zealand

5 street foods from Otago & Southland, New Zealand: Fergburger, Central Otago Cherries, Bluff Oysters, Southland Cheese Rolls and Speight's. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Otago & Southland

🍔 Queenstown Institution · Queue-Worthy Burger Fergburger It began in a tiny converted garage down a back alley with zero advertising, and the queue that built up by word of mouth alone has become as much a… Fergburger piles thick house-made patties — beef, lamb, venison, fish or falafel — high with fresh toppings inside a soft bun, wrapped in paper and eaten standing on the street. Since… 🍒 Summer Orchard Icon · Stone Fruit Central Otago Cherries Around 90 percent of New Zealand's cherry crop grows in this one inland region, and much of it is flown to Asia to arrive in time for Lunar New Year. Dark, glossy cherries ripen through Central Otago's hot, dry summers from late November into February, sold by the bucket at roadside stalls and pick-your-own orchards around Cromwell and… Foveaux Strait Delicacy · Wild Dredge Oyster Bluff Oysters They're flat oysters (Ostrea chilensis), a different species from the Pacific oysters farmed further north, and the Foveaux Strait beds have been… Bluff oysters are dredged wild from the cold, fast-moving waters of Foveaux Strait and eaten raw, straight from the shell, prized for a meatier, more intense flavour than farmed oysters… Southern Comfort Snack · Grilled Cheese Roll Southland Cheese Rolls They're so tied to the south that they're jokingly called 'Southland sushi', and cafés elsewhere in New Zealand often don't sell them at all. White bread is spread with a savoury cheese-and-onion-soup filling, rolled up, buttered and toasted until the outside turns crisp and golden and the inside goes molten. They're sold by the… Dunedin Original · Pride of the South Speight's The brewery still sits over the same natural spring it tapped in 1876, and to this day it lets anyone walk up and fill a bottle with that spring… Speight's is a smooth, malty draught-style beer brewed in the same Dunedin building the company has used since the 1870s. It's the standard pour in pubs across Otago and Southland…

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