Papua New Guinean cuisine - Wikiwand

Papua New Guinean cuisine - Wikiwand: The cuisine of Papua New Guinea are the traditional varied foods found in the eastern part of the New Guinea island. With 82% percent of the population being rural,[1] and about 85% of the population depending on semi-subsistence agriculture,[2] the cuisine is heavily based on agricultural crops, including yams, taro, rice and sago. Fruits such as pineapples, pawpaws, mangoes, passionfruit, and more are also abundantly grown in Papua New Guinea and etc.[3] Though there are little influences from the cuisine of Southeast Asia, a nearby region, Papua New Guinea shares similarities in cuisine with surrounding Oceanian countries, and even the western part of New Guinea.