Ok so we've been here 3 months and have found all the weird and wonderful 'foreign' ingredients we like to cook with (shrimp paste, miso, spices etc.) some of them in surprising places.
What we're now hankering for is some more 'normal' food. What we haven't yet found in our explorations is a single decent deli of the kind that will sell you ham off the bone, cheese cut to your liking etc. Or a fishmonger. There's certainly plenty of fish around but the chippy only sells fresh what they'd fry themselves. Hubby was wondering the other day where one would find fresh crab, or squid with its bits still attached, rather than frozen 'tubes'.
I'd love to know whether I'm hankering after something that doesn't really exist. We're on the North Shore by the way, shop in P&S Albany, Takapuna Foodtown and the F&V shops out Hobsonville way, and we're looking forward to trying those sausages from the butcher in Devonport which are nestled in our freezer.
So come on people, what have we missed?
Thanks