Tours

Tastes of Sandringham

Food & Spice Tour

Taste traditional Indian & Sri Lankan cuisine right here in Auckland

Our Walking Food Tour explores the flavours and ingredients created by centuries of trade and movement across this vast region. Our host restaurants or food guide will share the background and origin of the foods we eat. Expect to eat Sri Lankan spiced nuts, traditional snack foods and rice pancakes, modern Indian fast-food, award-winning Biryani, Manchurian-influenced food, and Indian dishes introduced to India by the Arab traders. Local beverages are also included.  

• This tour can cater for Vegetarian and Gluten free.
• Allow 3 hours rain or shine- Meeting Place and Time- outside Community Centre – Kitchener Rd, Sandringham; 2.30pm
• Payment: $75 – includes food and some drinks  

EAT  – “through food an insight into another’s world

Tastes of Panmure

Tastes of the Maritime Spice Routes 

The Maritime Spice Trade started in Portugal and sailed to Central America, down around Africa to Sri Lanka or through the Pacific, then across to The Spice Islands and SE Asia. Start with snacks originating from Portugal and Sri Lanka, taste food containing cinnamon – a prized traded spice, enjoy traditional food from the Philippines influenced by seafarer Magellan; eat seafood dishes adapted by the seafarers, enjoy a bowl of well-known laksa and finish with something sweet using cacao or corn.  

• Because of the diet diversity experienced around across The Spice Routes we are unable to cater for special dietary needs.  
• Allow 3 hours rain or shine- – Meeting point: Outside library entrance, 13 Pilkington Rd, Panmure 1072- starting at 2.00pm
• Payment: $75 includes food and some drinks

EAT  – “through food an insight into another’s world

Tastes of Panmure

Tastes of the Old Silk Road Tour

Enjoy foods fit for Ottoman Sultans, Chinese Emperors and Princes of the Raj. Panmure literally takes us on a food tour of the old trading routes from Persia to Korea, and south into SE Asia.

Persian flatbread from the start of the Old Silk Road pairs perfectly with Korean kimchi from the end of the land road- and in the middle we have famous Chinese fare; preserved or cooked in different ways – dumplings, smoked, traditional duck. The silk road branches south to India & Sri Lanka for dishes prepared using highly sought spices. We finish back at the start with Middle Eastern sweet treats.

• Because of the diet diversity experienced across the Old Silk Road it is difficult to cater for special dietary needs, but we can offer some vegetarian options.
• Allow 3 hours rain or shine – Meeting point: Outside library entrance, 13 Pilkington Rd, Panmure 1072- starting at 12.30pm
• Payment: $75 includes food and some drinks

EAT  – “through food an insight into another’s world