Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. You can’t go wrong using them on your trip too. We believe this list to be the best in each category. Travel Insurance: we start at InsureMyTripas they are the best option to compare plans and find the right coverage for you.īefore you book the rest of your trip: Check out our travel resources page for more companies that we use when you travel.Activity discounts: we always check for discounts of up to 70% on selected tours, activities, restaurants and more.Cars and Campervans: we use RentalCars to find the best deals and dealer ratings.However, for self-contained lodging in New Zealand, we use Bookabach. Hotels: we use as they consistently return the best rates and their reviews are from actual guests.Flights: we use Expedia for the best and cheapest flight options.However, we also added a few personal NZ favourites: We usually start with aggregator companies as they do the work for us by providing a list of options, prices, and reviews. Save on your NZ trip with these resources No worries mate, you’ll be right now that it’s all sorted. If you give a kiwi kid a choice of two foods, their polite answer will undoubtedly be “I don’t mind.” Just accept it and make your own choice.A sparrow fart is just an early morning sunrise.That guy walking down the street wearing tiny shorts that are too tight – that’s a New Zealand fashion called stubbies.It’s just a happy expression and completely bird-free. Don’t worry about what you will do with a box of fluffy ducks.If your mate tells you about someone pushing up the daisies, look sad they are talking about someone who is dead and buried.When they tell you to put your woollies on, it refers to any warm layers. Don’t go to the shops looking for woollies (like I did).If it’s pissing down, bring an umbrella.Remember to cheer for your favourite team, not root for them.If you are angry, remember to say you are “pissed off” (not just pissed).When told to bring a plate to an event, be sure it has food on it to share.Still confused? Here are my tips to avoid the top 10 common funny New Zealand language blunders: And don’t even get me started on that vile spread Kiwis call Marmite.(by including “beet” this becomes a family-friendly use of the word root). Hamburgers don’t come with pickles, but rather a slice of beetroot.At a sausage sizzle, you will get a sausage on one slice of buttered white bread folded over like a bun.Baked beans can be served cold and eaten with a fork straight from the tin, or if heated, they go on toast with a fried egg on top.(Jelly is American jello and often served with ice cream.) Therefore, a peanut butter sandwich has butter, not jelly. Sandwiches have a required layer of fat – mayonnaise, butter or margarine.Just don’t violate the unwritten food rules: There is even some kind of sauce, cheese and beetroot on these tiny burgers.
What’s the difference? I used to wonder until I learned caster sugar is closest to American sugar, icing sugar mirrors powdered sugar, and brown sugar seems to translate across cultures. Just from New Zealand’s largest sugar company, Chelsea, I found: raw sugar, white sugar, caster sugar, icing sugar, soft brown sugar, coffee crystals, demerara sugar, organic sugar, and dark cane sugar. Good luck finding plain “sugar” on a typical grocery shelf. Before adding it to my coffee, I add sugar, as New Zealand “cream” is simply whipped, with no sugar added. And should I accidentally defer to my Americanisms and ask for cream rather than milk, I will get a strange look, followed by a dollop of whipped cream. Personally, I prefer milk, so my options are macchiato, flat white, cappuccino, café latte, mochaccino, or a latte macchiato. Now if I want black coffee, I can either get filter coffee (as in the type made with a Mr Coffee look-alike), an espresso, or a “long black” which is an espresso served with a side of boiling water. I had thought Starbucks was difficult before I became an expat. There’s even Kiwi slang for coffeeĬonfused? If not completely baffled yet, simply try and order that cup of coffee. However, if it is the American-style pudding they want, they would have asked me to bring a mousse. When I am asked to “bring a plate,” it is assumed there will be food on it to share, and if that food is to be “pudding,” well, then any dessert will do. Although, sometimes morning tea is a snack and a cuppa is a coffee, usually served with a bickie, which I used to call a cookie. If I just want a cup of tea, it’s a cuppa. If I invite someone for tea, they expect dinner. Then there is food, or more specifically, tea.
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