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Food & Flavors

Food is at the heart of Marshallese culture, sharing, celebrating, connecting with homeland.

  • Staple

    Breadfruit (Mā)

    The most important staple. Roasted, fried, boiled, or fermented into bwiro.

  • Celebration

    Chukuchuk

    Sweet rice balls in freshly grated coconut. Made for every celebration.

  • Seafood

    Coconut Crab

    Prized delicacy, land crabs fed on coconuts give sweet meat.

  • Seafood

    Grilled Fish (Bwij)

    Fresh fish in soy, lime, spices. Grilled to smoky perfection.

  • Traditional

    Bwiro

    Fermented breadfruit in banana leaves, cooked in underground oven.

  • Dessert

    Mafa

    Sweet breadfruit pudding with coconut milk, vanilla, cinnamon.

  • Main

    Palusami

    Taro leaves with corned beef in coconut milk curry.

  • Main

    Pumpkin Porridge

    Pumpkin, rice, and coconut milk porridge served with fried fish.

Coconut husks and ground plants growing on Bikrin islet, Majuro Atoll. Photograph by Cliff Hansen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source