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After booking cheap flights to Fiji, holiday travelers will have money to get fattened up properly at one of Fiji’s native homes and eat great food.

For about £25 per night, tourists can try a home-stay with a Fijian family. The holiday traveler will be given a bedroom in the family home. The guests will enjoy traditional Fijian food like fresh fish dipped in miti, which is a heavy coconut sauce mixed with onions, lime juice and chilies. Boiled cassava and traditional bread fried in palm oil round out the meal.

The native Fijians in the villages still rely on an agrarian existence for their food. That makes it difficult to find truly native Fijian food in restaurants.

The west coast resorts still offer the lovo. Lovo cooking features traditional food wrapped in leaves, set on heated rocks, covered with earth and cooked. Tourists can enjoy various dishes such as chicken, seafood, cassava and taro. The taste is subtle and distinctly South Seas.

A third traditional food holiday travelers should try is palusami. Taro leaves are filled with coconut cream and tangy onions, with a bit of tinned meat added. The Sheraton Royal Denarau Resort offers authentic lovo feasts for tourists who want to eat native food.

The ultimate Fijian food experience happens at the Sigatoka village market. It’s here where tourists can sample fresh and tasty delicacies straight from the island’s considerable bounty. This area is filled with fruit and vegetable vendors hawking eggplants, mandarins, yams and pumpkins. Coconut flesh is piled like mounds of snow. Sellers offer lauki, tavoika and daruka, which is a seasonal delicacy that tastes like asparagus.

This market is southwest of Natadola on the Sigatoka River.

Cheap flights to Fiji allow tourists to enjoy this multicultural nation and its food. Suva, Fiji’s capital, is the focal point for the polyglot Indo-Fijian culture. Japanese, Chinese and Indian restaurants are well represented here. This is a mecca for foodies who love curry dishes.

Steaks are offered at the capital’s continental restaurants. Kokoda, a Fijian dish that features cubed fish and a coconut sauce, is featured in most hotels and resorts.

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