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Wildfoods Festival Review
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Wildfoods Festival
Fodor's Review:
For many Kiwis, Hokitika is on the map purely for its annual Wildfoods Festival, which celebrates bush tucker (food from the bush) from the West Coast's natural food sources. Bite into such delectables as huhu grubs (they look like large maggots), worm sushi, whitebait patties (far more mainstream), and snail caviar, and follow it all with gorse wine, moonshine, or Monteith's bitter beer. The mid-March fest attracts crowds of up to 20,000, six times the local population. Entertainment includes lively performances by members of the Hokitika Live Poets Society at the tree stump by Billy Tea Hut (where else). It can get rowdy at night at the barn dance, which seems to spill through the town. Of course, a good dump of West Coast rain will quiet things down -- until the next year. Take your gum boots.
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