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| Thread ID: 57134 | 2005-04-24 11:11:00 | Need help on Maori words translation | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 348314 | 2005-04-26 11:38:00 | Another question: What does kai moana means? As in fishes? What is paua, pipi and kina? Are they some sort of fishes? Cheers :) Kai Moana is sea-food Kai = food, Moana = sea |
Aurealis_ (7897) | ||
| 348315 | 2005-04-26 11:59:00 | Another question: (snip) What is paua, pipi and kina? Are they some sort of fishes? Cheers :) Paua = a shellfish called abalone in other countries. Paua has a beautiful opalescent shell often made into jewellery. The flesh of the most common kind here is black, and very tough unless handled properly. Mostly people only eat the foot, but it is relatively common for people to eat the gut sack raw or cooked. The foot is usually pounded (like some people do to steak) before cooking to make it tender. A very well prepared paua is delicate and delicious. Can be fried in steaks or minced and made into patties/fritters. Some people cook it in cream - very rich. Pipi = a relatively common bivalve shellfish found on many sandy beaches - white flesh, very sweet, commonly eaten raw or minced up and made into patties/fritters. Similar to tuatua and the prince of this family - toheroa. Kina - sea urchin or sea egg - a spiny shellfish that eats seaweed. Commonly people eat the yellow gonads (they are rich and creamy at the right time of the year, or nasty, thin and bitter at the wrong time), but hardier souls than me crack the shells, stir up all the contents into a soupy mix and swallow the lot - most of which is half digested seaweed with a VERY strong iodine taste. |
John H (8) | ||
| 348316 | 2005-04-26 12:23:00 | Another question: What does kai moana means? As in fishes? What is paua, pipi and kina? Are they some sort of fishes? Cheers :) Add to the list, what is pupu? |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 348317 | 2005-04-26 20:57:00 | start with the easy ones here am i tin o cocoa | wotz (335) | ||
| 348318 | 2005-04-27 03:27:00 | Need even more help, what is "whakapapa" and "mokopuna"? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 348319 | 2005-04-27 03:33:00 | Need even more help, what is "whakapapa" and "mokopuna"? Cheers :) Whakapapa ~ ancestry/lineage Mokopuna ~ descendents/children |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 348320 | 2005-04-27 06:18:00 | As for a pupu; I think that is another type of shellfish; also known as a Cats Eye | Myth (110) | ||
| 348321 | 2005-04-27 07:14:00 | As for a pupu; I think that is another type of shellfish; also known as a Cats Eye That is correct - it looks a bit like a snail, not very large, lives on rocks in the intertidal zone, and the operculum (the thing that seals off the opening in the shell and protects the animal itself) gives it the Cats Eye name - it is a round piece of pearly shell that looks like a cat's eye. People eat them (raw or cooked? - certainly cooked) by hooking the beastie out of its shell with a pin. Pupu shells are quite commonly taken over by hermit crabs. Some people call them bubus (i.e. pronounced booboos). Not sure why, but it probably has its origin in a Pākehā mispronunciation. Mokopuna may certainly mean descendants or children (I am unsure about that) but its most common usage means grandchildren, great grandchildren etc. |
John H (8) | ||
| 348322 | 2005-04-27 07:49:00 | Thanks people. More to come..... Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 348323 | 2006-09-17 22:33:00 | hey kai moana means seafood. paua pipi and kini are all seafood. |
sezy (7958) | ||
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