Totally agree. Niue has the best taro in the world and it is dangerous eating takihi with a knife! lol Thank you Shimpal for sharing this treasure with us. Fakaue lahi!

Went to Niue for a one week meeting (because there was only one flight a week back in those days). Ate takihi at that meeting for morning tea, lunch, dinner along with the roasted pig, coconut crab, lobsters, fish and chicken. I gained 10kg in weight when I went back home. I think it was the takihi. In Samoa, we had a similar dish but along with most traditional Samoan foods, it has been lost to time unfortunately, although the name that my grandfather told me for the same dish, it sounded very much like takihi, although in Samoan there is no 'H' sounding word. So I think it was, in approximation, in Samoan language, takihi was kakisi, which makes sense, when you was think about it, like its sweet so when you go for it it's like saying to your girlfriends, aumai se kakisi, auoi!

I've never heard of those ingredients. Makes me want to travel to every remote location in the world! I love culture!

Definitely miss my dad's cooking and enjoyed your video. Appreciated you eating island styles as my dad would do and cooking real niuean styles with so much love for cooking umu. So grateful for video 😍

In png we also make that with slice or grated sweet potato , yam and casava as well.Even put taro or aibika/Island cabbage in between the layers as well.Yummy

🤣🤣🤣 eating with the knife, island way....I love this when the Niuens make it for international night at church...now I know how it's made, it's beautiful 😍

We make this in the UK, Little bit of Niue in England! but we have to use our conventional oven.....

Going to give this a try today! Substituting an electric oven for an umu, and canned coconut cream instead of fresh, due to geographic limitations :D

Island food is the best,whether it's Polynesia,Melanesia or Micronesia. I come from the South Western Pacific and we have different colour taro. Purple,yellow,white,dark purple,purple and white,yellow and white and orange . Thank you for sharing your beautiful tasty recipe,I will definitely try it out

Fascinating! And that’s the guy who eats with a knife! 😆😁 Niuean Shimpal Lelisi’s trademark. I didn’t realize he was the same one I saw earlier on how to cook taro until he started tasting the food! Funny!

Looks nice, never tasted that before. PS, in the Cooks we have all sorts of taro. Pink,yellow,grey and dark grey which is the nicest as well as the yellow ones. And the pink Taro comes from Niue.

Man , takihi is sooo good ,but need to try it with Niue kalo

Daymmm takihi sounds delicious and cool how he eats from the knife islandstyle😂🤣😆✌&❤

Fantastic cooking demonstration, thanks. My neighbour in Grey Lynn, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ was telling everyone on fb he was having takihi for breakfast. So I googled and found this great video. Shared it world-wide. Could start a takihi frenzy everywhere? Who knows, lol.

ya right about the taro! the best because its nice and sweet!

TAKIHI!!!! My absolute favourite 😍 great video 👌🏼

Great work !!thanks for a VID...NIUE PARADISE!!

💯% Niue Taro Best in the world.... Islander already, KNIFE SPOON😂😂😂

thank you for sharing love it

Now I want to try some of this. Looks so good ❤️

Bro you need your own program. Cooking, sports, music, arts, tourism (get to travel) News and culture from Niue. Anything Bro your O for owesome, like our brother David. Your'd be an excellent front man, host , whatever! Bro. you got naturel, friendly vibe, can connect wif us. All da best bro. Maori Boy westie. GO HARD!!!

Shimpal the man!

I'm hungry now....... great recipe!

Yummmm got to try this...got it..

Awesome. I loved takihi when I lived on Niue ... but I never saw any tarsealed roads there ... mind you, it was 50 years ago, lol.

Love your video bro. Watching from Fiji! Taro from the supermarket🤣 True story bro, Fiji has green, purple and almost black Dalo! Vinaka! God Bless!

Looks great ☺👍

Wow that looks deelishhhhh💞

Yup we do have the best taro!!!

That was so Awesome and very educational, Thank You.

Awesome video. Well done. The takihi probably tasted awesome too.

As a Samoan. I agree. Niue taro is the best.

Mahalo for this! will try this in my next imu.... Aloha from Hawaii

Awesome Bro! Alofas from the Uk👌🏽

I love your videos! I have missed true Niue Food❤️

I reckon Cook Islands have the best taro. We have all kinds of taro pink, white, and yellow

What do you use to for the sifting of the coconut cream mutton cloth ?

Ohh I haven't tasted that for ages it's so nice and taro is the best part😂😂😂😝😝😂Alofi has the best taro well to me they do

Looks really good bro . yummm .

My nena made one in Fiji and they ate it all and plus it was just a little one

nice takihi cuz...laugh when I see my dad,memories to remember

Takihi looks like a version of stone oven cassava cake. Probably delicious from the tropics.

When he started eating with the knife I couldnt stop laughing! 😂😂😂 Looks yum though, great job!

love niue taro if you havent tried it your missing out 💯💯

OMG ur beautiful n ur food it's sad bkuz my beautiful mom Fenika {RIJ} is niue but I don't know who her father is NOTHIING I was either 2 young or didn't pay attention when she spoke of him, all I remember is her telling us that she went 2 NIue with my oldest brotha n oldest sista 2 visit her father n family n how beautiful , kind, n loving they were 2 them, n I remember 1 time we were shopping @ a samoan market in Carson n this handsum man said hi 2 my mom n they started talking only it wasn't Samoan I kept listening n I swear I did not understand anything she was saying {me faikakala lol} n boy this man must of been flirting with my mom bkuz she was giggling n laughing {mom kalakiki} lol but it was a beautiful language , I really wish I knew something about her father or family names I wud luv 2 visit NIue n Samoan b4 Jesus takes me home !!!!!!!!

Probably watched this 7-8 thousand times lol #TakihiTheBest

Nice filming skills aye

Awesome video that looks so delicious.

Bula vinaka ma brother, thanks for sharing your recipe, I will tried it one day, but nothing beat the smell n taste of our traditional cooking...the lovo or umu....god bless

Oka e takihi haau ma Lelisi 👏🤩

well done man. such a nice meal

5:43 once it's in it's IN!!!!

Delicious food bro love from PNG👍

Str8from the yamness

No lie niue taro is the BEST

Yellow and purple dalo is my faaaavourite mmmm 😋.. Now I'm craving takihi 😔

Takihi 😍

Yeah! Nice

It's look delicious and healthy food 😍🍴 thanks for sharing this amazing video. I know Niuean people eat deliciously meals.

real Polynesian food natural!

That shirt tho! Polynesian Panthers

My parents went Niue last year and came back with heaps of yummy food made in the islands. Even though sucks that coconut crab is not aloud in NZ no mo😭 but the food I was looking forward to was takihi😍 my partner Samoan he never tasted takihi before till he had a taste.... he loved it😂 poor fing lol. I’m looking forward for some more island food this year when mum & dad goes back😍 hurry up November! 🙄😂

nice! awesome video awesome takihi.....fakaua lahi lol

Malo bro....luv takihi!

Yum

Fakaaue ma Sham, I have cooked my first takihi, it came out awesum, did nit have the banana leaves thoe,

I wanna try fresh taro so bad.

Per fortuna si tratta di un piatto vegano. Non oso immaginare se il tizio avesse preparato un piatto a base di carne, vista la sua aria truculenta. Costui mi fa davvero passare la voglia di mangiare.

looked bomb bro!

Mitaki lahi ma bro!

woah! Did anyone else notice he's wearing the Polynesian Panthers t-shirt.

Yummy love takihi I'm in Australia... can I wrap in tinfoil when cooking or should I use spinach leaves

Nice.... I will try making Takihi when I move back to Aitutaki ...Next time try eating with a fork or your fingers. LOL

yumm!!.. eating with a knife can be dangerous! lol

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damn, that looks SO good! I need to stop watching food videos >_

you should try it straight out of the omu yummy

Lol dangerous dont eat with a knife hahahaha. Yum

I like your PREHEAT the oven method hahhahahahahaahahaha

Wow

If i were to make this, Which i am how long do i keep in a conventional oven and what degree/temperature do i set the heat? Pls and Thank you in advance.

Does papaya have be ripe or half ripe or don't matter?

Can you do the Samoan Taufolo.....it's one of the Samoan food I missed....

E tau fua huhu neke huhua he Kai takihi Yes best taro in the world 🌎

Rip cousin Raymond🙏🏻 I remember the bro it's me Henz

can you do one for falaoa niu or pitako?

Yummy

Preheat the oven😂😂😂

Anyone know the song at 6:25

Delisioso 🤤🤤🤤 awesome video 👌

sorie guys my husband's part niuean so im gna try nd make this so do u add salt?

I'm gonna try to make this when I go for a vacation in the Philippines! Quick question though. Is pawpaw and papaya the same fruit? Thanks in advance!

Can you put a full salmon fillet in between the middle layer with the coconut cream over it?

1:17 Fuaioku or Pawpaw? Is that unripe papaya?

Hhh eating with a knife is dangerous but savages been doing that for the longest time hhh i mean that in the most affectionate way🤣👍❤ Niue ki mua!

was he on samoan wedding?

Im sorry I have to disagree with you😬..Mangaia (an island in the Cook Islands) have the best taro, grown in the swamp as well as pa'i. Mangaia is also rocky with volcanic soil and we use volcanic rocks for our umu. The texture of taro grown in the swamp is different to taro grown in normal soil (pa'i). And we do have different kinds of taro, white, yellow, pink...we even have one we call mamio Niue...we also have a dish similar to the takihi (one of my favourites too) called roroi. It can be taro with coconut cream only, or a third ingredient can be added like pawpaw, kumara, ripe breadfruit and ripe bananas...😊.

fruit lasagna of the islands

Takahi's not really a favourite of mine but his one looked bomb af (:

Make takini my nan NIUE 683 🇳🇺🇳🇺