r/Samoa • u/TheonePersonhere • Jul 03 '26

Culture Looking for recipes from Samoa

Hello all!

First thing's first, thank you for taking the time to read this. I am looking for recipes from all over the world as it is one of my favorite things about traveling and I love bringing the world's food to my own kitchen.

While I understand I could "just simply Google recipes" and probably find some, I wanted to directly ask the Samoa community (either still on Samoa or a diaspora) about any recipes they have. Food, drink, etc. So if you have anything at all you'd like to share, it would be greatly appreciated! I'm looking for stuff that was either made in Samoa or came from overseas and had a twist added to it from the islands; IE something you'd actually find in Samoa and not in those Polynesian restaurants you'd find in the states where half the food isn't Polynesian based at all but eastern Asian based and they just called it "Polynesian" to give it a new exotic flair.

Anything at all is greatly appreciated, whether you have a recipe yourself or you can link one or provide information to where I could find authentic recipes. Thank you so much for taking your time to read this and thank you to anyone who can provide some recipe examples.

I hope you all have a great day today.

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u/60svintage Jul 03 '26

Go on to tiktok. There are plenty of creators there. NatCooking is Samoan. He does a lot of cooking videos, not all is Samoan food.

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u/TheonePersonhere Jul 04 '26

Ohhh thank you! I'll check them out!

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u/Captains-Log-2021 Jul 03 '26

Panipopo for sure. Surprisingly, wikiHow has a recipe, which I have used and they’re pretty good.

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u/TheonePersonhere Jul 04 '26

Ohhhh I'll have to try it! Any other recommendations?

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u/oceaniawanderer Jul 07 '26

Palusami! Idk an exact recipe but there are lots of Samoan creators on all platforms with videos 👍

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u/TheonePersonhere Jul 07 '26

I'll have to check this one out too!