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Sampling the local cuisine is a must when you visit Rabaul. Ingredients grown locally flourish in gardens created on beds of volcanic ash, as though they are on organic steroids.
The dish is cooked using hot stones placed among chicken or fish, a local vegetable, spices, and coconut cream all sealed up in wrapped banana leaves.The warm, ashy volcanic earth is a favourite spot for megapodes, birds also known as mound-builders, to lay and incubate their eggs. First came the plantation masters in the 1800s led by a woman — the pioneering Emma Forsayth known as Queen Emma of the South Pacific, who established vast coconut plantations here.
Not widely known is that Australia's first casualties in World War I fell at Bita Paka, about an hour down the coast from the town of Rabaul. Today it's the site of a moving war memorial that is well worth a visit.
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