Laplap and rice! In Malekula

After church they had made a big laplap dinner for the branch in our honor! They made one of wild yam mash with beef and coconut melek and island cabbage in the middle you dip it in. All baked in banana leaves over the fire during church. The other was made of some banana mash bake with another kind of meat and the coconut melek dip in the middle....all with huge amounts of rice! I just couldn't eat it all. They love their laplap....

They make laplap on all the islands but it is a bit different everywhere. Can't say I am going to ask for the recipe right yet.