Fijian Food from Market to Table | Culinary Colorado

Lautoka market vendors sells the foods that Bulou cooks with total authenticity

The market of Lautoka, a town diagonally across Fiji’s Viti Levu island from the capital at Suva, exerted a magnetic on me and my four colleagues heading to Bulou’s Eco-Resort.

We stopped “for 10 minutes” and reluctantly emerged something like 40 minutes later, having met vendors (“Bula!” was a welcome not to encourage us to buy), gazed a familiar and unfamiliar produce and were told what this or that root vegetable was called and perhaps how it was prepared.

This enormous mostly-indoor market is open daily except Sunday. Most vendors have tables, but others sell off blankets on the edge of the hall or outside. I have heard that it is Fiji’s largest market — and if it, I’m guessing it’s close to the biggest. Below are some market images, mostly uncaptioned because even stretching our10-minute plan, we moved too fast for photos and notes.

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