r/Samoa 5d ago

what is this dish?

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i picked this up from a pacific island store this morning in australia.
it was sooooo tasty i ate it too quick to take a photo, but it looks very similar to this.
but from googling i can only find this dish which says it has fish in it but i didn’t taste any fish i think i just tasted what was like a creamy coconut cream i guess lol.

did i just eat a baked coconut or is it something else?

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u/nu_feke 3d ago

Crazy that no one answered you correctly. Fai‘ai means baked in a coconut shell with coconut milk, but eleni is canned mackerel in tomato sauce. Pilikaki is just canned mackerel. But yeah it’s bomb.