Did you know that Havelock, roughly halfway between the cities of Nelson and Blenheim in the northern part of South Island, is the world capital of green-lipped mussels?
Well, it is, and I convinced Estelle that we HAD to stop there for a bowl. She even tried some and loved 'em. We split a fairly large pot of steamed mussels in a cream/chili/coriander sauce, cost $16NZD. Soooo fresh. We were the only customers for early lunch today but I could imagine this area out back being full of holiday traffic. In fact, the cook told us they go through a tonne of mussels during their peak season of Christmas to New Year's.
A little further down the road we visited a sustainable zero-carbon etc. organic winery owned and funded by a guy who made most of his money establishing the mussel industry in Marlborough Sound, so that was interesting.
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