Johnny Mah
Not the Smiths guitarist. (and not his full name)
A fine member of the ICU team.
Family back in Rotorua.
John was very welcoming. He very kindly offered to show us round his family's place back in Roto Vegas. His mum worked in the Maori centre and he gave us a tour and introduced us to his family. Rotorua is known for its natural hot springs, bubbling mud pools etc and also for it's strong maori heritage. The well known maori way of cooking is the hangi. Rocks are heated up on a fire and then buried with wet sacking and parcels of food. The food is then steamed over several hours.
In Rotorua they've modified this tactic. John's whanau are all based around this area with loads of the bubbling pools. They've altered the flow of the water over the years to create communal baths and cooking vents where hangis are done in covered steam pits rather than the usual hot rock method. John went out of his way to prepare one of these meals and we called by to pick it up after we met his mum.
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