Pacific / Tonga

Celebrating Tongan Language Week with a mukbang feast

10:15 am on 9 September 2022

Central to all Pacific Island celebrations, is faith, family and food.

This year in celebration of Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e lea faka-Tonga - Tongan Language Week, Pacific Media Network's Agnes Tupou is joined by KaiNow founder and food lover Robb Nai in a mukbang-style mini Tongan feast.

KaiNow is an online Facebook group where members discuss and share their love of food, usually in the form of a live broadcast of themselves enjoying or cooking a meal. The group was created in 2018 by Nai, and has amassed a large community of food lovers from all over Aotearoa and the world.

Watch Tupou and Nai indulge in a hearty Tongan spread, with a side of banter in their mother tongue: