laplap
{{Short description|Vanuatu National Dish}}
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Laplap (sometimes incorrectly spelled lap lap) is the national dish of Vanuatu.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2008/s2528790.htm |title=The secrets of Vanuatu's national dish, the Lap Lap |date=2009-03-29 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226143443/http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2008/s2528790.htm |archive-date=2022-12-26}} Laplap is prepared by grating breadfruit, bananas, taro or yam roots into a vegetable paste.{{Cite news|url=http://www.vanuatutraveller.com/lap-lap/|title=Anyone for some Lap-Lap ? {{!}} Vanuatuan Cuisine.|date=2016-04-13|work=Vanuatu Traveller {{!}} vanuatutraveller.com|access-date=2018-03-07|language=en-AU}} The paste is then wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in an underground stone oven, with fresh coconut cream. Meats like pork, beef, chicken or flying fox can be added.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10490498 Vanuatu: Laplap up some tropical flavour] (+photos)
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Etymology
The word laplap (spelled in one word) comes from Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu.See [https://books.google.fr/books?id=cZoVLi0NJ0QC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA147&vq=laplap&dq=bislama%20dictionary&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q=laplap&f=false entry laplap], p.147 of: Crowley, Terry. 2003. A new Bislama dictionary, 2d ed. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. It finds its origin in some of the Oceanic languages of the country: e.g. Dorig lablab {{IPA|wwo|laᵐblaᵐb|}}, Nume labalam {{IPA|tgs|laᵐbalam|}}, both reflecting a Proto-Torres-Banks form *laᵐbalaᵐba.
The majority of indigenous languages of Vanuatu, however, name the dish using other roots. For example, Mota loko {{IPA|mtt|loko|}} and Raga loḡo {{IPA|lml|loᵑɡo|}} reflect a Proto-North-Central Vanuatu etymon *loᵑgo;{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Ross |title=Leo Tuai: A comparative lexical study of North and Central Vanuatu languages |date=2009 |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |location=Canberra |issn=1448-8310 |doi=10.15144/PL-603 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |hdl=1885/146751 |isbn=978-0-85883-600-6 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146751}} Hiw tegōv {{IPA|hiw|təɣoβ|}}, Lemerig ’ëgëv {{IPA|lrz|ʔœɣœβ|}} and Mwotlap na-tgop {{IPA|mlv|natɣɔp|}} reflect Proto-Torres-Banks *taɣoβe;See [https://marama.huma-num.fr/Lex/Mwotlap/t.htm#%E2%93%94t%5Bo%5Dgop entry t‹o›gop] in A. François’ [http://alex.francois.online.fr/AF-dict-Mwotlap_e.htm Mwotlap online dictionary]. Araki has ureeje {{IPA|akr|uɾeet͡ʃe|}},See [https://marama.huma-num.fr/Lex/Araki/u.htm#%E2%93%94ureeje entry ureeje] in A. François’ [https://alex.francois.online.fr/AF-Araki-dict.htm Araki online dictionary]. Tamambo has wewe, etc.
Main recipes
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