Real Pasifik - Series Two

...amazingly over 70 percent of food for tourists is imported. Locals are losing income, agriculture is suffering, and tourists are missing out on one of the world’s great cuisines. Robert wants to change that.

– From the show's introduction

With octopus available on the reef right off Volivoli Resort, it's a no-brainer for my dishes...

– Presenter Robert Oliver, in episode one

This is the furthest I've ever walked to get a vegetable!

– Presenter Robert Oliver on bush-shopping for watercress, in episode one

You can prepare Tanna soup anywhere: in the bush, in the garden, by the beach. It's real village life.

– Bethel Village local Mayline Dan, episode two (Vanuatu) 

These guys are the Italians of the Pacific: they love their food as much as they love their families.

– Robert Oliver on two of the most important things in Samoan culture, at the start of episode three

The relationship I have with my vaka is basically she's my wife . . .  If I look after her, she looks after my needs, she'll provide. Yeah, you don't look after your wife, she's not gonna to be too happy.

– Niuean fisherman Taumafai Fuhiniu on the importance of his vaka/waka, in episode four

When I say to people, they would ask, 'Where's this honey from?' And when I say, 'It's Beqa,' straightaway they want to buy it, because they know the environment is clean, the colour is good.

– Api Kurusiga on her natural bush honey from the Fijian island of Beqa, early in episode five

Niuean fishermen are famous for going out in tiny boats and catching huge fish. 

– Presenter Robert Oliver, in episode four

In a world of negative headlines, these simple things like having someone show you how they cook the food from their homeland, it just gives you a real feeling of hope.

– Presenter Robert Oliver tastes Maquesan home cooking, in episode six

I would have loved to come here, if the waves were a little smaller than this. 

– Fijian Api Kurusiga laughs about the waves while joining Robert on a boat trip, early in episode five

I find Pacific Island food in my family's kitchens. I'm not too sure where you would find it outside of somebody's home, so you should grant yourself lucky if you know somebody who's Polynesian or you come from a Polynesian background. 

– Samoan-Tongan chef Maria Hunt on the unique cuisine of the islands, early in episode seven

People come to Auckland from the Pacific Islands, but they bring their food with them. And it's a way of bringing a little piece of home with you. And it's a way of in some ways staying at home.

– Presenter Robert Oliver on the multicultural Pacific cuisine of Auckland, in episode seven