How do you like your Samoan Chop Suey? (Sapasui)
Based on Chinese chop suey, a “traditional” Samoan style chop suey – or sapasui...
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How to Serve Tea to a Samoan Chief – and Why it Matters
You may have noticed. Many Samoan families have a preference for arranging their living rooms in a...
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How to Greet a Samoan Matai (Chief)
The heartbeat of Samoan culture is love and respect, or fa’aaloalo. How we greet people is a...
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12 Alagaupu (Samoan Proverbs) about Family
A few years ago I told you about my grandfather’s api (notebook) full of alagaupu that I...
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Matai – How to become a Samoan Chief [Part 2]
This is the second part of our series on The Path to Becoming a Samoan Chief. Please read Part 1...
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20 Most Asked Questions About Samoa – Answered by Samoans
We’ve all seen it. You’re Googling something to do with Samoa and you see from the...
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15+ Samoan names for your lover (from old Samoan love songs)
What is your favourite loved up pet name for your significant other? It is babe? Baby? Bae? Honey?...
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Translating Naumati Lagona
Music has been a huge part of my life since, as a very young child, I couldn’t go to sleep...
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Samoana, Ala Mai: Translating Lota Nu’u
You know how at the end of a long Samoan (usually family) function, someone says the closing...
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The two Samoan languages
While I was slowly picking up Samoan from my family and friends, I’d hear references to...
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