My friend, Sone, lives not too far from our campus, and as my co-worker, Anna, and I were walking through the village the other day we noticed she was frying up just what we were craving - scones! It takes a while in PNG to get used to the fact that "scones" aren't the nice fluffy biscuits served with tea like back home. A scone here is a basic recipe of flour and water, usually formed into balls and then deep fried. You can buy them pretty much anywhere you go in town, and in any village that you might pass through, although different areas have their own twist (like throwing in some green onions). What Anna and I found Sone frying up this day is, in my opinion, the most bazaar variation of the scone. Have you ever tried deep-fried battered bread? That's pretty much what a "bread scone" is. And oddly enough it totally works!
Sone's granddaughter sleeps on the floor as Sone fries up the scones. As you drive into town you'll see men and women selling a wide variety of things along the road, like scones, home-made cigarettes, bananas, yarn, bubblegum, etc.
Bread scones prove that you can deep fry just about anything and it'll taste amazing.
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