An estimated 2000 people found out last night at the annual Otago University Students' Association international food festival.
At the Brunei stand, long queues formed for two of the country's popular dishes, pisang babujah, a dessert of pastry-wrapped deep fried bananas served with a choice of peanut butter and coconut paste sauce or chocolate sauce, and roti john, a boiled egg sandwich with mayonnaise and chilli.
Brunei, sandwiched between Malaysia and the South China Sea, has a population of about 400,000. About 30 government-funded students were at the University of Otago this year studying medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and physiotherapy, student Nabila Serudin said.
About a dozen of them had worked for two days to prepare food for the festival.
Brunei's food was spicy, and similar to that of Malaysia, she said.
Pisang babujahs had become "famous" at the food festival, she said.
"Everyone loves them. They are always sold out. We make about 100 of each variety and it is first come, first served."
Food was available from 11 of the OUSA's international clubs and societies - Taiwan, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore and India.
The festival, believed to be the largest in the country organised by students, was held as part of Reorientation Week, the social introduction to the second academic semester.
