Samoa

= Samoa = = // (molly mason) // =

===** News Feed: **Samoa's hopes of World Cup quarter-final qualification has past, when they succumbed 5 - 13 to World champions Springbok, in Auckland on Friday. After a bruising battle, Samoa stayed proud and showed respect for their opponents win, congratulating them before departing.===

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 * //Samoa's Overall Results:// **

**to New Zealand.** **Samoa RWC Team Uniform** = Cuisine =
 * Samoa is playing in Pool D, with Namibia, Fiji, Wales and South Africa. Their first match will be against Namibia on the 14th of September. Rotorua has been chosen to provide Team Samoa's official Rugby World Cup 2011 welcome**
 * Samoan food is not heavily spiced, but is characterized by the use of coconut milk and cream. Samoa doesn't have an actual traditional dish, but a variety of foods including taro, breadfruit, bananas, coconut, fish and shellfish, chicken and pork. A popular savory dish is //palusam//i, which consists** **of a parcel of coconut cream wrapped in taro leaves, baked in the umu (an earth oven). This is eaten entirety including the leaves, and is rich in taste due to its coconut content. A sweet dish is usually different fruits and natural juices.**
 * If a team player came to my house, I would serve them a family favourite like curry and a steam pudding. Just something different for them to try.**