Curated by Condé Nast Traveler with Oceania Cruises | Featured Editor’s Tip: Skip the restaurant and go trucking in Papeete. Head to the food trucks, or roulottes as they’re called here, for a cheap and cheerful alfresco dinner. They’re scattered around the island but one popular spot to scout them is Place Vai'ete (Vai’ete Square) by the Papeete waterfront, where the grills fire up at 6 p.m. daily. Pizza and burgers are always options, but the Tahitian-Chinese roulettes tell a fuller story of the island’s unique cultural cuisine — influenced by French colonization and Chinese immigration in the 1800s. Chez Foung Yune and Roulotte Kim serve fusion dishes such as poisson cru à la Chinoise (a Chinese variation of the classic poisson cru with rice vinegar and ginger) and ma’a tinito, a combination of pork, beans, and macaroni.

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