what are some traditional new zealand food?!

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There's lamb, pork and cervena (venison), salmon, crayfish (lobster), Bluff oysters, paua (abalone), mussels, scallops, pipis and tuatua (both are types of New Zealand shellfish), kumara (sweet potato), kiwifruit, tamarillo and pavlova, the national dessert.

One immediately thinks of Hangi. This is a traditional Māori way of cooking where the food is wrapped in leaves and baked in a hole in the ground.

Pakeha (ie. non-Māori) food tends to be variations on the cuisine of the mother country. So in much the same way as Chicken Tikka Masala is the archetypical food of England, so you could make an argument for Thai Green Curry as New Zealand's finest. Meanwhile you have all the standard English grub, roast beef, roast lamb (especially lamb) with all the trimmings.

Fish and chips is a favourite using New Zealand fish such as Snapper, Dory and Hoki.

Pāua, a shellfish similar to abalone, is a New Zealand speciality. Many fish and chip shops do pāua fritters.

But I would say the thing that New Zealand does best is the pies. There are universal with most food outlets serving them and most are very good. Even cheap pies have real meat. The pie filled with brown sludge containing nondescript gristle pieces is unknown here. The distinctly Kiwi take is the meat and cheese pie. This is just a standard meat pie with a bit of strong cheese in it. I don't like it myself but they are very popular.

http://www.maorifood.com/hangi.htm
http://www.3news.co.nz/Who-ate-all-the-p…
http://wellingtonista.com/days-of-our-pi…

Roasted Europeans. But that's illegal nowadays.