The foods usually provided include coffee (simple black coffee), black tea (bags, 2 rofiyas per serving), hettika (1-3 rofiyas each), sandwiches, and croissants wait. Some restaurants also provide portions of rice during lunch time, including fish curry, chicken curry, vegetable soup, etc., and each portion costs 20-25 rofiya.
Salads, sausages, omelettes are all available, as well as various tropical fruits that can’t even be named, colorful juices and desserts for everyone to try.
In addition to a variety of cold dishes, hot dishes, and desserts, the buffets at noon and evening also add some delicacies from various countries every day, such as Italian PIZZA, French steaks, Japanese sashimi, etc. There are very few Chinese meals, mainly because there are not many Chinese guests. A seafood feast, accompanied by the setting sun, rich wine, and soft sea breeze, savor this paradise on earth.
Maldive food has typical tropical scenery. In addition to being full of local color, authentic Maldivian food cannot be separated from the sea. Due to religious habits, Maldivians do not eat pork, and the beef they need needs to be imported from abroad, which is expensive. The meat they often eat is poultry and mutton, and they also often eat eggs. Fish is the most eaten food. They like to eat meat, fish and vegetable rice with pungent aromatic condiments, as well as starchy foods such as sweet potatoes and taro. Tropical fruits and vegetables, breadfruit, coconuts, pineapples and more are available year-round. There are fried fish, fish curry and fish soup at hand, so you can enjoy fish with every meal.
Some famous local delicacies include fried fish balls, goldfish and coconut-cooked Gula, spicy fish cakes (kuliboakiba), and coconut milk and rice pudding (Funiboakiba). foniboakiba) and a sweet milk drink called kirusarbat.
Dhufaaechetai is a chewable snack popular in the Maldives Islands. The ingredients of this snack include betel nut, betel leaf, cloves, sour fruits, tobacco leaves, etc. This snack is a daily snack for islanders. In the tea shops on the streets and alleys, you can also taste scalding hot tea and delicious pastries and snacks. The famous local drink is Toddy, a sweet and fragrant drink made from the juice of palm tree trunks.
Local people also like to chew coconut fruit pieces rolled into areca coconut leaves and a small amount of lime slurry, so their teeth are often dyed black.
The food in the Maldives is quite similar to Indian food, but it is not as spicy as Indian food. The taste is mainly sweet and light, and the food is mainly chicken, mutton and fish. Although the fishing industry is developed, the cooking method of fish is relatively simple. Fish is often fried and grilled, which is very different from the traditional taste of Chinese people.
Maldive food has typical tropical scenery. In addition to being full of local color, authentic Maldivian food is also inseparable from the sea. Due to religious habits, Maldivians do not eat pork, and the beef they need must be imported from abroad, which is expensive. The meat they often eat is poultry and mutton, and they also often eat eggs. Fish is the most eaten food. They like to eat meat, fish and vegetable rice with pungent aromatic condiments, as well as starchy foods such as sweet potatoes and taro. Tropical fruits and vegetables, breadfruit, coconuts, pineapples and more are available year-round. There are fried fish, fish curry and fish soup at hand, so you can enjoy fish with every meal.
The locals do not drink alcohol at all. The capital Male only allows bars with non-alcoholic drinks, and all bars are located in hotels. The Maldivian Lady (The Maldive Lady) is a strong and mellow local cocktail. The bars on each tourist island have different recipes to prepare this cocktail. Don’t miss this non-alcoholic drink when you visit the Maldives.