What to eat in Malé
Maldivian food beyond the resort: mas huni for breakfast, garudhiya, short eats in a tea house, rihaakuru and palm toddy.

[ ] Eat mas huni for breakfast
    Smoked tuna shredded by hand with grated coconut, onion, chilli and lime, served with hot roshi flatbread. The country's leading breakfast and its most everyday dish.
[ ] Try garudhiya
    A clear broth of fresh tuna simmered with almost no spices, salt and a curry leaf. Served with rice, lime, onion and chilli, which you add to the bowl yourself.
[ ] Eat gulha
    Small fried dough balls filled with tuna, coconut and onion. The most recognisable of the short eats, taken several at a time with tea.
[ ] Try bajiya
    A triangular fried pastry with tuna, coconut and onion — the Maldivian relative of the samosa, though the filling is always fish. A mainstay of the hotaa counter.
[ ] Try kulhi boakibaa
    A dense savoury cake of rice, tuna and coconut, baked and cut into squares. Served cold and surprisingly filling for its size.
[ ] Try rihaakuru
    A thick dark paste of tuna stock reduced for hours: salty and concentrated. It is spread on roshi or mixed into rice, and in intensity it is the local answer to fish sauce.
[ ] Try mas riha fish curry
    Tuna in a coconut curry with spices, curry leaf and chilli — the spicier alternative to the clear garudhiya. Served with rice and roshi.
[ ] Eat fihunu mas
    A whole fish rubbed with a paste of chilli, garlic and spices and grilled over coals. On local islands it is cooked in the evening right by the water.
[ ] Get roshi
    A thin unleavened flatbread from the griddle that serves as both bread and cutlery. Baked in stacks and served hot with everything.
[ ] Try theluli mas
    Chunks of tuna fried dry with turmeric, chilli and onion. A dense snack eaten with rice or on its own, and it keeps well.
[ ] Try foni boakibaa
    A sweet rice and coconut milk pudding cake with rose water, baked until the top caramelises. Served cold, cut into squares.
[ ] Try bondibai
    A sweet rice porridge in coconut milk with rose water and cardamom, served cold. A festive dessert made for Ramadan and family occasions.
[ ] Try dhonkeyo kajuru
    Fried fritters of banana with rice flour and coconut: sweet and dense. Sold in the same hotaa alongside the savoury short eats.
[ ] Drink tea in a hotaa
    Strong black tea, often with condensed milk, drunk all day and especially with short eats. The hotaa tea house is the island's main social space.
[ ] Try raa palm toddy
    Fresh coconut palm sap collected from the flower stem in the morning: sweet, faintly fizzy and non-alcoholic while it is still fresh. Drunk the same day.

Checklist from Unload: https://unloads.me/c/food-male