Saturday 12 November 2016

Maldives : the islander's food

Upon researching and study on the cost of living in Maldives, we found out that it may be a bit expensive to dine in there. The average food there is around 15usd per meal per person there. Thus we thought of bringing our own can and dried food there.

A week before departure, we agreed to take extra 25kg luggage add-on upon check in per couple just to make sure that we brought enough food (rice, instant noodle, canned mackerel, sambal paste, beef floss, sambal hitam, ready-to-eat Brahims prepacked meals, hard boiled eggs, soy sauce) together with our snorkeling equipment and not to forget rice cooker. Lol. However, we thought that we may overestimate the need that much of food since during activities, the lunch or the dinner mostly is included. So this is the summary of our meals for each day:

Picture taken by our traveling buddies FZ


Day 2

Breakfast at Off Day Inn restaurant for continental breakfast and juice

Day 2 breakfast
Snack of 8 slices of bread with chicken floss and srikaya spread plus a container of fried maggi mee in slow boat to Maafushi.

Late lunch with hometown food (1 can of mackerel in tomato sauce,beef floss, egg and rice with special sambal hitam brought by Mrs FZ).

Day 2 lunch



Dinner served by hotel after night fishing. Grilled fish ( 4 large fish) with tomato salsa and white rice.

Day 2 dinner

Day 3

Breakfast at shadow palm - continental breakfast and juice.

Lunch provided during the snorkelling. 4 slices of tuna @ chicken sandwich, juice and fresh fruits.

Early dinner prepared from food brought from hometown (rice with mackerel in tomato sauce, hard-boiled egg with sambal, beef floss and sambal hitam).

Day 3 dinner


Day 4

Breakfast at shadow palm - continental breakfast and juice.

Lunch buffet at Adaaran Vadoo Prestige Resort during aadaran island excursion. They served variety of food selection (there were beef, chicken, fish, soup, macaroni, white rice, fried rice, salads, mix vegetables,mashed potatoes, cake, pudding, and fruit). Most of the food served were delicious except for dessert. I don't really know what they were called but it definitely looks like blueberry cake. It had weird smell, taste and texture, but their caramel pudding is yum!

Day 4 buffet lunch

Late dinner prepared from food brought from hometown. (rice, Brahim's instant dishes and beef floss). The best part was Mr Nasseer also shared his spicy Bangladeshi curry which we could not catch it's name.

Day 5

Breakfast at Shadow Palm - mashuni (tuna with grated coconut and chilli) with roshi (fresh baked chapati).

Day 5 breakfast

Lunch from Brahim's prepack ready meal (Nasi Arab Kambing) brought from hometown in H78 hotel.

Day 5 lunch. terribly sorry for the  blurry picture

Dinner maggi curry mee brought from hometown.

Day 6

Buffet breakfast in H78 hotel. They served quite variety of food (toasted bread with jam, pancake, omelette, mashuni with roshi, instant noodles, cereal, cake,yogurt drinks, milk, coffee and different  flavor of tea).

Day 6 buffet breakfast

Lunch at Asiana Cafe nearby for local cuisine. We tried their whole roasted chicken, green curry tuna, and mushroom black pepper beef. They were all pleasurable.

Day 6 maldivian lunch



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