Tea-Shop Short Eat · Egg-Cabbage Pastry
Bis Keemiya
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It's one of the rare hedhikaa items built with no fish at all — just hard-boiled egg, cabbage and onion folded into a deep-fried pastry, making it the tea shop's default vegetarian short eat.
Bis keemiya is a semi-circular deep-fried pastry filled with hard-boiled egg, sautéed cabbage, onion and spices, sealed in a simple flour dough before frying to a crisp shell. Sold alongside gulha and bajiya on Malé's hedhikaa trays, it stands out for skipping tuna entirely.
Why it's made this way: With nearly every other short eat built around dried or smoked tuna, bis keemiya's egg-and-vegetable filling carved out a distinct, meat-free option within Malé's otherwise fish-heavy tea-shop repertoire.
Roughly what's in it
220kcal
6gprotein
26gcarbs
10gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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