Malé Street Food

5 dishes in Maldives

5 street foods from Malé, Maldives: Kavaabu, Bis Keemiya, Kulhi Boakibaa, Masroshi and Hunihakuru Fathafolhi. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Malé

🧆 Tea-Shop Short Eat · Rice-Lentil Fritter Kavaabu Kavaabu works cooked lentils into the mix alongside smoked tuna and coconut, giving it a firmer, heartier bite than the pure fish-and-dough short… Kavaabu are deep-fried fritters made from smoked tuna, cooked lentils, grated coconut, onion, curry leaves and chili, bound together and shaped into small rounds before frying to a crisp… 🥟 Tea-Shop Short Eat · Egg-Cabbage Pastry Bis Keemiya It's one of the few hedhikaa items usually made with no fish at all — just hard-boiled egg, cabbage and onion folded into a deep-fried pastry. Bis keemiya is a folded, 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… 🐟 Tea-Shop Short Eat · Baked Fish Cake Kulhi Boakibaa Unlike almost everything else on the hedhikaa tray, kulhi boakibaa is traditionally baked rather than fried — the tuna-and-rice mixture is pressed… Smoked tuna, grated coconut, cooked rice, onion and chili are mixed into a thick batter, pressed into a tin and baked until firm and golden, then sliced into diamonds. It's a hedhikaa-tray… Tea-Shop Short Eat · Stuffed Flatbread Masroshi It's built from the same mas huni filling Maldivians spoon onto their breakfast roshi — just sealed inside the dough and cooked on a dry griddle… Roshi dough is rolled thin, filled with mas huni — shredded smoked tuna, grated coconut, onion, chili and lime — folded over, and cooked on a dry griddle until lightly charred. Malé tea… 🥥 Tea-Shop Sweet · Coconut Syrup Parcel Hunihakuru Fathafolhi Its syrup is dhiyaa hakuru, made by boiling down the same fresh coconut-palm sap that toddy tappers collect for raa, the islands' traditional palm… Shredded young coconut flesh is folded with dhiyaa hakuru — coconut-palm sap boiled into a dark, treacly syrup — and a touch of pandan, then wrapped into a small folded parcel. It's the…

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