Must-eat tender squid tubes, over a hundred special side dishes

Restaurant: Stingray Cafe (Maafushi)
Address: Ziyaaraiy Magu Road, Maafushi, Maldives

《🇲🇻Maldives Food Tour 5️⃣》

Another biggest feature of the Maldives is that all citizens are Islamic, in addition to 5 prayers a day 🙏, each island will have a mosque for them to pray, and every Friday is "Cuma", basically many public services, restaurants, shops will be suspended, than the people have a rest, collective worship time 🕌, so Plan itinerary must pay attention 👀

8-90% of the people seen on the street are men, because women rarely go out, and stipulate that women must wear a veil and cover 🧕🏾, but times have changed, generally younger local women will not be so strict, but if you have the opportunity to go to the Maldives, both men and women remember not to dress too revealing, respect the local culture ah🤓

Maafushi's Stingray Cafe @stingraybeachnn is opened near a bunch of Souvenir shops🐚. After shopping, it's best to sit down and have a meal😋. The restaurant has two floors. Sitting upstairs is like eating in a tree house. It feels quite good, but in exchange there are many mosquitoes and flies flying around🪰

✝️炸鱿鱼管（MVR135）
You can't eat devil fish here, but there are many choices of squid🦑, this fried squid roll is wrapped with a lot of mixed vegetables, it tastes a bit like our Hong Kong fried squid with soy sauce, with onions🧅, three-color peppers🫑, carrots🥕, fried quite tasty, great with rice👍. There are also some meat pellets in it, but it must not be in the pork, because the Islamists cannot eat pork, so the presence of pork will not be seen in any local restaurant

✝️蒙古牛肉配米饭（MVR135）
This plate of Mongolian beef is fried with secret seafood sauce, soy sauce and chili 🌶️, in addition to the beef cubes there are many onions and various vegetables, rich and not spicy, for me it is salty, and too juicy to eat very heavy, but if mixed with rice to eat is really good, but I choose I'm eating Fried Squid Tube better 🤣

In addition to devil fish and hawksbill turtles, the Maldives also has Nurse Shark, Coral Reef 🪸, dolphins and other different marine life 🐬

🇲🇻 Travel Tip 1: Hong Kong dollar to Maldivian currency (MVR) is about 1 to 1.97 (e.g. this meal MVR332.37 is about HKD169), in addition basically all restaurants charge US dollars, but you have to ask what the exchange rate is 😎

🇲🇻Travel Tip 2: 10% service charge for local food in the Maldives, and 6% Goods and Services Tax (from January 1, 2023 will increase to 8%), calculate your budget before eating🤓

🇲🇻Travel Tip 3: After sitting down, the restaurant will usually give you bottled water, if you don't need it, remember to speak up, because you have to charge 😛

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