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Published: December 25th 2006
Mostly we eat the local food but we have been trying to go for cheap English breakfast, pizza and pasta, but found that this is rarely worth it since it is more expensive and not really close to what you'd expect. Unless you have oodles of money to spend, which makes food good in any country, I would stick to the local cuisine. It is good, cheap and everywhere. The Mauritian people love their "snack" and the people making it are good at it. For 40mur (1.39cad, 7.50nrk, £0.64) you can get a tasty kebab, fried noodles with chicken, or some stir fried rise. The also sell yummy
Roti for 7mur (0.24cad, 1.30nkr, £0.10) an Indian round flat thin bread with your choice of filling. This local food is typically sold from a bike, a little portable kitchen or a stall. Cheap and Good.
If you like to sit down for a meal we like Souvenir Snack in Troux Aux Biches for good value food. Just next to the public beach and just down our street.
Now I am sure there are some more good restaurants to go for dinner, we have just not explored them yet. I will
post the restaurants as we find them. 😊
Oh and don’t forget to get a fresh perfectly ripe pineapple from one of the guys with boxes in the back of their bikes. 15mru for a half - already peeled and ready to eat holding it as an ice cream. 😊
So what is local food? Since the majority of the people are Indo-Mauritian there is a lot Indian food available. The curries are fantastic! They also do a lot of fish dishes as you can imagine.
Port Louis has a good size Chinatown which is a bustling neighborhood with small shops and oriental restaurants, We went to a
Restaurant Canton with generous portion for a good price. The place is very busy at lunch time, but mostly by the locals so we take that as a good sign!
The French also brought in some food habits: You can start with a good coffee and a croissant for breakfast and then have the French baguette with all the other meals. 😊
Food Shopping There are stalls selling fruit & vegetables and fish along roads, they many small shops that has mostly everything you need and then you have the grand supermarkets where they have a selection just like any large supermarket in Europe/North America.
There is a fun and lively market in Port Louis. We buy fruit and vegetables, but so far we have been staying away from the meat and fish.
One thing though... There is no fresh milk in the shops, or we have not found it yet. But you get used to the long life UHT milk as long as it is cold.
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Lars
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Christmas greetings and New Year's dive
Hey you two crazy guys, I have been reading your travel blog these last days and it is great that you keep me (and all of your other friends) so constantly updated. I am in Hamburg now with Linde and going up north (Kiel) to Plüg tonight. Even if it is already the 26th, I wish you a merry Christmas - the biggest present you have made to yourself: freedom! Also, and I am quite sure you have already thought about it, you'll probably take a dive to greet the New Year and have an underwater celebration this year, at least I'd try to do this. All the best and talk to you soon, Lars