Traditional & Seafood | Cox's Bazar

Hey guys, I am back again,
It was a great week and here I am back to the rush. I was on a trip for the last five days and by the grace of Almighty it was one of the best ones so far, many more are yet to come if He wills.

No trip is fulfilled without some good food. Trying different types of food is the key to having a great trip. I was in Cox's Bazar, the longest sea beach in the world, situated in my own country Bangladesh. So the varieties of food there are countless, but we thought of going with all of the famous ones to try them and figure out the hype. So let's break it.

Taste of Traditional Foods

Look at this platter, this one is a mouth-watering dish for any Bengali. Do you see that five types of food on one plate? Those are called bhorta, mostly smashed foods of different ingredients, we took one platter of five bhorta, and among them, there were, smashed potatoes, smashed tomato, smashed beans, eggplant, and the other one was made from dried fish. Just look at the plate with plain rice, this is Bengali's signature dish. It would have been a perfect one if there was hilsa, but we didn’t as hilsa is available all over the country, we decided to take Coral fish and Loitta fish as we are in the realm of sea and these will be super fresh and delicious here. As you can see there is a curry of Coral fish, and it was super delicious. Also, the loitta fry is crispy and tasty.

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Paya Haleem

The second most famous food we tried is this one, Paya Haleem. This is also one very popular dish among the Bengalis. But this particular paya haleem is famous in Cox's Bazar as one of the restaurants here serves the best one in the country. Paya means the legs of the cow, and haleem is a stew made of meat, lentils, and pounded wheat along with different types of spices into a thick paste. This is a great evening snack. Mostly eaten with paratha or naan, however, you want it. We took one bowl of haleem and one garlic naan, both of them were more than enough for two people. This one also exceeded our expectations.

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Trying Seafoods

We are in the realm of the sea and won't try proper seafood? Nope, that can't happen. So this time, we planned to try seafood for our dinner.

There were lots of crabs, octopus, squid, lobster, coral, tuna, salmon, and a few other types of seafood to try. We have already tried Coral and Loitta, so we want to go for the other ones. Now there was a dilemma, what if we take something in large quantities and end up disliking it? Come on, these are seafood, that might not be appealing to our taste buds and that's normal.

So, we played the safe bet as our first time, we took a seafood platter that was named as Fried Cashew Nut Rice with Spicy Seafoods. It was a wise move and I would say, we were planning for our dinner with less damage to the wallet where a huge chance of food waste was present. After going with this platter, we had almost seven to eight types of seafood items to try altogether. More than the items we could have bought individually. All the items were delicious except one or two that I couldn’t eat after trying once. Now I know what's appealing to me or not.

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So this is it, throughout the trip, we tried many more dishes too but these were the most anticipated ones and exceeded our expectations. So I could say, food-wise it was quite a satisfying trip that we had and wish to go back in the future for sure.