Coorg is the home of authentic Kodava cuisine. Like most areas in and around the town, the platter revolves around the staple rice. A speciality of the area is
Sannakki, a fragrant kind of rice. Non-vegetarian preparations of pork, meat and fish are also popular.
Other local favorites include
Akki Oti (Rice chapatis), a huge variety of
Pattus (a steamed dish),
Pulvas, preparations of pork, dried fish, crab meat,
Baimbale Curry (a preparation of Bamboo Shoots),
Kumm Curry (a preparation of wild mushrooms) and
Chekke curry (made using unripe jackfruit). Also find a wide range of teasing chutneys here, as well as unique pickles of pork, fish, mushrooms, bitter orange and tender bamboo.
A number of restaurants also serve many vegetarian dishes along with typical Indian, Chinese, Continental and Tibetan cuisines as well as popular South-Indian cuisine consisting of dishes like
dosa, vada, idli, sambhar and rasam.
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