Foods, Drinks & Nightlife

Foods

  • Western, Thai, Chinese and continental food is available in major hotels and restaurants.
  • Local dishes are usually far better and more exotic.
  • Curries of many types around, cooked with proper spices and hot curry powders, including local Rezala, Korma, Bhoona and Masala Gosht, mutton, beef, Chicken, fish and prawns, Chicken Baghdadi, Chicken Afghani, Chicken Kashmiri, Chicken Tikka, shutli kabab, boti kabab, and a wide variety of fish curries should be tried.
  • Rice in the form of pulao, biriani (with rice & mutton or chicken) and khichuri are available in any reasonable restaurant.
  • If you do not care for rice dishes will try plain parata, mughlai parata, or naan that go very well with different curries.
  • Seafood and sweet-water fish are also available.
  • Fish-lovers should not miss fresh bhetki, smoked hilsa, chingri (lobster/king prawns) malaikari, and Prawn dopyaza.

DRINKS

  • Chai - the milky sweet tea (sometimes with zinger) available almost everywhere.
  • Lassi - the refreshing yogurt drink give you different taste.
  • Green coconut water is a fine, pure, safe, tasty and refreshing drink.
  • International soft drinks, like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, 7-up, Sun Crest and RC cola are also available.
  • Hard drinks are available in selected big hotels and restaurants.

Note: On Fridays drinking in public areas is not recommended for foreigners.

DESSERTS

  • Misti Dhohi – Sweetened yogurt.
  • Halua – Common dessert wide ranging from egg halua to carrot, sooji or almond, pistachio, wheat cream, nuts and many more.
  • Sandesh – Milk based dessert.
  • Zorda – Sweetened rice with nuts.
  • Firni – Rice flour cooked in milk, sugar and flavoring.
  • Rasgolla & Kalojam – Popular milk based desserts. Made with sugar, flour and ghee.
  • Rosmalai – Round sweets floating in thick milk.
  • Pitha – Blanket term for cakes or pastries with specific varieties like takti, andosha, pufi, chitoi, dhupi, bhafa and pua.

Nightlife

Bangladesh is a very strict place for enjoying the nightlife as a Muslim country. It’s not open just like other Asian destination like Bangkok, Singapore or Goa. However, opportunity is not rare. If you are looking for any bar then you can get bar in special places in Cox’s Bazar for example Hotel Seagull, Sea Palace or some others. You can also enjoy local made drinks. Heart break news for the western tourist as no nightclub and Spa facilities are available in here; though DJ is available inside some Hotels at special days.