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The local market, just a couple of minutes' walk up the road from the fish market and also on the beach road, is a place where you will find Maldivians from all over the country, in Male' to sell produce from their own islands. Here the pace is slower and the atmosphere more peaceful. The atmosphere is enhanced by the pale green light that filters through the fine green mesh that adorns all its windows and doors. Each stall is filled with a variety of local products mainly from the islands. Here you will find different kinds of local vegetables, fruits and yams, packets of sweetmeat, nuts and breadfruit chips, bottles of home made sweets and pickles and bunches of bananas hanging on coir ropes from ceiling beams. One particular item that you might find of interest is a very Maldivian concoction, the rihaakuru, which is the boiled-down version of clear tuna soup. Rihaakuru is the residue that is left upon hearing the soup of tuna for hours on low simmer, and the thick paste produced is eaten by Maldivians with many items of food from rice to the local kind of bread, which resembles the naan bread of Indian origin.
The local market has been in the same place for decades, and has seen little change throughout its history. The large tree that is on its seaward-side compound has been there for many years and creates an image that can instantly be recognized by many Maldivians.
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