Local fish, lobster, shutki vorta and a grill in the evening. Here's how our menu works, and a few plates we'd put together for you.
People often ask what there is to eat near Chera Dip and what it costs. So here's our restaurant at El Marena Eco Resort, explained by the people who run it. You can turn through the whole menu, page by page, on our food menu.
How our menu works
- Each fish, chicken and vorta dish is for 1 person.
- Fish comes as gravy or fry, whichever you prefer.
- Rice is ৳50 for a full plate and ৳30 for a half plate.
- Breakfast is free with a duplex cottage. Other guests pay from the breakfast menu.
The fish
Tuna, salmon, maitta tuna and tek chanda are ৳250. Flying fish is ৳220. Red snapper koral, black koi koral, kalo chanda and bhol tiger fish are ৳300. Rup chanda is ৳450, big chaka chingri is ৳350 and lobster is ৳600.
Some good combinations
- A simple lunch: full plate of rice, lentil and tuna fry, ৳380.
- For shutki lovers: rice, lentil and loitta shutki vorta, ৳380.
- A rup chanda plate: rice, alu vorta and rup chanda, ৳560.
- The treat: rice, lentil and lobster, ৳730.
- A full breakfast: two parathas, egg fry, alu vaji and milk tea, ৳260.
In the evening
Fresh fish and chicken on the barbecue are our highlight, and there's a self BBQ facility if you'd rather do it yourself. We also make chowmein, Burmese noodles and Thai soup, with cold drinks, Burmese tea and coffee, and our special Burmese calcium coffee to finish.
Want something that isn't on the menu? Tell us before you come. Any kind of request can be sorted with a pre-order.
Breakfast
If breakfast isn't included with your stay, it's simple and cheap. Paratha or ruti and egg fry are ৳50 a piece, alu vaji is ৳60, raw tea is ৳30, milk tea is ৳50 and coffee is ৳100.
Chicken, lentil and vorta
Not everyone wants fish twice a day. Broiler chicken is ৳250 and pahari murgi, the hill chicken, is ৳400, both gravy or fry. Lentil is ৳80 and alu vorta is ৳60. If you like strong flavours, try the shutki: loitta, koral or tuna shutki vorta and chingri balachao are ৳250 each, and koral mas jhuri vorta is ৳300.
A few tips
- Tell us at breakfast what you'd like for dinner, especially for lobster or the barbecue.
- Ask what came in fresh today. That's usually the best thing to order.
- If someone in your group can't eat spicy food, tell us and we'll make it milder.
- A family can share rice and order a different fish each, so everyone gets to try more.
