Beside the comfortable stay and ample scenic beauty or other importance of the place, availability of tempting cuisines to meet with the eating habits, appetite and affordability are the essentials for a tourist spot for the again and again visits by the travelers.

Goa is the tourist Paradise just because on all these three fronts, land is miles and miles ahead of opponents. This is the most common [but away from reality] myth that "Goa is the place for the people loving and enjoying non vegetarian food and alcoholic drinks".

Though there are huge variable options are available for the lovers of this types of food habits and a considerable population of tourists look at this as the yet another charming attraction for Goa tourism but there is more than sufficient space available to meet with the diversified food habits of the visitors. Tourist will not find it hard to locate a pure vegetarian dining space not only at the city heart of Panjim, the capital city and most chosen tourist stay place, but also on the beach side stalls and restaurants situated there.

As for as the native population is concerned sea food, Fish curry with rice are among the dominating day to day food stuffs, where as Cashew and coconut feni and Urak are the most popular alcoholic drinks.

In the food stuffs of Goa a unique and fine blend of exotic aroma of Portugal, soaked in Indian spices is very distinctly and dominating feature and mouth watering temptation for the visitors of Goa. This is hard to forget test of "Steamed rolls" prepared from Rice flour, Coconut and Coconut water. European bread, bakery products are also famous food stuffs among the natives and tourists. At the most of beaches of Goa fresh sea food, Prawn curry and rice are the hot favorite recipe.

Significantly going deep into mind tastes of a cup of lemon grass tea at spice plantation land Ponda [also spelled as Phonda] and alike Maharashtrians food stuff at Hindu heartland on the banks of Mandovi and Zuari Rivers at the cities like Panjim are among the star attractions of cuisines world of tourist Goa.

This is almost since a little over an year that I was at famous Colva Beach and you might surprise to learn that I still remember the mouth watering aroma of "Chicken Manchurian" prepared at one of beach side food plaza there.