Small eateries near the market and the bus stand serve rice-based meals through the day: rice with dal, fried or curried vegetables, and occasionally dried fish or pork. The cooking varies by the household running the place and what has come in from the market that morning. Meals are inexpensive and portions are generous. There is no menu to speak of — you eat what is being cooked. The food around the main market area is the most reliably available; further from the centre, spots open and close unpredictably.