local food
A popular Palai dish is the boiled and mashed tapioca, taken with fish curry. Another tapioca preparation is the one boiled in the shape of small drums drum-cut which is taken with a mixture of green chillies, onion and coconut oil.
Another authentic Palai dish is boiled and mashed jack-fruit, taken with beef curry.
Ripe Jack-fruit is another local delicacy. There is also Jack-fruit Halwa a sweet-meat made out of it.
Sweet-meats made using condensed palm toddy are the really exotic ones but you have to be lucky to get them, as good quality toddy is not available.
If you are less inclined to experiment, Appam a pan-cake made out of rice flour and coconut is a safe bet in most parts of Kerala. What generally goes with it is mutton stew, which is an adaptation of the stew that you find in Ireland, or Fish Molly fish cooked in coconut cream.
Ann's Bake House
A good place for short eats. The cakes and pastries that you get there are tasty and cheaper than what you pay for in the larger cities.