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Hikimas

Skipjack tuna boiled, smoked and sun-dried into hard blocks, shaved into dishes

Maldives Charcuterie & cured

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

The Maldives’ oldest export, traded to Sri Lanka and India for centuries as Maldive fish and still made by island households.

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What is Hikimas?

Hikimas is a charcuterie & cured from Maldives: skipjack tuna boiled, smoked and sun-dried into hard blocks, shaved into dishes. The Maldives’ oldest export, traded to Sri Lanka and India for centuries as Maldive fish and still made by island households.

Made with

fish

Cooked

smokeddried

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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