The great buffet in the restaurant of your hotel will be oriented European. Tunisian food is rarely served, sometimes on a Tunisian evening for example. You should try Tunisian cuisine, which is healthy and spicy in one of the numerous, comfortable and cheap restaurants on Djerba. Here the facts:

Harissa: Djerba’s spice No. 1, made from chilli peppers. Beware! Very spicy!

Couscous: National dish; made by rolling semolina wheat; steamed in a sauce, but there are endless variations;
Ojja: Steamed vegetables with meat, fish or merguez, tomao sauce and eggs; very spicy
Bric: Puff pastry, filled with eggs, fish or others and baked in olive oil
Merguez: Spicy sausage made of mutton, beef or lamb
Cassecroûte: White bread/baguette with harissa, olives, tuna and/or vegetables
Fricassée: Dough balls with harissa, tuna, eggs, olives, potatoes and/or salad
Chorba: Spicy, thick soup with lamb, pasta and vegetables, often tomato sauce
Meschoui: Lamb, roasted on a spit
Koucha: Cooked mutton with potatoes and vegetables
Felfel: Filled peppers with sauce
Doulma: Filled zucchinis with mincemeat and sauce

Baklawa: Puff pastry made of layers, filled with pistachios and date paste or nuts
Makroudh: Semolina pastry filled with date paste

Boukha: Natural fig brandy
Thibarine: Liquor of dates