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Mangalore is rich in Tradition and Culture. Mangaloreans are not very orthodox. All the festivals, rituals and customs are very unique from rest of India.

Dress Code
Traditionally, men wear panche or lungi (mundu as called in Tulu), usually most men wear white colour mundu only. The women folk wear saree and blouse, young girls wear langa and blouse. The older women wear hand woven saree (Maggada seere). These days due to strong  city influence young girls have started wearing nighties and chudidars.

Ornaments
Married women wear the usual "Thali" or "Karimani" (black beads in gold string) and wear silver toe rings on their second toe (kaar oongila). Their hands are decorated by coloured glass bangles (kuppida kaaji),  ears with  gold ear rings, finger with the gold wedding ring (voddi oongila) and nose with a single  white stone stud (moonkuthi). Men as such do not wear any gold, but these days you can find men  wearing gold chain and finger ring.

Food Habits
Mangaloreans eat a very good  and heavy breakfast. There are a  variety of breakfast they make in the morning, these can be...............idli, neer dose, urdu dose, pundi, sajige bagill, mude, pathrode, semige. These are all traditional Mangalore dishes and  are made  always in the conventional method.
Breakfast is always served with Tea or Coffee sometimes people prefer "ganji" (boiled rice water)  with little salt. In villages people eat "Ganji"  in the morning with little pickle or dry fish chutney.
Afternoon Mangaloreans do not have heavy lunch, they eat raw rice or "urpel ari" (boiled rice which is dark brown in colour) with some  coconut vegetable gravy, pickle and butter milk. This region is famous for its unique seafood preparations which are cooked in the variety of ways, from spicy fish curries to pungent masala fried fish, grilled or curried tiger prawns, or baked crabs. In addition to this, pork dishes, kori sukkas, kori rotti, ganji chutney and dry fish curry are perfectly complemented with boiled rice. Fish is in  Mangalorean`s everyday diet, it is eaten with boiled rice. For dinner boiled rice is eaten with  coconut fish gravy or fish fry.
Cashew liquor and toddy are the traditional drinks that lightens  any social gathering. Snuff, Beedi and betel-leaf chewing are the common habits in the rural areas of the district.