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Traditional Sri Lankan Cuisine

Come to Colombo which is fast growing into a hub of multi- national cuisine where for your breakfast you could have from bacon and eggs to delicious French croissants or have a plate of Sri Lankan special milk rice ‘kiri bath’ with an assortment of other dishes and wash them down with a steaming cup of tea or coffee. Come dinner time go for Italian pasta, Japanese sushi or choose from many more wonderful dishes that are on offer from a wide variety of restaurants around town.

“Tasty Sri LankanCuisine "

Start off your ‘foodie’ tour heading down South along the coastal line and on the way have a drink of young king coconut which is not only a heavenly drink to quench your thirst but also fills your stomach as you will see when you eat the tender kernel that it will offer. Going along the coast line it is the sea food that will cater for a gourmet’s delight. The Sri Lankan special among the sea food is the art of cooking the same fish in seven different ways you will never have enough of it. Polos (young jack fruit), wambatu moju (pickled egg plant ) goukola sambol, mellum made out of a wide variety of leaves, we have mentioned just a few but most of what you get will keep your palette tantalizing.

On to the East where the middle Eastern influence is evident there is beef curry, biriyani and the best …………watalappam. Proceed up North and what will you get is food with an Indian touch about it. For example you may taste rasam (a kind of veg soup with a fairly strong spicy

flavor) murunga and brinjal curry, mutton porial and pittu and of course there is palmyra toddy (somewhat like cider in the West) Having concurred ¾ of the country proceed to Kandy the capital of hills, eat rotti and ‘lunu miris’ if you are the ‘daring sort who would not mind really hot stuff’ take the fire away with a cup of plain tea with a chunk of Jaggery or even boondi. You have a sweet tooth ……….have konda kewum, mung kewum, kokis, aggala, undu wel …………….we could fill pages with them and practically all will fall into vegan as well.

So how do you feel now …………give us the number of days you would like to spend here and we will set up a trip for you ……….with a promise you would come back