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SRI LANKAN FOOD

in Sri Lanka is treated with very great respect. It's through of so highly that people offer it to their gods. Indeed, if you are invited into a Lankan home to enjoy a meal with a family, however humble the location and whatever caste or creed your host, the array of dishes will a feast for the eyes and far from anything encountered in a tourist hotel. It will invariably be the very best your host can afford. The choicest Sri Lankan is to be had en famille and each family will horde favorite recipes handed down from generations of cooks.

 

  

  Haputale - 12 km from Bandarawela is cool, bracing Haputale, at an elevation of 1400m and surrounded by misty tea plantations and is famous for its panoramas across the Haputale pass to Southern plains and glimpses of the distant sea.

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  Galle - The seaside town of Galle is 116km. from Colombo, down the South-West coast. Visitor would enjoy with picturesque scenery of, catamarans drown up long the beach, fishermen drawing fishing-nets, coconut palm toddy tapping following the coastline closely for much of the way.

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Culinary art of Sri Lanka reflects the traditions of various cultures. The staple food of most Sri Lankans is boiled rice and spicy curries. These curries can be meat, fish or vegetable cooked in coconut milk and seasoned with various spices, chilies, pepper, onions cinnamon, cardamom, cloves,nutmeg, turmeric, curry leaves etc. Usually rice is served with about six or seven curries and also accompanied by various pickles, chutneys, mellum( a mixture of finely minced green leaves, scraped coconut and some spices)

Hoppers and string hoppers are another favorite from Sri Lanka, made by rice flour.
 

 
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Kiribath (milk rice) is made for special occasions like new year, wedding, birthday, house warming ceremony etc.; it is a mixture of boiled rice and coconut milk. Other than these dishes there are various delicious dishes and sweets available.

A large variety of fresh fruits available throughout the year in Sri Lanka, to name a few mango, pineapple, banana, passion fruit, papaya, avocado, water melon, orange, durian, rambutan, mangos teen, varaka etc……
Desserts like buffalo curd topped with treacle or watalappan (pudding made with jaggery) are one should not miss.

   

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