Sri Lanka Frankly, I did not know that I would encounter such a rich cuisine while planning my trip. Since I have not had any problems with food anywhere, I did not do any research in particular. However, he synthesized Indian and Asian cuisine, Sri Lankan food waiting for me 🙂 Yummy 🙂
In fact, Sri Lankan food culture is predominantly vegetarian due to the Buddhist philosophy. Many root vegetables and vegetables as we know them are cooked in curry. From beetroot to pumpkin, from ginger to leek, many vegetables not far from us are grown and used in meals.
Everything is very good so far, but all the dishes are very spicy and spicy, if you want it without pain, you need to specify it. I couldn't try some of the sauces and local dishes as I am not very intolerant to pain. If you say you don't want "spicy", they will help you, but since they use very intense pain, even what they say without pain is a bit spicy for me, luckily I can eat that much 😉
We took care to go to places where the locals eat. It was important for me to see their understanding of food. The part that seems a little too much for us; everyone ate the food with their hands and never used cutlery. Meals are generally consumed in the form of curry and sauce on top of rice, and it does not look very nice when eaten by hand. In addition, there is a thin plastic cover on the plates, the plates are not washed, only rinsed. Whites are treated differently. Plates, forks and spoons without nylon are sure to come to you, knives are rare.
Eggs are used extensively in cooking. I guess that's how they meet their protein needs. Eggs are very common in soup and rice.
Despite being an ocean country, fish diversity is low. Since there are plenty of lakes in the interior, there are freshwater fish. Fresh fish is not consumed much, but dried fish is available in both markets and markets, I did not try it because I did not like the smell.
I have not seen any cheese used in Sri Lanka, except for the cheddar-like cheeses in the market, although there is also livestock. On the other hand, buffalo yoghurt in a tub is widely available in markets and markets.
Sri Lankan Desserts
There are many patisseries, especially cream cakes are consumed a lot. You can also buy a tray of cakes, a half or a full tray. There are many options with cream and cocoa, 1 tray of cake is around 12TL. The desserts served in the patisseries were very bad in appearance. Since I am not very good with cream desserts, I met my dessert needs by eating lots of fruit.
Actually, they have a famous dessert that I haven't had time to taste, it's called Wattalapam. You can think of it as a bit darker than creme caramel, it looks the same.
Fruits and Vegetables in Sri Lanka
Coconut is the most grown plant in the country. It is possible to come across vendors on the side of the road all the time. You can drink the juice before 2-3 TL each and then eat the fleshy part. It's also good if you don't have a hangover.
You can find all kinds of tropical fruits easily and at affordable prices. Whether you consume it or its water, plenty of vitamins 🙂 Watermelon is tiny compared to ours, even smaller than the size of a melon, but delicious.
Cashew is still a very popular crop, but the selling price is high even in Sri Lanka.
Especially in the interior regions known as the Highlands, the variety of vegetables increases. The country's fruit-vegetable market revolves in Dambulla. It was distributed across the country from here.
Sri Lankan Food
Curry
The most common dish you will find in Sri Lanka is curry; Chicken, fish, meat, vegetables, whatever comes to mind, they all have curry. I think even I tried 1-15 kinds in 20 week. The easiest meal is rice & curry, that is, a meal with rice and curry. I bought a pack of curry from the market, let's see if I can make it too.
Located in Galle Fort to try curry varieties Lucky Fort RestaurantYou can try .
Koti Rotti
They have local dishes made of fatty dough called Koti & Rotti. Koti is eaten in portions, an oily dough similar to katmer dough is prepared, and it is cooked by mixing chicken, fish, vegetables with whatever spices you want, and has a noodle-like taste. It is very satisfying and delicious. It's even an easy meal to make with leftovers from the previous day.
Rotty-Rotti, on the other hand, is similar to pancakes, this time adding an egg to the same oily dough and something like a smaller and thicker pancake comes out. Especially the vegetable one, like potato pie, I ate it as often as I could 🙂
Rice
Rice is the base of every meal, plain rice looks like mush without salt, I do not recommend you to eat it without curry. If you eat fried rice or fried noodles, they are much tastier because they are fried in oil. Chicken fried rice or noodles is also very tasty and satisfying.
In general, the portions are huge, so don't overdo it when ordering.
Soup
You can try plenty of vegetable and egg soups. I did not take note of their names 🙂
Breakfast
Sri Lankans have breakfast with hot peppers and rice with milk. Of course, it is a way of eating that is quite distant from us. However, for white people, there are toast, butter, marmalade, omelette, pancakes, fruit plate and breakfast options in hotels and cafes. In general, I was very satisfied with the breakfasts. Good breakfast even if you go to the worst patisserie and buy a veggie rotti.
If you have time in Colombo, you can choose the Colombo YMCA to dine with the locals for cheap.
Sri Lankan Drinks
The country's most popular beverage brand is Elephant. They have a non-alcoholic beverage called ginger beer, think of it like ginger ale, I didn't like it. The lemon one was better.
Lion and Anchor 2 local beer, Lion should definitely be preferred. Wine is not made in the country. Rarely did Christians make it at home for themselves to drink.
Fresh juice is everywhere; Whatever you look for, you can find mango, pineapple, papaya very cheap on the street.
Tea in Sri Lanka
Of course, tea is drunk everywhere, but when ordering tea, be sure to specify whether you want it with milk or sugar, or it will come with milk and sugar. It is mostly served with English tea sets and a silver tray. Its taste is very close to our taste, you can consume it without hesitation ????
Local people do not have the habit of socializing outside, and the places to eat are eaten up quickly. Cakes are bought from bakeries and eaten with tea at home, so we had a hard time finding a place like a cafe to drink tea or coffee outside the touristic areas. It seems that there is no coffee habit, for example, there are no places like teahouses for tea.
Sri Lankan Street Food
Since street food is usually very spicy, I could taste it on a limited basis. For example, they make fried dough, they fry it by burying red hot pepper in it, if you can eat it. Of course, heaven for pain lovers!
Achcharu, on the other hand, is a snack made by mixing olives and different fruits with spices, which I come across on street cars in Colombo. Although it sounded strange as an idea, it tasted much better than I expected.
If you don't choose food, you won't go hungry in Sri Lanka. If you choose food, you may risk being hungry even in Italy, I can't say anything about it 🙂
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Hello . I'm going on Saturday, if you're lucky. You've got a car, but do you have any information about train journeys?
I haven't researched the train subject much, whatever I say would be a lie 🙂
The drink that the locals drink the most is arak. I think it's rice raki.
Thanks for information
Different flavors.