Discovering new tasty foods is one of the best parts of traveling, at least for a person like me who loves food more than...pretty much anything.
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| Eating rice and curry with lovely Ruwan and his family. |
String hoppers are a dome of thin noodles made of fermented rice flour and served with coconut sambol* and a coconut curry sauce. You can just buy some to go for 80 rps ~ 50 cents!!
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| String hoppers with coconut sambol and dal. |
*Coconut sambol is to die for! Grated fresh coconut, chili, garlic, ...put that on anything and you’re good to go!
**Roti is like a really thin pancake/crepe/tortilla, but here they are soaked in butter/ghee for hours so that they are extra soft and stretchy.
Another tasty dish is kotthu. Take a roti**, some veg, spices and add egg/cheese/chicken and start frying and chopping away on a hot griddle!
As for something sweet, coconut pancakes are spectacular. I enjoyed them for breakfast with fresh fruit....mmmmh.
There are so many other tasty foods in SL. What I learned is to eat where the locals eat! Rice and curry, coconut roti, fried rice... In Weligama, check out ZamZam, AVM Creamhouse, Dulnetha, or any Roti stand in the city center.
Of course, there are also yummy places catered to tourists. In Weligama, Aloha and Hangtime have yummy food for still cheaper prices than in Switzerland or the US. In Ella, checkup out Chill.
