Sri Lankan dishes include rice and curry, pittu, Kiribath, wholemeal roti, and string hoppers. They eat Wattapalam which is pudding made out of coconut milk. Sri Lankans also eat Jaggery, cashew nuts, eggs and spices with cinnamon and nutmeg, kottu, and hoppers. Jackfruit is also used instead of rice. Sri Lankan food is usually eaten on plantain leaves and lotus leaves.

Sri Lankan traditional rice colors are white, dark, and red. Most varieties are red. The names of the traditional rice are Suwandel, Kalu Heenati, Maa-Wee, Pachchaperumal, Kuruluthuda, Rathdel, Madathawalu, and Hetadha Wee. Hetadha Wee is helpful with health problems and increases muscles. The same is said for Rathdel except it heals different health problems.

Jackfruit can be found in any kind of tropical place around the world and is popular in Sri Lanka. Jackfruit trees can produce about 100 to 200 jackfruits a year.

I didn’t like the Sri Lankan food, because the food was mostly spicy rice and curry, and foreign food I have not eaten before. At least they had burgers, unlike in India, where cows are holy animals and aren’t allowed to be killed. Some of the restaurants on the streets were absolutely tiny, but some were big. One of the restaurants had the food on leaves like I said earlier in this blog post. My rating on Sri Lankan food I ate is 4/10.

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