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to Sri Lanka and make your dream Holiday come true!
Holiday in Sri Lanka is ideal if you're looking
forward to have fun, enjoy the sunshine and frolic
in white sandy beaches. If you want to do bird
watching, see wildlife paying a visit to Ceylon will
be a holiday you'll never forget. If you want to try
out eco tourism, Sri Lanka is a marvelous place to
spend your vacation. Sri Lanka is one place where
you could be in harmony with nature like in no other
place. By spending your holiday in Sri Lanka you'll
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of fun, experience a unique culture
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The staple diet in Sri Lanka is rice. It is eaten with
curry and a variety of chutneys, pickles and sambals.
The rice may be boiled and served with curries or it may
be cooked with spices and in coconut milk, as 'yellow'
rice. It is also baked in meat stock as a Biriyani.
Meats, seafood and vegetables are cooked as a curry with
a base of coconut milk.
Other special food
includes:
Kiribath
Kiribath means 'milk rice' and is a traditional dish for
festive or special occasions.
Hoppers
Hoppers (egg and plain) are made of a batter containing
coconut milk and palm toddy left overnight to ferment.
It is then fried in a bowl shaped metal pan which forms
its shape. Simply breaking an egg into the centre of the
plain hopper makes an egg hopper.
String Hoppers
String Hoppers are vermicelli made of rice flour and
steamed over a low fire.
Pittu
Pittu is prepared with rice flour and shredded coconut
and steamed inside a bamboo. It is eaten with a hot
sambal and pol hodi (coconut gravy).
Lamprais
Lamprais is a dish of Dutch origin. The rice is boiled
in meat stock and then the vegetables and meat are added
then slowly baked wrapped in a banana leaf.
Desserts
The wide array of Sri Lankan sweets betrays the sweet
tooth of the Sri Lankan.
Buffalo Curd and Treacle
Buffalo Curd and Treacle (kithul pani which is made from
the kithul palm).
Juggery
Juggery is a hard, brown coloured sweet made out of
kitul treacle.
Kalu Dodol
Kalu Dodol is made out of coconut milk, juggery and
cashew nuts.
Kavum, Kokis and Athiraha
Kavum, Kokis and Athiraha are traditional Sinhala
sweetmeats.
Watalappan
Watalappan is made out of boiled coconut milk and
juggery laced with cashew nuts and raisins.
Rasakevili
Rasakevili are the sweetmeats eaten during the festive
seasons.
Thalaguli
Thalaguli are sesame balls.
Halape
Halape are a mixture of coconut and juggery.
Aluwa
Aluwa is a fudge-like sweet.
Puhul Dosi
Puhul Dosi (pumpkin preserves).
Panivalalu
Panivalalu are 'honey bangles'.
Bibikkan
Bibikkan is a traditional Sinhala cake made from juggery,
coconut, cashews and dried fruit.
Fruits
Tropical fruits are plentiful in Sri Lanka. There are
various varieties of mangoes, bananas, papaya,
pineapples, avocados, guava, melons, passion fruit and
pomegranate.
Some
of the special fruits are:
Rambutan
Rambutan is related to the lychee. It is coated with a
soft red hairy skin, which is easily peeled to rach the
sweet flesh of the fruit.
Mangosteen
Mangosteen is a dark purple fruit with luscious
translucent segments within. Its flavour may be
described as a combination between strawberries and
grapes. They are seasonal and are available from July to
September.
Durian
Although the skin of the fruit has a strong, sometimes
unpleasant aroma, the fruit is rich, soft, and yellow
custard-like on the inside. This is believed to be an
aphrodisiac.
Wood Apple
Wood Apple is a hard wooden-shelled fruit. This can be
made into a tasty drink or a rich pudding with coconut
milk.
Jackfruit
Jackfruit is very large fruit and may be eaten fresh as
a fruit or cooked as a curry. Within the coarse, green
skin, there are hundreds of succulent orange/yellow
segments.
Babyjack
Babyjack is a watermelon-sized fruit which is eaten
cooked as a curry.
Fish and Seafood
Being an island surrounded by the ocean, there is
naturally a huge selection of seafood.
These include:
Prawns, Tuna, Crabs, Mullet, Shrimp, Shark, Lobster,
Skipjack, Large Tiger Prawns, Amberjack, Squid, Seer.
There is also a large variety of freshwater fish.
Kiribath