Sri Lankan food

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Interested to know if anyone has tried Sri Lankan food and if so, what are your thoughts on the cuisine.

Dried curry leaves are not worth using. I'm lucky I can get fresh ones from nearby Asian grocers. I freeze and use as needed.

For those looking for curry leaves and not near an Indian grocery store, Amazon sells them. I buy and freeze.

I liked what I had once. It was good for vegetarians (though they had meat and fish o the menu too). Unfortunately for some reason my friends never want to go which is weird when they have had Indian dishes.

@MilkshakesBringAllTheCoosToTheYard Oh yes I think there might be some in Bonnie and Wild actually! A trip to make if I can ever get 2 mins away from the littles

The restaurant I went to once wS in Northfiels, Ealing but cannot remember the n!ame

I used to live in India (I'm not Indian) and we would go on holiday to Sri Lanka. It's my favourite food in the whole world! I actually don't find it particularly spicy (nor is Indian food either for that matter). I would eat string hoppers every day if I could make them myself. I do make a really nice chicken curry and then sometimes with that do a chicken kottu or a cheese kottu.

I've been to Sri Lanka and we loved the food!!
Fish curries, kottu.
We stayed in quite a few homestay/B&Bs and thought the food was excellent.
I dint think we had anything overly spicy but it was probably tailored to tourists!

I am in Sri Lanka at the moment, my 14th visit since 1998. I think the food is delicious, especially the interesting mallums, pol sambol etc. plus dhal & red rice. I often cook it at home with recipes I got from a chef here & using my Sri Lankan coconut scraper. I will be stocking up on one or two ingredients before I leave.

Papaya! I used to go a lot when I lived in West London but I tend to go to Kolamba in Soho now, or if I'm in the neighbourhood, then I pick up short eats from Sambal Express in north London.

I'm Sri Lankan originally, though neither Tamil nor Sinhalese, and Charmaine Solomon's Sri Lankan chapter in her complete Asian cookbook is my bible!

My father was born in Sri Lanka. Ceylon back then in the forties. They came back to the Uk after independence and I remember my grandmother in 1970s Yorkshire serving these exotic Anglo Indian curry dishes with desiccated coconut and mashed banana.

When I was lucky enough to visit Sri Lanka a few years ago I was entranced by the food. Kotu and daals and hoppers. Really beautiful. There's a southern India dosa place near us that seems similar in flavour but I'd love to visit an authentic Sri Lanka restaurant

@Dinneronmybfpillow tell me more about the home kits! I’d love to order some.

The company is called Hari Hari - you can buy odd bits, multipacks or subscriptions. The Turmeric Tea is nice too.