Food & Drink

Sri Lankan cuisine includes spicy curries, often made with coconut milk, sliced onion, green chilli, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, saffron and aromatic leaves. Local produce is excellent, particularly seafood and fruit.

Typical dishes include:

Hoppers or 'appa' (batter cooked rapidly in a hot curved pan, accompanied by eggs, milk or savouries)
Kiribath (an unsweetened rice-pudding cooked in thick coconut cream, accompanied by a sharp chili relish called 'lunumiris')
Pittu (mixture of fresh rice meal, very lightly roasted and mixed with fresh grated coconut, then steamed in a bamboo mould)
Wattalapam (rich pudding made of coconut milk, jaggery, cashew nuts, eggs, and various spices including cinnamon cloves and nutmeg)

Sri Lankan food also has Dutch and Portuguese influences, with the island's Burgher community preserving this culture through traditional favourites such as