Stuffed Banana Peppers (Deep Fried Maalu Miris)
As a child, everything overwhelmed my senses.
Smell, taste, touch, a moving piece of prose, poetry or music, you could say that I was a hypersensitive. (I st... Read More...
Streetfood
Chinese Tea Eggs
I have never been to China. Not even once. But I have been to a lot of China towns.
The first day I tried Chinese Tea Eggs is etched in my mind so clearly. W... Read More...
Sri Lankan Tea buns
It's 4 o'clock and the smell of freshly baked bread, roast paan, kimbula banis and tea banis emanating from our neighborhood bakery would wake us gently from ou... Read More...
Hot butter cuttlefish
I'm not quite sure what the origin of this scandalously indulgent dish is, so I am going to assume that it is one of our signature Sri Lankan hybrid specialties... Read More...
Street food fix – Isso roti/wadei
I was feeling hungry the other day (shock, gasp, yelp!) as I was going home after work, and anybody knowing the area would agree that there is not a single ... Read More...
Quest for the perfect Boondi
................and I found it. At a wayward Duwanagiriya (a tiny box type boutique on wheels) in front of a duplicate Devon Restaurant in the heart of Polo... Read More...