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$15 Sri Lanka street food challenge

Can a family of five eat their fill in Sri Lanka for just $15? Join us at the Aluthkade night market in Colombo for a vibrant ...
Chef Sudheera Bandara travelled to 2,000 villages and spoke to 5,000 senior citizens to uncover lost Sri Lankan recipes.
Must try street food in Sri Lanka. Today we tried our first kottu roti and isso vada, two incredibly popular Sri Lankan street foods in Colombo.
Chef, restaurateur and author Karan Gokani is stopping by the TODAY kitchen to make a few of his favorite recipes from his cookbook, "Hoppers: The Cookbook: Recipes, Memories and Inspiration from Sri ...
Combining Javanese, Malay, Indian, Arab, Portuguese, Dutch and British influences, the food of Sri Lanka is unique, spicy, fresh and often vegan-friendly. But it can be intimidating to navigate for ...
WHEN THE PANDEMIC derailed the 2020 launch of her restaurant, Cynthia Shanmugalingam jumped a plane from London to Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and spent months in a “marathon of writing, researching, learning ...
In Sri Lanka, a devilled dish is most often equated with “very hot!” This may be true, but devilling is also a method of cooking in which the main ingredient (vegetable, fruit or protein) is marinated ...
Mary Anne Mohanraj missed a lot of things when she went off to college, but the thing she was most homesick for was her mother's cooking. When her parents immigrated to Connecticut from Colombo, Sri ...
When Kolamba first opened in 2019, many diners who walked into the charming eatery in central London’s Soho district weren’t familiar with Sri Lankan cuisine. They thought it was just like Indian food ...
Sri Lankan food, if it gets mentioned at all at restaurants, often gets lumped in with the Indian curries and rice dishes on the menu. Or if you want to cook Sri Lankan food at home, you won’t find as ...
Throughout May, SideDish is highlighting someone in the food industry who is of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage in honor of AAPI Heritage Month. Our first Q&A featured Vi Henderson, the ...
The problem isn’t the availability of food items or essential goods, but skyrocketing prices of essentials due to stockpiling. For weeks headlines have hit news platforms around the world that Sri ...