#1 Hopper (Appa) and Egg Hopper

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These tasty breakfast morsels are found all over Sri Lanka. You start with a light pancake batter then add coconut milk and palm wine (toddy). Served with coconut sambal.

#2 Coconut Sambal (Pol Sambal)

Shredded fresh coconut + chilies + red onion + salt + lime = the most delicious condiment ever. It’s both spicy and a little sweet. Sri Lankans serve it with almost every dish!

#3 Sri Lankan Dhal Curry (Parippu)

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Sri Lankans add heaps of fresh coconuts, more spices, and extra chilies. This delicious dish is packed with protein and fiber and it’s served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

#4 Halapa

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Traditional sweet in Sri Lanka made with Ragi flour, coconut, honey, and salt wrapped in a kanda leaf. Mildly sweet and extremely addicting!

#5 Roti

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Flatbread can be eaten on it’s own or stuffed with vegetables, eggs and etc. You’ll pretty much find a variety of roti there.

#6 Young Jackfruit Curry (Polos)

Jackfruit is eaten in a number of different ripeness stages in Sri Lanka, but for preparing polos, the young, unripe jackfruit is used. The fruit is cut into chunks and simmered in a blend of rich spices. Polos is so good, it could almost pass for chunks of tender beef!

#7 Sri Lankan Tamil Food (Jaffna)

This outrageously tasty meal included yellow rice, an assortment of vegetable and seafood curries, a few parathas, and a number of heaping spoons full of tomato onion garnish.

#8 Ulundhu Vadai

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These marvelously tasty little fritters are made from daal, combined with incredible spices, and deep fried to crunchy perfection.

#9 Deep Fried Morsels

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These snacky morsels of batter were heavily salty and seasoned with fried curry leaves.

#10 Woodapple Juice

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The outer shell smells a bit like rotting blue cheese mixed with dirty socks. The inside of the fruit looks a bit like diarrhea, but tastes similar to a tamarind. Despite the looks of this wonder fruit, woodapple juice in Sri Lanka is wildly popular and it tastes pretty good when it’s blended up with some sugar. There’s nothing better to wash down Sri Lankan food with, than a big cup of woodapple juice!

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