Travel Eat Drink Like a Local

These vegetables are smaller in size and taste way different from how they taste here in America. Then there are so many other varieties that you will not ever see in an Asian grocery store in the US. Sri Lankans are known to follow eat-to-live philosophy. Vegetables are chosen and cooked based on the benefits they have to your physical, mental well-being. There is this fantastic article on Livestrong on benefits of eating Banana blossoms . In Sri Lanka, Banana flower is widely consumed and even substituted for large red onions in specialty dishes such as Seeni Sambol . Keselmuva (Banana Blossom) Common Carrots, Blue Beans, Cauliflower L-R: Snake gourd, Tree Cabbage leaves, Kohila root, Young Kohila Leaves, Baby onions wilh leaves, Onion Flower If you want to read more about the vegetable Kohila Lasia spinosa here's is an informative article: http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/food/13.htm Fresh Fish