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Eat Traditional Sri Lankan Cuisine

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Rice and Curry Growing up in Sri Lanka blessed with parents bitten by travel bug, I have traveled vastly through the island. Now I visit Sri Lanka, not for its beaches nor for its small dense forests, not for its ancient ruins nor for its sprawling tea gardens, not for boutique hotels that serve weird yet popular fusion cuisine, not for overly priced luxury hotels, but for its simple healthy home cooked food and its people. The people, very complex, on the outside who laugh and joke with beaming warm smiles, very intriguing inside, helpful, generous, fearfully superstitious and believers of  karma, who as a society has a long way to get rid of prejudices and ethnocentrism, and to adopt fairness and equality for all.  As you peruse through these pictures you may ask what about Kottu, Lamprias, Sri Lankan-Chinese, and Short-eats? Meh, they are ok as a treat but would not make the cut for eat-to-live foods #eat2live  @4giris . Certainly you shouldn't be eating t...