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Grocery shopping in Sri Lanka

July 9, 2009

Since probably most of you who are reading this have never been to Sri Lanka, I thought I’d tell y’all a bit about what it’s like here.
Fahim and I do most of our grocery shopping at Arpico, a department store with a grocery section and fixed prices.
Why is fixed prices important? Because [...]

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Cooking Away My CSA

July 8, 2009

I’m a Canadian (from western Canada) living in Sri Lanka for the last six years. Yeah, big change. Huge dietary change, too.
Sri Lanka is the teardrop shaped island off the south east coast of India, but it’s not India. It’s its own country.
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Foreign Food in Sri Lanka and Me

March 8, 2009

Eating a local diet – that is, local vegetables and food products – is much cheaper than eating foreign (foreign, in this entry, meaning “not Sri Lankan”). Most foreign food items are imported, and that, naturally enough, raises the prices dramatically. It’s actually those high prices that have spurred me on to making my own [...]

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Sri Lankan Curries on the Internet

January 26, 2009

Looking for authentic Sri Lankan recipes to try out, but not sure where to look? I have some authentic Sri Lankan recipes posted here already, and more will join here as time goes by and I get more recipes posted.
Inthe meantime, I’ve gone through some other [...]

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The Sizzle Restaurant

January 21, 2009

We’d heard about The Sizzle from Fahim’s brother and decided it was time for us to check it out, especially since I have a birthday coming up and it’s Fahim’s responsibility to take me out for lunch. :p
Armed with only a general location, we found it (signs pointing to The Sizzle helped, of course). Housed in [...]

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More on Jellabees

February 19, 2006

In talking with Fahim, I found out that his mother tried making them when he was younger, and the comment is that, no matter how hard she tried, they never came out as good as the ones from the Bombay Sweet Houses.
Drat!
Well, truth [...]

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Selling fish from the back of a motorcycle

August 23, 2003

This morning, we heard a guy yelling in Sinhalese from his motorcycle as he drove down our street. I asked Fahim what he was saying, and Fahim says he’s selling fish, and do we want some? Why not? So we go outside and negotiate prices with the guy.
Fahim asks what kind of fish, but he [...]

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