{"id":115,"date":"2009-05-13T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.experiencesoutheastasia.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-11-04T18:05:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:05:52","slug":"115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/115\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Rice & Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sri Lanka Rice and Curry Spices….<\/p><\/div>\n

Top 5 misconceptions about Sri Lankan<\/a> Rice and Curry<\/p>\n

1: It’s basically a type of Indian curry.<\/p>\n

A myth propagated by Indian restaurants abroad with their Ceylon curries – generally meaning one made with coconut milk. Sri Lankan Rice and Curry is a completely distinct meal from any one would have on the Indian subcontinent: it’s a way of preparing serving and eating food – hell it’s a way of life!
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\n2: Lazy hotel restaurants serve it cold.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankan’s traditionally eat with their hands – ergo Rice and Curry is served luke-warm at the most.<\/p>\n

3: The hotel\/lodge\/guesthouse\/friend’s house that I ate it first serves the best curry in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

They almost certainly don’t. We all get nostalgic over our first times’… However, my friend Piyus’ wife definitely has a good claim…<\/p>\n

4. A foreigner eating with their hands is just a bit of a ‘try hard’.<\/p>\n

Rice and Curry is designed to be eaten with one’s hands. It needs to be mixed together – to try the different textures tastes combinations – to use that extra sense and, most importantly, to negate the furious chillie heat of some of the curries.<\/p>\n

5: Sri Lankan’s can cope with much spicy-hot food than foreigners<\/p>\n

Now this one is slightly controversial. Sri Lankan’s tend to believe this one. However, it is my contention that the method of eating – rubbing large amounts of rice into small amounts of curry negates a good deal of the heat. Faced with an ultra hot Thai salad or soup, I have seen many a Sri Lankan wilt Similarly foreigners who think Sri Lankan food is the hottest they have ever tasted are probably just eating it wrong!<\/p>\n

If you’d like to try your hand at making Sri Lankan curries, you can experience various cooking classes<\/a> across the island.<\/p>\n

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