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5 Foods You Must Try When You Visit Sri Lanka  In 2025

Sri Lanka is one of the prominent travel destinations in 2025. The island nature which is surrounded by sandy beaches and magnificent natural travel destinations, attracts many tourists.

It’s said that you can experience all kinds of weather and landscape when you travel from the south to the north of the country.

As the majority of Sri Lankans are Sinhalese, the country is multicultural with few other nationalities like Tamils, muslims and Moors.

Not only that their main religion buddhism but there are Hindus, Christians, catholics and Muslims living in the country.

Not only that this small island was also colonised by the Dutch and English people too.

Under all these kinds of influences, the country has a vast cultural diversity. This affected the country’s food culture. Here we are bringing you the must-try dishes when you travel to Sri Lanka this year.

Kottu Roti

This simple dish started as a street food and is now popular around the country. The chopped-up roti is mixed with any protein you prefer.

However, the most attractive part is how the kottu roti is made. You can enjoy the rhythmic sound how the knives hitting the hot griddle while mixing with the preferred gravy.

Egg Hoppers

This is a crispy crêpe made with fermented rice flour and coconut milk. There are different kinds of hoppers, and you can eat the simple crepe just made with rice flour with onion sambol or a spicy chicken curry. However, when the carpe accerised with an egg, it hits differently. You can try it with those curries or with a plain Cylone tea.

Milk Rice

This rice dish is just rice cooked in coconut milk. However, with that simplicity, milk rice holds a cultural value in the country. This dish is normally prepared on special occasions and to offer Lord Buddha or on Poya days. This is paired with onion chilli sambol, and you can even try it with chicken curry or fish curry as you prefer.

Rice and Curry

Sri Lankan rice and curry is not just a dish but an art. White rice is compared with hundreds of cooked vegetables and fish curries. Sri Lankan spice mixes and coconut milk are used in most of the dishes. 

Short Eats

These small street snacks are found from small street carts to five-star restaurants. It’ll be budget budget-friendly quick snack when you travel around the country. As this will fill you up and will make you experience the marvellous mixture of vegetables and Cylone spice mixtures.

Prasanjani Weerasinghe

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