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Halal food in Sri Lanka
today I'm exploring Sri Lanka's beautiful coast and capital city of Colombo, meeting with @AshenSenarathna and tasting some incredible Sri Lankan food!
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Thanks to Ashen and Ruzaina for this amazing day, and for showing me amazing Sri Lankan hospitality!
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Sri Lanka. Said to have some of the best food in the world, today I'm putting that statement to the test
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Sri Lanka! Today I'm exploring the capital city of Colombo and also heading to the city of Gaul on the coast to meet with a local Sri Lankan family who invited me to their home
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good morning everybody from the south of beautiful Sri Lanka I'm here in Gaul which is about a two
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hour drive from Colombo and I'm here with a local family who have invited me to have breakfast with
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them I left Colombo at about 6am and I've just arrived to a beautiful city on the coast of
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beautiful Sri Lanka so we're going to be preparing some incredible food and I'll show you around the
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beautiful house here on the coastline here in Sri Lanka. yes okay so finally after over three hours of cooking from home so many generations learned
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how to cook this incredible meal this is kiddo yes and we're gonna tuck in now and eat it it
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smells delicious we've got four different types of curries here we have a mango curry
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a aubergine with potato and also banana curry beef halal beef curry which smells
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insane and we've got dal here all in rice it looks and smells amazing
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should we start? yes we should so you have to get a little bit of everything
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wow wow the taste is unreal it's unlike what you had right
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unlike anything that you had wow the mango is so amazing it's got a really good kick to it too
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i'm not sure which one has the kick i guess it's the beef it's the beef the beef is very very peppery yeah
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and it's cooked in a specific way this is amazing Everybody thinks it's rice and curry, so it must be tasting the same, but it doesn't
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It's very different. Every single curry is super different, especially all over Sri Lanka
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It all tastes different in the region. After meeting the family, it was time to head back to the capital city of Colombo
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to discover more about Sri Lanka's incredible food. So I walking down Cross Street which is close to the sea here in Colombo heading to discover more incredible food Behind me is the amazing Red Mosque a mosque which I never seen so much detail and colour
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It's incredible, I love it here so much. So many people, so vibrant, so busy
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I love it. Wow, that's super sour and really spicy
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Wow, it's amazing though. It's great. It's like the perfect combination of sweet and spicy. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow
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cross street and i've just got the drink faluda which is a mixture of rose syrup so much sugar
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ice cream and i don't know what else let's taste it apparently it's super super sweet
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oh wow wow it's super sweet but so refreshing as you can see it's so busy here the markets
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are amazing and this is so refreshing i love it here so much
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okay so we're ending the day here at gold face which is on the marina here in beautiful colombo we're having fresh crab which is very seasonal this one's already been
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marinated and cooked and we're gonna taste it look how huge it is
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Okay, so we're down here at Goldface ready to try the crowd. We're joined by Rezena and Ashun
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Oh, yeah, yeah, J. Belgrade in Sri Lanka. Ashun is an amazing vlogger here in Sri Lanka. Do you want to introduce yourself
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I'm Ashun, subscribe me, guys. Vlogging you. Okay, let's try the crab. Yeah, I can help you if you want. Yeah
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Very slowly because the meat is really delicate. This is my first time in crab on camera
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So I'll take this so delicious I love this part
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Wow, that's the best part The claw is the sweetest It's covered in amazing curry sauce
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With so much lime juice too Cheers Cheers Every time I'm starting before anyone else
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No cheers, I'm eating Wow, it's incredible That curry sauce is amazing
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Really sweet Really, really, really good Wow good how many times have you eaten crab here
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How many times have you eaten crab here? Every time most of the time like twice a week, once a week, twice a week we always eat crab, prawns
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Sri Lanka is known for its crab you know especially around the world
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I can see why it's really amazing Because the flesh in our crab is super sweet so people from around the world come to Sri Lanka just to eat crab
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Even around Sri Lanka, anywhere you go, because everywhere we are surrounded with the sea
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anywhere you go in Sri Lanka, you can find crab. If you want crab, you go anywhere in Sri Lanka, you can have crab
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Come to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka guys Like Jay Sri Lanka come to Sri Lanka guys like Jay Sri Lanka
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now we're gonna eat jumbo, not jumbo prawns it's uh we call it
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jumbo jumbo jumbo jumbo jumbo prawns Jumbo, jumbo, jumbo prawns
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It's a... Jumbo, jumbo prawns, right? The sun is almost set now and as you can see, all across this street, it's full of street food stands
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So let's continue exploring. That seafood was really, really amazing. And the people down here are super nice. It's so busy
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So many people down here at sunset. It's pretty spectacular. Yeah, let's keep exploring. Let's keep eating and
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Yeah, it's so beautiful Grabbing some ginger tea from the store behind us. Everyone is super nice
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This one There's our season In April, it's Nivea. We celebrate Nivea two times in Sri Lanka. Yeah first time
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For 31st. For 31st night, January 1st. And for the second time, probably 13, 14, 15, like in April
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In April. Three Nivea, single Nivea and the English Nivea. No, but in..
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International Nivea. In April, single is and Tamil Nivea. Single and Tamil Nivea, yeah
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I'm sorry, I forgot. Yeah, this is homemade. During those times, single and Tamil Nivea
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everywhere in every single house in every Tamil house they made this cookies it's
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called cookies in Sri Lanka they ask that's a similar meaning cookies asking
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where's the kiss cookies where's the kiss comments where cookies where's the kiss
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Here is the kiss, call this You want to try this? Yeah, you eat this
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What does it mean? Rice flour That's it? No, rice flour, sugar, and coconut milk Homemade
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And it's fried in oil Okay, cheers guys I'm forgetting it I'm sorry
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I'm not eating this We can't stay three um yeah it's great it's like a giant crisp yeah it's like a crisp
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there's a bit of uh sugar too yeah why does it taste salty
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there is salt and sugar ah it's sweet and savory both great we'll try we'll try to go there we'll try to go there cheers
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wow that's so good so sweet everything in Sri Lanka has about five tablespoons for the sugar
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yeah it's so much sugar yeah it's perfect wow you have to say them
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but still they'll put one yeah yeah sugar put put a little bit sugar you have to say otherwise
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they put sugar yeah but anyway even if you said no sugar it's one sugar yeah it's one sugar no
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in Colombo. It's so amazing here. So many street food vendors. So many people here. It's so busy
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Beautiful mosque behind us. Hotel, mashallah. I love it here. It's so amazing. People are super kind
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I'm good. How are you? Good? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you
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What's your party? London, England. England. Nice to meet you. hi hi hi hi nice to meet you see what I mean people are so nice
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this is egg roti and this is onion yes and it's fried chicken it's made in a
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special way so it's really really tasty because it's marinated for more than 12 hours and then
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fried then the curry on top and this is something that a lot of sri lankans like to end their day
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with and that day i hope you guys can hear us it's so busy and so loud yeah hello people are
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very curious okay let's go let's go right up again and up a typical bitter roti chicken curry
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You don't have to go to Dubai to drink Dubai juice. You just come, just land from Emirates
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And drink Dubai juice here. To drink Dubai juice. Yeah. It's Dubai juice, but it tastes like Dubai juice
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It's really nice. It's the whole drink made out of fresh and fruits
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Fresh fruits. Fresh milk. Fresh milk. Almonds. almonds and everything, they don't include sugar at all
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it's sugar free yeah it's sugar free guys, it's sugar free the only place in Sri Lanka I think that's sugar free right
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yeah, alut kade, alut kade, alut kade alut kade, alut kade, alut kade, alut kade
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to my juice! so we got the strawberry one, this one tastes insane
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it's so good, so fresh can it taste like strawberry milk drink? You can have apple and what else
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Pomegranate, apple, grapes, pineapple and water. Ok guys that's the end of the beautiful food tour here in Sri Lanka
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Thank you so much for showing you guys around. Thank you so much for taking us Jay
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Thank you. He took him, but yes. Taking me both. It's been incredible
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Jay will be coming soon again. Yes, see you guys soon. Thank you so much for watching
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See you guys! Bye
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