From Colombo market stalls to tea-tasting on the coast, Sophie Pither eats her way around this must-visit food destination.
Day one in Sri Lanka, and I’m mid Colombo food tour with my guide Naushad in Pettah market. He’s naming vegetables I don’t recognise.
“Those are green eggplants,” he says of a pile of pretty green and white spheres. He points at bunches of pale grey, banana-like fruit. “Ash plantain, for cooking… snake gourds, banana flowers, custard apples, dambala, wood apples.” He checks his phone to find the right English words. There are huge sacks of chillies: long green skinny ones, tiny round fierce-looking red ones, and every shape and strength in between…
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