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Very nice and great experience if you had thai food in Sri Lanka. Not really the same you had in Thailand but better then nothing.Nice decor and excellent shopping mall. Pad thai seafood and tom yam soup.
As for me, chinese cusine is a must if you reallt like chinese dishes. I had a great time and very excellent food in the restaurant. Nice staff and comfort place to dine.The variety of the menu is widely. Chilli crab,claypot beancurd,stir fried chicken in drak chilli sauce and wanton soup. YUMMY..!!!
The foodcourt had alot to offer from different cuisine. Its cheap and nice. Crowded during weekend. Dont expect to have a seat upon your arrival. There's a Thai stall that mostly promote thai dish. The tom Yam seafood soup not that bad. But here in Sri Lanka, the meal is really a big portion.Try the Chicken Tom Yam Soup and Phai Thai. Cost around 300 rupees
Now if you're fond of Indian food, here's some good news for you. In culinary terms it shares much of its large neighbour. Unfortunately I am not, so I found the local cuisine repetitive and hot, hot, hot. What is to be found easily around is rice and curry. In fact everything (chicken, fish, meat) is with curry. If you don't want to have your palate burned always ask for "not hot" dish. More or less it will arrive just to what you can tolerate!!Remember that despite you'll be provided with cutlery, locals prefer to eat with their fingers.Unfortunately finding a proper place to have a meal is a always a trick as it seems that dining out is not common for Sri Lankans. So most of the times we found ourselves sticking to the guesthouse restaurant.
If your trip takes you along the A4 road through Ratnapura have your driver stop at the excellent Lindys Restaurant and Bakery at Batugedara (just to the south of Ratnapura towards Haputale). There are no inflated tourist prices at Lindys, the owner manager has many years of catering experience in Sri Lanka and abroad, his place is well managed, spotlessly clean and the food is simply great. A breakfast buffet is served between 7 and 10am, lunch from 11.30am to 3pm and dinner between 4.30 and 10pm. The owner also has two shops selling bakery items in the area. The splendid rice and curry buffet comes at Rs200 for all you can eat and is followed by a complementary crème caramel. Or, if you are fed up with curry you can treat yourself to pies, sandwiches and cakes from the bakery counter.
Along the coast, especially areas where travellers stay, you can find simple, family run restaurants. Usually just a small room in a house with a few tables, they can give you a chance to sample good traditional food. The selection is whatever they have on hand at the time...typically fresh fish, lamb, vegetables, curries etc. Finish off your meal with a lassi blended with milk and some of the local fruits. The fish is always good
I'm really not the kind of person to eat alot of fast food, but I guess I just got a bit tired of curries in Sri Lanka, so on our last day we ate at both KFC and Pizza Hut within 24 hours. But even these American icons have a Sri Lankan flavour to them here; Pizza Hut Express has three varieties of pizza - spicy vegetable, spicy chicken, and tandoori chicken - and the KFC menu includes items such as Biryani Chicken and Kottu.
We were very happy to find this place which fills a void in Galle Fort, where we had a hard time finding budget restaurants. It is small and intimate with just three tables, and it has a very nice view of the ramparts, good food, cheap prices, and friendly service. It began in October 2005 as a juice bar (hence the name), but people kept requesting food so they started serving that too, and they do a very good job of it. They do not add tax or service charges onto the bill, which is unusual in Sri Lanka. Grilled Tuna with Salad Rs 200Grilled Prawns with Chips or Salad Rs 250
This guesthouse has a very nice set vegetarian dinner for Rs 300. It comes with rice, three or four curries according to the menu though we were served five, plus salad and dessert. We weren't very hungry so we asked if we could share one dinner between the two of us, and they brought us more food than we could finish but still only charged us Rs 300 (plus 10% service charge).
Apart from the guesthouses, Aruna's restaurant is one of the few budget options for eating in Galle Fort. It's a tiny family-run place with just four tables. They do pretty good pizzas and curries, and the service is quick and the price reasonable. Since there is no staff other than the couple who live there and run the place, they may close unexpectedly if they have something else going on (even if that something else appears to be nothing more than standing in the doorway watching the world go by).
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