We Came Back to SRI LANKA for THIS!
I've been waiting for this moment for two entire years this is the beginning of a massive Sri Lankan Adventure 2 years ago we made a promise that we were going to come back to this country Sri Lanka the place that we absolutely fell in love with on our first visit and now we're back and there's no better place to start this trip off then right here in negombo and we're at a very important place right now we are currently at St Sebastian's Church where on the 21st of April in 2019 a very tragic event took place here and here are all of the names of the people who tragically lost their life during the Easter bombing that took place at this church now believe it or not we were in negombo during our first trip we actually walked past this church as well and at that time we really were not familiar with the history of this place but now we are and it is a very beautiful start to the beginning of a new adventure here in Sri Lanka my God you guys we are so so excited to be back in Sri Lanka of course we made that one promise two years ago but we didn't actually think that it was going to take us two whole years to come back to Sri Lanka we were kind of planning on maybe one year or so but I feel like we have been going east for a very long time so yeah back to Sri Lanka it is back in South Asia Luke is currently fighting with these candles from the look of it there's Flames everywhere it's very massive Flames very windy so it's very windy it's kind of difficult to keep the candles lit but yes we are going to pray for for a positive and safe trip here in Sri Lanka which I'm sure uh we are going to get regardless because Sri Lanka is a very safe and very easygoing country and we're just so so stoked to be back here and I cannot wait to try Sri Lankan food once again I kind of feel like because of how long it has been uh we are not really familiar with the taste anymore you know after a while you kind of forget what things taste like so yeah we're going to try and find maybe an authentic Sri Lankan restaurant here as well after Luke lit his Candles now another reason I think why this church is such an important starting point for this Sri Lanka series is Sri Lanka is a majoritively uh Buddhist and Hindu population but I think that the struggle um and hardship that this community here in nombo went went through during the time of this attack but how rapidly they bounced back symbolizes just how strong Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan people truly are Sri Lanka in general has been going through some tough times but I've heard recently you guys got yourself a new president and things seem to be taking a turn in a better Direction and Sri Lankan people no matter what are incredibly resilient and powerful and will always bounce back so on that note this is the beginning of a massive Sri Lankan adventure and I am so excited super super excited and uh in case you guys are wondering what we are up to on this Sri Lanka trip uh the plan is pretty much to try and hit up all of the places that we haven't hello all of the places that we haven't seen the last time so uh we have a lot of empty spots on our Google Maps and we're going to try and fill those spots in with little hearts let's do this absolutely next up let's go grab ourselves some Sri Lankan food we've missed it very very much so and let's check out a little bit of negombo if the rain holds off it doesn't look too Pleasant right now up there in the sky let's see what we can see hello hello back in a TukTuk can you believe it it has been such a long time for us not to riding any Tuk Tuk but now we're back in the land of Tuk Tuk yeah we've missed this so much if you had have watched our first series when we arrived in Sri Lanka we were very cautious about taking Tuk Tuks but now I think we have it figured out from the last time I just download the pick me app and it is very very smooth and simple but yeah it feels nice to be back in the back of the truck trck on our way to get our first Sri Lankan meal I'm absolutely starving and I cannot wait to taste some proper Sri Lankan flavors again thank you so much bye-bye all right it did not take long for the rain to kick in and uh come after us so we made our way here to um ceylon kitchen which looks like a very beautiful place it has a lot of positive reviews as well and yeah it's very well put together it almost looks like you're somewhere uh fancy but I think it's not that fancy we just heard that they have a nice sri lankan style buffet and that's exactly what we're craving right about now so let's give it the shot great thank you so much let's go for the menu I want to say uh for for the buffet it's a buffet Sri Lankan curry vegetable and egg, chicken, fish, pork, beef the different prices the Rices have yellow rice white rice and vegetable that's so okay nice thank you so much thank you which one do you want I think I'm going to go for maybe a egg Buffet egg yeah egg or chicken both of them sound good I'm supposing like if you choose one like an egg buffet or a chicken buffet that's like your base and then you add all the all the re of the ingredients so like rice and doll Curry and all of the amazing Sri Lankan curries that kind of goes around your meat of choice or your dish of choice man I'm so excited it's been so long since we've had like a proper Sri Lankan or South Asian meal so I cannot wait for this so Luke is going to go for egg or chicken I feel like I have to get something else then maybe I'm going to get a beef yeah beef Buffet why not let's try it out so excited for this you canot imagine it the lady said that you can basically choose from this entire Buffet here and then she's going to bring the protein directly to the table so of course you have white rice and yellow rice oh my God that looks too die for that just that one look made me so excited then you have white dhal curry with coconut milk what is this one oh that looks like maybe pumpkin are the pump is this one pumpkin or jack fruit the jack fruit jack fruit okay nice this one is jack fruit have a look okay nice thank you uh spicy potatoes we have green beans oh my God this is never ending this looks like a spicy cabbage ooh what is This Bitter gourd maybe I believe that one should be bitter gourd I want to say eggplant not 100% on this one but it looks like eggplant uh this one I also don't know what is this one the single AAR oh the Sri Lankan aaru Sri Lankan aaru yeah o nice I need to try everything this one the leaves leaves ooh okay vegetable salad nice and papa dams shangan coconut samb oh that was that one looks very good yeah very tasty meat items the pork chicken uh egg ah okay okay nice all right I'm going to make myself a plate I think I cannot wait to okay oh where what do I do with this so scared to break something a look at this beautiful yellow rice absolutely stunning wow it smells so good right of course the Dhal Curry cannot you cannot miss Dhal Curry every single Sri Lankan dish regardless of breakfast lunch or dinner it will always have Dhal curry with it then jack fruit Curry yes I miss jackfruit Curry so much I feel like only really Sri Lanka makes a curry out of jackfruit um of course other in other countries you can eat jackfruit but usually the ripe one not the unripe one and nobody ever makes a curry out of it right spicy potatoes just one or two way green beans I think I will take a little bit of everything just try everything I guess spicy cabbage this one was bitter gourd no I think so it looks like bitter gourd yeah looks like it this one I think spicy aubergine Maybe yeah it looks like brinjal yeah I forgot the name of it see how long we haven't been here I forgot the name of it my God this one I don't know she said the Sri Lanka name to me just like two seconds ago but I already forgot Green Leaves we can skip the salad no let's get a papadam one two and of course a nice little chilly can you believe how beautiful that looks yes so I went are basically the same or very similar at least as to what Naomi got so um I didn't go for dll because uh Dal is definitely like Naomi's favorite dish I went like heavier with um this stuff here so the chili coated potatoes green beans uh this here which is like I think like kind of a chili cabbage of sorts and bral bral is like legitimately my number one Sri Lankan food if I had to pick something to live off of like if I was stuck in Sri Lanka and I had to eat something for like 30 days straight or whatever just to survive it would be brel it is delicious that and seini sambal those two are unbelievable and I went and mixed my rice so I have a combination of white rice and the yellow rice combined together just cuz I couldn't really make an actual like in informed decision as to which rice I wanted to go for but rice is the staple of pretty much every Sri Lankan dish so keep that in mind if there's no rice you haven't really eaten in Sri Lanka and that's what a local will tell you that straight to your face if you don't have rice you don't have food so I'm so so excited to give this a go right now go give it a try I'll give it a shot yeah now I'm going to at attempt and when I say attempt I'm going to attempt to use my hand it is clean so all good I'm going to attempt to use my hand because that is the right way to eat in Sri Lanka uh the forks knives spoons you'll see those being used a lot in Southeast Asia but in here in South Asia Sri Lanka and India as well you're going to see the majority of people using their hand especially in like an authentic sort of a setting like that so I'm going to try and like mix my rice together and then I'm going to just sort of Select different pieces of it so I'll get green beans a little bit of the Cabbage a little bit of the brinjal all as well put it together in a nicely sort of a little almost like it's like you're kind of Mixing concrete together and then it comes together in one ball like this I've never really truly figured out how to properly do this and then you just pop it in your mouth wow the flavors are unbelievable wow that's actually immediately kicking me with spice which I've missed I've missed it so much my voice is literally breaking from the spice there's something in there that has a lot of red chili in it I've missed this a lot because we've spent a lot of time traveling around in different countries in eastern Asia recently South Korea China also spent a lot of time in Thailand because it's one of our favorite places to just sort of hang out in food in Thailand is spicy food in China you can find spicy food the food in Korea is definitely spicy it's probably the spiciest of those three but here in Sri Lanka the spice is on a different category and I don't mean spicier I mean it just tastes different and you'll know what I mean if you ever visit Sri Lanka oh these potatoes are quite literally coated in this beautiful red chili most westerners oh my God most westerners if you were to just look at this potato they wouldn't eat it I guarantee you but for us after spending we spent three months traveling all over Sri Lanka the last time we were here and we absolutely fell in love with the food and it's no different now oh I'm telling you that brinjal is so good so brinjal is basically eggplant it's an eggplant sort of a curry um it look very very sort of a sticky consistency with onions and the flavor of it is just beautiful really sort of a strong Umami flavor off of it I'm going to give some of this chicken here a go as well now Sri Lanka they they like to use the bones in a lot of their meat so you do have to be careful I think that's another reason why a lot of people use their hands as well because when you use your hands you can properly feel the food and you can also it's the most sort of organic and natural way to have the proper flavor of the fluid as well I'm going to go in for a bite of this chicken oh my God that's seriously good the curry here in Sri Lanka consists of a lot of spices as well oh our drinks yeah yeah thank you thank you like I was saying the chicken here guys it consists of a lot of spices now now cardamom cinnamon things like that cinnamon obviously Sri Lanka is probably I think the number one in the world when it comes to cinnamon and Cinnamon Production so you're going to find it pretty heavily featured in a lot of Sri Lankan food and I can taste the cinnamon kick off of this chicken the meat is tender incredibly juicy and it goes perfectly with every single thing here on this plate I'm in heaven right now seriously first day back here the weather is not good I'm not going to lie it's raining pretty heavily well I have a plate full of beautiful food so I'm happy I cannot believe my emotions being behind the camera the entire time just having to wait for Luke to finish his food to try all of his food I was just like let me try my food oh patience is not something that I'm good at at all in case you've ever met me you will know I'm not a patient person okay let's go and try and mix some of this beautiful Curry and also I got the beef so I have some beef on top here by the way Luke's reaction to the spicy the spiciness level of the food the spice level made me question my choice of bringing a chili with me I was like oh maybe this is like tourist level of spice but might not be tourist level of spice it is so good I cannot believe it you guys I've been waiting for this moment for two entire years two years no Sri Lankan food it's so difficult to find authentic Sri Lankan food in other countries as well I feel like you will always find a Pakistani or an Indian or something like that very rarely will you find a Sri Lanka now why is that it's very odd any who let's go and give a try to the brinjal I believe that's Luke's favorite it's not my favorite but it's Luke's favorite oh yes that is beautiful my personal favorite will probably forever be the dhal I don't know I'm just in love with the the color of it how yellow orange it is the consistency lentil it's just beautiful nice I always feel like bitter gourd if it's prepared properly it kind of tastes a little bit like the bitter sister of the zucchini maybe if that makes sense and I remember two years ago um some local I believe it was Nilukshan I'm not 100% sure told us that while you are making bitterer dishes you're not allowed to talk because if you talk the bitter gourd will get more bitter apparently I don't know how accurate that is but uh yeah the cook here definitely was not talking while making this beautiful bitter gourd it is bitter but it's not it's not like Blow Your Face Off bitter so it's nice it's good and the beef nice and tender beautiful flavors in the beef and um the beef of course is cooked in large Curry leaves and that's also something I believe that is very very commonly used in Sri Lankan um Cuisine is the large Curry Leaf basically instead of I mean they also use probably Curry powders but um you will always find the curry leaves as well in every single dish let's go and give the jack fruit Curry a try that's very nice it's a nice sort of potatoey consistency but it's um it has the fructose so it has kind of a little bit of the sweetness because obviously jack fruit is a fruit not a potato not a vegetable oh sorry kind of missed my mouth there beautiful I'm so happy I couldn't be happier this is the perfect first place to come to for Sri Lankan food okay so that Buffet came to a grand total of of 4,500 rupees which is roughly around $15 or 14 so cost wise unbelievable because we could go back as many times as we want have as much rice as we want as much brinjal as we want and trust me I cashed in on that brinjal um unbelievable we really wanted to show you guys more of negombo but it's currently quite literally apocalyptic rain pummeling down right now but we want to say we are very very glad to be back here in Sri Lanka we have so many videos coming your way and we hope that we can show you a very special and unique side to this Paradise Island this time around we have a lot of unique and interesting places that we're going to be hitting up and we're very very excited to bring you guys along with us exactly the last time we were a little bit more on the tourist route I feel like and uh this time around we're going to try and uh do a little bit of the local round now being in negombo of course we're very close to the beach right now so we are actually in the tourist area but uh we're going to change that really quickly I guess yeah we're going to be basically first off we're going to have a video coming your way that's going to dive into a very interesting side of Colombo and then from there on we're going to keep it a secret for now but for now my name is Luke my name is Naomi we are the mad two explorers and this is your reminder to keep exploring we'll see you guys in the next Sri Lankan Adventure HTI for watching byee byebye
2024-11-29 00:30
