We Like Good Food

We have yet to eat some Indian food we don’t like. Perhaps we like some foods more than others, but our plates are always cleaned by the end of every meal. While at Rising Star, we ate dinner together on the roof of the hostel under a long canopy.

Patrick and Myra, of our middle-age group,
enjoying their food unabashedly.
Generally the teenagers sat on a separate table,
the older group in the middle,
and our group on the cool end of the table.

The typical meal was red rice with two or three sauces, mixed fruit (mango, pineapple, etc…), and a wheat or rice bread all served on a banana leaf. 

It was the same food that all of the children and staff ate. Sometimes we were able to eat lunch with the children and this was the same type of food. On the first day they taught us how to properly eat with our hands – it is quite effective.

Too often we sit down to a meal at some restaurant or hotel and wish we had a camera, but just can’t wait to eat and never end up getting any pictures. Some of our favorite dishes are: 

Parotha

Any Paneer dish (cottage cheese cubes)

Rogan Josh

Anything with the word Masala (which just means a mixture of spices)

Tandoori anything

Sambar (breakfast)

And the popular chicken or veg. tikka masala is even better here

The majority of Indian dishes (and restaurants), it seems, are vegetarian. At first we were always looking for something with chicken or mutton in it, but once we discovered how delicious the vegetarian dishes were, there was a whole new world of delicious food for us to try.

While we were in Sri Lanka, we sought out typical Sri Lankan food as well. It also consists mainly of rice and curry, but is on average much spicier. The places we visited also seemed to have a larger portion of the menu dedicated to sea food. We didn’t like it quite as much as Indian, but we really enjoyed a few dishes along the way, like the tomato soup at this restaurant on the way to Kandy. It had the most amazing view. 

At most restaurants, we spend around $10 for a full meal for both of us including two main dishes, rice, at least two types of naan, a couple bottles of water, and often big ice cream dessert. Some of the best values include veg. Samosas at some corner stores which cost about twenty cents for three and Parotha, which fills one of us up for about fifty cents on average.

Mmm!