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so welcome everyone to Texas
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we are in Fort Worth right now
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Texas was an independent country City
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can you guess the cost of these ads and
how much Max you go from 500 to
5000. wow
but if you have seen this city that
means you've been to Texas can you guess
the cost of a hat without power
basketball
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they are like I mean I feel sad for the
animal killings they are making Through
The Furs of rabbit and other animals
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this is the only city I've seen culture
coffee butter
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so hello everyone will be Dallas Texas
is so humble and nice
dinner in a Sri Lankan restaurant
in New Jersey
but eventually when I moved to Dallas
it's one of the most authentic Sri
Lankan dishes
we have taken many of my friends to that
same restaurant
Sri Lankan restaurants
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one of his favorite actually yeah
so it's a pan uh fried flavored rice
with natural spices like clove cardamom
ginger garlic onion cashews with the
rice itself and it goes with Ash
plantain cooked deep fried and cooked
with the spices this is kind of onion
Chutney type Tamarind and spice base
Chutney Chutney onion Chutney this is a
eggplant Mojo like a pickle version
yeah yeah then this is Veggie cutlets
egg and Dal Curry so we're gonna have
the Banana Leaf just put it on the flat
top
this is a sterilizing process they
already cleaned them sterilize them but
we do another process just like how my
grandma did it
so if any bacteria anything of the
banana Olive it salaries itself and it
gives you a nice flavor
so it goes to uh this is a kind of
regular foil because on the regular foil
and which which part of Sri Lanka does
this come from this is actually all
around Sri Lanka this is originally from
Dutch Dutch but we have convertible yeah
we have a colony right Sri Lanka was a
colony and we were influenced from all
different part of the carnival world so
this is a Dutch into one dish but we
have converted into our version so if
you go to a Holland or somewhere else
and you find in uh the lamp right this
is not what you're gonna get oh so this
is Sri Lankan Style
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and the doll goes right on the top
this part of Sri Lanka are you from I'm
from western part of this like a like a
western part of the country bit side
Columbus a city called and in my honest
view in Dallas Fort Worth area this is
by far one of my most favorite
restaurants
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next can we eat Leaf as well no no don't
try just uh this is the uh just the
flavor and the authenticity that's it
okay so this is uh Dal on the top and
then you have a veggie cutlet here then
you have one egg here
oh plantains the plantains
eggplant eggplant huh
uh onions
with cashews and spices okay it's all
really good
coconut coconut
rice
some somewhat similar to Italy
bittu is also common to Kerala actually
yeah
if I'm not mistaken oh exciting
numbers
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extra short of the pot
ions
once again so this is good yes
what is that made of made of egg and
flour okay in this and this is cream
caramel like cream Karma yeah
the curd what lapa and cream caramel
if you buy it while it is
so this is yogurt as a dessert
likes it more than I do just because
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I have questions regarding the hard work
it takes to make a restaurant like this
so how you started and how it happened I
started cooking a very young age around
16 17 years old then I kind of liken it
and then we decided to go to other
school get graduated work for uh biggest
people in Sri Lanka like jetween the
beach type of a restaurant got that
experienced in Winter Street from Sri
Lanka to Singapore for my head education
then I finish up UK exams as well so
what did you study there all Hospitality
related subjects like cooking The
Culinary the housekeeping the front desk
and the bar management all different
Hospitality management all type of
related to hospitality I really wanted
to do something very authentic you know
whenever I want to go out and eat I I
found good restaurant Belling it's all
commercialized they all focus on money
other people and I could not find a
really good restaurant that I can eat go
eat every single day or a week so that's
the thought to open up spicy says so the
name and the website basic website all
came from myself so I created that name
uh even though it's a Sri Lankan place
there is no Sri Lankan influence with
the name countless sleepless nights a
lot of hard words so you just converted
your apartment to a restaurant no no no
it was like a catering business so I
cooked from the apartment department and
the level the food so you deliver cook
in your apartment and deliver it for the
people yeah you have a small birthday
party for 20 people you call me place
the order so I cook the food delivered
to your place how how you manage
everything like you had hired people no
no at that point it's just my wife she's
a doctor's she's my backbone still we
are working so close together right now
I work basically actually actual
operation she does all the back work
like filing taxes payroll and all kind
of financial works and stuff so then in
2016 we were able to move into a
commercial Place With No table no chairs
just a place very small tiny spot in
Farmers Branch just for catering just
just for catering but we had a little
Outlet like people can come in place the
order but there is no table no chairs
like that so it's a small commercial
kitchen with the outlet when you walk
into the restaurant at that time it
wasn't promising anything it was like a
people even think should I eat you or
shouldn't I eat but when they see the
plate they goes really oh wow this is
what I get so that's how I did it I have
never ever lowered down the quality we
have overcome so many hurdles especially
pandemic
over the any kind of hassle I struggle a
lot with financially in the beginning
because I had thrown up all my money to
open up the business and it took about
four years to get back to a certain
level of financial right now we have the
biggest Buffet probably in entire world
biggest Sri Lankan Buffet not in Dallas
not in USA not in any other country
maybe the biggest Sri Lankan buffet in
the entire world probably in Sri Lanka
if anybody want to claim it claim it but
I claim it already yeah USA has probably
another I would say 20 another
restaurant in the United States
go there and see what they offer and you
every time you go to a different Sri
Lankan place you will remember spices
because anybody can come into my place
in the morning night dinner doesn't
matter they get everything entire menu
in time I knew everything every single
time every single day every single
minute
plus real sugar soda fountains it's not
the coke it's you know people love to uh
drink Mexican Coke versus a regular Coke
why they use the real sugar yes my
restaurant offer Fountain drinks with
that yeah because in America everywhere
you see it is actually corn syrup sugar
yeah salt sugar like what you call the
fructose fructose yeah
it is
yeah imagine you are a vegetarian and
you are 100 vegan you don't get lost and
you don't get like a very limited
options to try to know you have plenty
of dishes to try even you are a vegan
not vegetarian vegan with no milk no
Dairy nothing
mindlessly so that's why I claimed as
the the biggest buffet in the world uh
because we offered that amount of food
and any any piece of advice to all South
Asians Indians Sri Lankans Pakistani
everyone voting yeah I mean I honestly
kindly request people to do a better
food I know it's so hard
for the next year 2023 Toby my 10th year
being in the business if you plan to
open up a restaurant at least be
educated once you have money don't just
go ahead and open up a restaurant
because though you don't know what you
are doing and you don't you cannot make
it right you don't know how to correct
things in the world static success two
years restaurant operation is only six
person
we maintain all the really good hygiene
practices my entire employees they are
all food certified they know what they
are doing Klaus use sanitations you you
smell the the floor clean already so the
the table the everything we maintain the
cleanliness the quality and the proper
ingredients and the proper skill people
to work with so that's all I can say but
on financial wise you might struggle
yeah it might definitely struggle
because like other other businesses they
have bigger profit margins yes I don't
what are the profit margins like profit
margins it's like 10 usually restaurants
have like when I talk to restaurants
they have like 20 30 percent it's very
nice like
if I can make it 10 percent that'd be
nice yeah it's barely 10 percent with
the the ingredients we use Chloe
cardamom ginger garlic cumin cinnamon
you know curry powder chili powder
pepper the paprika saffron uh turmeric
powder
those are the spices we use to thicken
and make your Foods so that wouldn't go
wrong this is the money I make for my
family and all other these people I am
blessed so blessed for some reason yeah
that's a that's a brilliant mindset
thank you so much thank you so much for
your time and your pleasure thanks for
bringing them up here yeah really
appreciate that and hope I see you uh
probably very soon yeah maybe on the
buffet so you can exactly see what I'm
doing here absolutely thank you so much
yeah
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