guys today we're having a little bit of a local experience
we are going to have or enjoy some local Sri Lankan food facing on to the incredible
lion Rock here in Sigiriya welcome to Sigiriya and welcome to this local Sri Lankan food experience
that we will be enjoying with the amazing Nilukshan and his wife and of course Naomi as
well let's enjoy we usually cook meals for us for lunch then we stopped somewhere like this
where we can relax and we eat here together with the family so now we are the family
we are the family first I have to wash my hands thank you
okay
great thank you so much
it's so windy
point of view this color paper this is fit and inside it's really special you
will see a leaf special beef okay so you open yours first
oh it's in a Banana leaf wow
you can taste the taste of banana when you eat
so today you have chicken and this is a special leaf sambol made with coconut
and this is a special thing called drumstick it's not chicken, it's called drumstick do you know it?
no I don't, It's really special in Jaffna. In every Jaffna Curry
they have this vegetable in their dishes oh wow so it's really special you have
to eat that it's like this and you have to break it and you have to oh
okay how does it taste it looks like celery yeah
I'm gonna try some first yes let's go for a drumstick how do you break oh okay I broke it
oh not eaten so you don't have to eat the cover just in the middle oh slide it off but the spices
are good to our taste I mean local taste very good you have to try is it spicy yeah just a
little bit spicy so she cooked everything so you can try nice and what is this it's Papadam Papadam
yeah it's made with wheat flour so we I eat this along with the rice so you have to break it first
then mix with rice like this oh nice it adds some sort of a crunchy for the yeah more texture yeah
be careful about the wind yep so now you experience the real
local way of eating meals thank you so much for preparing this is so good hmm
wow that's so tasty so the way you have to eat you have to mix everything together like this
but you have to use only this part but I also not good at that then you have to take the rice
like this then you have to put the tongue out then push the rice from your thumb okay
you use your hand like it's a like a shovel yeah demonstration on how not to do it
it's so good wow so good and not too spicy yeah
and the green stuff is it's uh some sort of a leaf so it's good for the eye view oh good for vision
very good so tasty
what do you think I'm so happy this is so good yeah it's the perfect way to start our stay here
we're so grateful to have you two yeah thank you so much
you're welcome
did you try the drumstick no not yet
so it's made with coconut milk coconut milk
oh that's really interesting the taste of this is really interesting
the texture is a little bit like celery yeah but the taste not
no yeah it's not like that the wind is crazy oh my God
it's a big lunch
right so this is rice it means the seeds is the seeds are very small so when we prepare fried
rice we usually use these seeds this rice yeah and the water level is different I mean depends
with the rice okay so we usually measure water like this is the water limit when we cook rice
we usually put water like this then we get the measurement like this if the rice is here
this is the water level oh it's shallow yeah
no in the pot not in the field oh he thought I thought it in the field
because um Europeans are not very good at cooking rice you know we
we put way too much water and then we we strain it with like a what is it called a sieve
a sieve yes and then it obviously tastes completely different yeah than that you will get a very sticky rice
yeah so we don't usually prefer to have sticky rice oh so we usually wash rice three times yep
and then we cook then a little water limit I told you but our traditional this is milk rice it is
made with rice and milk coconut milk so it's very sticky but we don't prefer to have sticky rice
yeah The Taste is different Japanese rice is sticky rice now yep like the sushi rice is sticky yeah
interesting How it differs from where you are in Asia
I would add green chili green chili so we usually eat green chili green chili yeah this is where the
spice is green chili more or less spicy than the red one yeah some green chilies are very spicy
some not so much
you have to know the plant you have to know the chili plants to
know how spicy it for example chili when you when you have the green chili if it is
like very uh colorful very green color and if it is uh if it is very shiny
it means it's really hot oh it has a shine like shiny it's shiny oh this is so good
I'm so happy this is the best food ever yeah
that's exactly what we needed
thank you
so good
so guys that was a quick little bit of almost a chaotic experience of enjoying some local
Sri Lankan food with some Sri Lankan locals here and this is literally our first couple of minutes
at Sigiriya and the sky just opened up started to rain but we will have plenty more videos
coming your way from Sigiriya as I said we just arrived so expect that very very soon
now guys we apologize for just how kind of crazy and unstructured this particular video
is because to be honest it was totally on the spur of the moment totally unplanned
we were being driven to our new home stay here in Sigiriya by the lovely nilukshan and his wife
from Anuradhapura they drove us all the way here and then they decided to say that they had
prepared us some lovely local food and that's why I was like we have to film this experience and it
was so incredibly special the Sri Lankan people are absolutely out of this world and they treat
you so so well we've never had an experience like this to be honest but we've arrived in Sigiriya
I'm going to give you guys a quick little bit of an accommodation tour here check the room out
hello we have a Naomi of course guys there's always an edition of one of us if not the both
of us but this is the room nice big double bed we have a fan which is very much so needed we are
in the middle literally the middle of a jungle we have an AC as well so there's no worries in
terms of temperature for us for some people an air conditioner is a must-have for us it
doesn't really matter as long as we have a fan like this we had a fan in the last place and it
worked really well sometimes I feel like ACS are a little bit counter productive because obviously
it's really hot outside and then if it's really cold inside you actually tend to get or I get
to tend sick I don't know if that's the same for other people but I get very sick very easily so we
usually don't actually turn on the AC if we have one sometimes like for five minutes or so we do
but it's a rare occasion yeah but we have both so we have a choice this is a massive bed kind
of similar enough to the bed we had the last time only this time it's one we had two massive double
beds in Anuradhapura and we have this big mosquito net as well I think I never actually slept with
one so I'm very curious to see how that's gonna go with the two of us we're both massive so yeah
true true but nonetheless they're gonna feel like a princess oh and look it's doing its job there's
like a little fly on the net so it's keeping him away we also have tea and coffee which if
you know me and you know Naomi Naomi loves her tea and she's actually started drinking coffee again
she quit coffee for a long time but now she's back drinking the coffee and we do have coffee and we have tea
and we have a kettle which if you know anything about Irish people in particular Irish and British
we use kettles and we drink instant coffee typically which a lot of the rest of Europe
thinks is disgusting the Italian in me does not approve the Italian Naomi is really getting
angry right now because obviously Italians love their espresso coffee and their drip coffee and
all of the specialty coffee but guys look at the bathroom it's a big bathroom it's kind of like
a big wet room bathroom so you have one two three shower heads so you're going to be getting
attacked from all different angles from water and then obviously this is where you would take
your shower you've got a toilet you have a one of these things which if you ever travel Asia
you'll know all about this this is kind of to keep your your uh your bottom Parts clean and then you
have a sink as well obviously sink improve it will surprise there's a sink and and we do have
we do have a fridge a mini fridge where we can buy Coke or water or anything like that is this diet
coke dide dide Coke I'm assuming it's Diet Coke but uh we do have some options there's no Diet
Coke in there so I don't know what dide coke is it is a funny word what is this kidney soda
it seems to be a Coca-Cola product but I've never tried this so kinly soda it kind of looks like
a cream soda maybe um you guys it is a handypack but guys you are telling us down in the comments
that we need to do a food video and that's what we're planning on doing soon this was kind of a
food video more of just how the locals treat us as tourists and that is absolutely amazing by the way
but we will have a food video at some stage where we basically just focus on food and typical Sri
Lankan beverages as well and you told us to try elephant house ginger beer egb and actually the
guest house owner nilukshan told us to try that as well so it is on our agenda don't
worry it's coming soon nonetheless guys this is the accommodation that was a quick unorganized
video but it is the whole idea of this video was just kind of an extra insight and an extra
video for you guys we're trying to produce as much videos as we can we typically usually do
twice a week Thursday and Sunday but ever since we came to Sri Lanka you guys have been blowing
up our comment section telling us that we should be posting daily which is literally impossible
because we do work online as well this is not our full-time job yet but yeah we will try and
post as often as we possibly can just because I thought about it right now I would like to
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guys in the next Sri Lankan adventure Sthuthi for watching Sthuthi for watching bye bye guys