“LANKAN LAMPTRAYS” – by Des Kelly It was just while ago that we featured the original Lamprias on e’ Lanka with pride (and mouths watering), at the same time, now, my dear friend Victor Melder has forwarded what could well be termed the Lankan version of this superb dish, complete with the culinary skills required at present, in a Country that is right now facing dire difficulties in feeding themselves at all. It has taken this simple Couple a determined effort to set up an “eatery”featuring what they proudly call “Lamptrays”, and with the shortages of nearly everything to do with cooking a tasty Lankan dish, Naadira J., and her husband must be fully congratulated for setting up “Lamptrays” in 2021. It does not take too much of an imagination to figure out that it has to be so very much more difficult at present, to carry on with their ...

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Dish Sri Lankan Street Food – Regional Sri Lankan lunch served on banana leaves..starting from 14th June     Dish Sri Lankan Street Food are excited to be your Guides as you travel through Sri Lankan village style cooking featuring different regions of Sri Lanka served on Banana Leaves. The only Lock down you need to be in is Lunch on Sunday 14th June! Menu includes Entree, Main & Dessert Cost$ 35 pp strictly limited number of seats available 2 sittings 1st sitting starting 11am till 1.00pm 2nd Sitting from 1.00pm till 2.30pm $35 per person Kids under 12 years $20 call 02 8626 2169 or info@dishevents.com.au http //restaurant.dishevents.com.au/contact      ...

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Rice Banana Leaves and Lamprais – By Dr. Tilak S Fernando By Dr. Tilak S Fernando The response to one of my articles titled ‘Burgher Community in Sri Lanka,’ some time ago has been appreciated by many of my Burgher friends, both abroad in Australia and in Sri Lanka. My good friend, Egerton, decided to comment on it, in typical old school ‘Sri Lankan English’ as he put it by saying thus:  “My friends join me in saying a big thank you to you for your ever interesting, highly informative, authentic, brazenly outspoken and lucidity of style of your column, which acted as a ‘prophylactic’ against an exacerbated degree of hebetudinosity in this personalised Super Nova of an exalted terrain deluged with languorous survival kit,” some of which, I must admit, went completely over my head! The most interesting part of the article was identified as the section on ‘Lamprais,’ which was referred to in a special souvenir designed as a ‘valuable keepsake’ during the 90th ...

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