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Ceylon Hutt, Adelaide – by Joe Paiva ( Adelaide, Australia) Image Source : Ceylon Hut, photographs taken by Paul Lakatos of Adelaide (State Library of South Australia) A special thanks to the State Library of SA for providing access to the above and other photos in this article . Ceylon Hut was a well known, popular restaurant, for the eqbittous famous Ceylon Lumpri, ( a delious culinary creation by the Dutch Burgher ladies during the Dutch Colonial times. Ceylon Hut was the brain child of the Nelson Joseph family of Ceylon, in the early 1960 in the heart of Adelaide CBD. The restaurant was highly successful for almost 40 years, before it closed in June 2000 when Nayleen (Nelson Joseph’s daughter)and  husband John retired. The Ceylon Hut was a popular lunch-time haunt for many South Australian politicians ( Late Premiers, the likes of charismatic Safari Suited Don Dunstan,  John Bannon, ...