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Cook up a Sri Lankan spread from O Tama Carey’s new cookbook – by O TAMA CAREY Source:goodfood.com.au O Tama Carey didn’t intend to open a restaurant. But after stumbling into a career in hospitality – and cooking everything from French and Italian, Japanese and Chinese – she decided to tap her Sri Lankan heritage for her next move, opening a shop selling hoppers, the bowl-shaped pancakes with crisp edges, fluffy interiors and slightly tangy flavour that are such a feature of Lankan cuisine. The shop morphed into a restaurant, Lankan Filling Station, which she opened in Sydney’s Darlinghurst in 2018. Now she’s on a mission to introduce more people to the cuisine she has grown up with, in her cookbook Lanka Food: Serendipity & Spice, which distils family recipes, ideas from her travels in Sri Lanka, dishes that evolved because of the produce we have available in Australia and her own ideas based on her ...