Top 07 Sri Lankan Street Food Items – Add zest to your holiday with these ubiquitous food delights!

A street food loved by most people, this is made whilst you watch and dished out hot. A flavourful mix of godamba roti strips with chopped crunchy vegetables, onions, and meat with a fistful of spices and a dash of chilli or tomato sauce. Breaking an egg or a cheese slice as it is made on the hot griddle gives it a yummy taste relished by many guests at hotels in Bentota.

This deep-fried crisp snack comes in various shapes and tastes. Isso vadei with a prawn or two on top, the masala vadei made with lentils and ulundu vadei made out of orid flour with a hole in the middle resembling a mini doughnut. These are hot favourites eaten just by themselves or with a spicy chutney made of grated coconut.

This light and healthy preparation from rice flour and coconut milk are dished out hot from the mini woks with an onion fry. Resembling an upturned pancake, the hopper is crisp on the outer ring with a soft middle. Egg hoppers are even better with an egg cracked onto the middle as it cooks in the wok and seasoned with pepper and salt. This popular street food is enjoyed in the morning and during the evenings and is also a hot favourite of visitors at Avani Bentota.

This finger food is a typical Sri Lankan creation to fill you up on the go. They come in different shapes and fillings, the vegetable roti, egg roti, chicken or beef roti and fish roti according to the preference of the customer. Godamba roti is stuffed with the filling of your choice and gets cooked on a hot griddle. Served piping hot with sauce, they ooze in different flavours.

You see these golden-hued fruit being sold on many busy streets all around Sri Lanka. A great thirst quencher Thambili is full of nutrients. The fruit is cut creating a small opening on the top to pass through a straw and savour the heavenly goodness. Enjoyed by the young and the old alike this must be tasted whilst you are in Sri Lanka.

Another tasty street food sold all over Sri Lanka this savoury is made out of flour and semolina. Stuffed with tempered potato, green peas and onions well seasoned with spices and deep-fried until golden. For meat lovers beef or chicken, samosa is available. Served with mint chutney or sauce of your choice. A tasty and filling finger food.

This is the Sri Lankan version of potato chips. The manioc is skinned and cut into paper-thin slices and deep-fried until golden, well seasoned with chilli powder, pepper and salt these are sold at street corners all over Sri Lanka, a must-try street food.