Sri Lankan Sates

Most people associate satés (aka satays) with Southeast Asia, particularly with Indonesia, Malaysia, or Singapore. But you also find them in Sri Lanka—a notion that isn’t as far-fetched as it might seem. The principle of kebabs seems to have arrived in Indonesia with Arab traders in the twelfth century A.D. Sri Lanka certainly could have been a stopping point on the way. Or maybe, and even more likely, meat on a stick was an obviously good idea that sprang up in many parts of the world at o