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Lunch Packets and Short Eats
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Published 2009
Short trips around the country are very popular in Sri Lanka—everyone goes on road trips together, either crammed into government and private coaches or using their own transport. We were fortunate enough to have a large van, so we would squeeze in as many people as we could and off we’d go.
The food was very important and lunch packets were carefully prepared the night before, with Achi and my Mum and all the aunties very busy. A lunch packet was a ritual: firstly, we would make the curries, often Ambul thial, a dry tuna curry, and then we would cook the rice. This was normally samba rice which is a pungent, small-grained rice known as ‘chicken teeth’. We usually added dahl and vegetables as well.