Sri Lankan Cuisine is enriched with various varieties of spices and vegetables that add mesmerizing color to dishes that hypnotize you with flavor and smell. Sri Lankan cuisine has been shaped by many historical, cultural and other factors. Contact with foreign traders who brought new food items, cultural influences from neighboring countries as well as the local traditions of the country's ethnic groups among other things have all helped shape Sri Lankan cuisine. Influences from Indian (particularly South Indian), Indonesian and Dutch cuisines are most evident with Sri Lankan cuisine sharing close ties to other neighboring South and Southeast Asian cuisines. Today, some of the staples of Sri Lankan cuisine are rice, coconut, and spices. The latter are used due to the country's history as a spice producer and trading post over several centuries.

With Lotus DMC Lanka, You will also get the opportunity to cook with a local and experience first hand, how flavoring is done. You can witness the variety of spices used to enrich the color, smell and the taste of Sri Lankan cuisine.