Colombo Trip Overview
Enjoy a private and authentic Sri Lankan cooking class and home-cooked meal with your host Duneeshya. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Duneeshya has fond childhood memories of learning to cook from her mother. After obtaining her graduate degree and working for a few years, she realized that cooking was her true passion – it brought her so much joy. She therefore decided to start her own food business and share her love for authentic Sri Lankan food with travelers visiting her country. Duneeshya has a genuine passion for teaching and cooking home style Sri Lankan cuisine, the food she grew up eating. She lives with her mother and German husband, who may be a part of the experience whenever they are around. “I like to meet people from different cultures and to share my culinary and cultural knowledge with them.”
Additional Info
Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Cooking Classes
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Enjoy a private and authentic Sri Lankan cooking class and home-cooked meal with your host Duneeshya. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Duneeshya has fond childhood memories of learning to cook from her mother. After obtaining her graduate degree and working for a few years, she realized that cooking was her true passion – it brought her so much joy. She therefore decided to start her own food business and share her love for authentic Sri Lankan food with travelers visiting her country. Duneeshya has a genuine passion for teaching and cooking home style Sri Lankan cuisine, the food she grew up eating. She lives with her mother and German husband, who may be a part of the experience whenever they are around. “I like to meet people from different cultures and to share my culinary and cultural knowledge with them.”
Itinerary
This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Join Duneeshya in her kitchen and learn to cook home style Sri Lankan dishes that you will later share together. Duneeshya has an old, Sri Lankan style kitchen that does not have modern equipment or cabinets. The kitchen can get a bit crowded so she has set up a small table on the side where you will prep ingredients before entering the kitchen for the final cooking. You will start your cooking class by helping Duneeshya prep for the meal by cutting vegetables and grating coconut the traditional way. During your two hour hands-on cooking class, you will learn to make dhal curry (lentils), fish ambulthiyal (sour fish curry), gotu kola sambol (salad), coconut sambol, beans curry and watalappam (coconut custard pudding). Afterwards, sit down together with Duneeshya at her dining table to enjoy the meal you have just cooked.
