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Sri Lanka is among Kuoni’s top five performing destinations ... releasing a sap into a clay pot. It is later processed into arrack, providing the tapper with an income. Back on the beach, in the ...
Having spent over nine months in Sri Lanka, I’ve become fairly well acquainted with the Colombo hotel scene. There are the chains, some global, some local, which take up space in sprawling buildings ...
They also controlled much of the coastal trade in arrack and other coconut products between Ceylon and Madras. The lucrative raw cotton trade was another line of their business, which they lost ...
Pair it all with a well-crafted cocktail (we opted for the Arrack Old Fashioned ... offering an authentic taste of Sri Lanka through innovative creations by award-winning chef Sylvia Perera. Perera’s ...
By Mujib MashalPamodi Waravita and Saif Hasnat Reporting from New Delhi, Colombo, and Dhaka Through Covid, political chaos, and economic disarray, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh kept one industry ...
Sri Lanka’s first international tourism campaign ... fancy version of a s’more on the dessert menu. They have the best arrack sours in Colombo [arrack is a liquor made from the fermented ...
And while you can cover Hiri’s hits in a long weekend, I spent an entire month here, surfing, sipping on arrack cocktails, and reacquainting myself with my favorite piece of Sri Lanka.
The hotel bar specializes in arrack-based drinks, and the food menu includes babath, a tripe dish prepared with coconut and lemongrass rooted in Sri Lanka’s Malay community. Doubles start at $ ...
The kappi martini blends Ceylon arrack with coffee liqueur and cinnamon ... It upsets me that I’ve not been to Sri Lanka: endlessly warm, I hear, and tropical. I’ll get there eventually.