Monthly Archives: December 2014

Our first Sri Lankan dinner on the night of our arrival: rice, dal, pappadam and FIVE different veg curries – it cost 1600 rupees for two to order dinner from the house maid delivered in the evening.

Our first breakfast: fried eggs, toast, fruits, yogurt, tea and lime water – maybe 100 rupees max

Our first night eating out: veg fried rice, fried onion curry, steamed rice, mix fruit milkshake and a beer – around 1750 rupees

A lunch at home: fried egg, cucumber and milk for the wee one, masala omelet and tea for the grown ups – the milk costs around 180 rupees per litre, rest maybe 50 rupees

Three fishes from the fishermen on the beach in front of the house – 250 rupees

Dinner at home: the aforementioned three fish and sweet potato and red rice – 250 for the fish but that was pretty much it. The beer costs around 200 rupees for a 0.66 litre bottle.

Fruit salad, about 700 rupees (that Pitahaya [lohikäärmehedelmä] is quite expensive)

A lunch time snack: veg rotis and egg rolls – 180 rupees (for these Mirissa really has inflated tourist prices)

An afternoon snack: yogurt with apple and woodapple crumble – the yogurt here seems to be always flavored with something (like vanilla) even though it is not mentioned on the labels.

Dinner by the sea. The good thing about having dinner on the beach was that it was easy for Eero to run around without causing too much disturbance. The bad thing is that the menu is pretty much the same in every place, though the quality can very a lot.

Another dinner at the beach. Like said the menu is pretty much the same in every place, and they all seem to have happy hour from 5pm to 9pm when you can get beer and drinks cheaper. The beer usually costs around 250 rupees and drinks around 300. We took two “digestives” and both of them tasted pretty bad :)

Ordered breakfast: plain and egg hoppers, tea, fruit and woodapple nectar – 400 rupees for the hoppers.

Another breakfast: Masala omelet, tea, coffee, fruit and toast – the pineapple is the most costly here. One costs around 150-180 rupees.

Selfmade lunch: egg fried noodles (from red rice noodles) – comes out pretty cheap and good. We’ve had many worse tasting fried noodles before.

Our first time dinner, almost already eaten, at the excellent Glass House restaurant – veg soup (that empty bowl), rice & curry, onion & cucumber salad and pineapple and watermelon juices. Total price 1000 rupees.

A lunch in Matara at the Galle Oriental Bakery. It was not a bakery as we know it, instead it catered pretty much the same lunch menu as everywhere else: rice & curry and variety of different roti & roll. Rice & curry (with supreb brinjals at the bottom) and some fish & veg buns.

Yet another dinner at home enjoying Malani’s excellent food. Again five curries, dal and rice.

A dinner at the Glass House restaurant which became a bit of a favourite: tomato & onion salad, grilled fish and rice & curry – we got to go to the fish market some 30 meters away with the owner and chose together the fish he then prepared for us. The fish cost 140 rupees and for the preparing they took 50 rupees. Total bargain as in the beach restaurants they charge anything from 750 & up for any fish. Also Eero got as a present from the fishmonger those four prawns beside the fishes.

Our last dinner at Mirissa. We got the food from the Glass House again, though this time as take away. The prices were still very unbeatable in Mirissa – 300 rupees for TWO rice & curry AND they threw in an extra salad for us