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A common dessert in Sri Lanka is kevum, an oil cake made with rice flour and treacle and deep-fried to a golden brown. There are many variations of kevum. There are many variations of kevum. Moong Kevum is a variant where mung bean flour is made into a paste and shaped like diamonds before frying.
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A seafood basket, also known as the fisherman's basket, is a fried dish usually consisting of fried seafood including fish fillet, prawns and calamari. [1] Additional foods used can include fried scallops, [2] oysters [3] and crab sticks. It typically includes one or more dipping sauces, such as cocktail sauce, [1] and may include chips.
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [40] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [41]
Mirissa is the largest fishing port on the south coast and is known for its tuna, mullet, snapper, and butterfish. In 1980 the first tourist accommodation was built, and in the mid-1990s tourism to the town started to increase dramatically.
By the 1980s, 90% of the farmland in Sri Lanka was being used to cultivate the "semi-dwarf" (newly improved) rice variety. Currently, 95% of the rice produced in Sri Lanka are hybrid varieties. These are harvested using non- organic fertilizer and pesticides which are needed to produce larger harvests with lower costs.
Galle Face Green is a 5 ha (12 acres) ocean-side urban park, which stretches for 500 m (1,600 ft) along the coast, in the heart of Colombo, the financial and business capital of Sri Lanka. The promenade was initially laid out in 1859 by Governor Sir Henry George Ward, although the original Galle Face Green extended over a much larger area than ...
Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings is an LMD 100 company. LMD 100 ranks listed companies in Sri Lanka by revenue annually. In the 2020/21 edition published in 2022, Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings ranked 91st down from 55th rank in the previous year due to a 70% revenue decline. [14]