First Time Trying SRI LANKAN FOOD 🇱🇰 in Melbourne | Amazing LAMPRAIS, EGG HOPPERS, KOTTU ROTI

Super excited about this video of our first time trying Sri Lankan food in Melbourne!! We haven't explored much about Sri Lankan food before and we clearly missed out a lot. We found out that there is a suburb, called Glen Waverley in Melbourne where we can find quite a lot of Sri Lankan restaurants. Of course, we had to visit this suburb for our epic Sri Lankan food adventure.
In this video, we had a list of 8 Sri Lankan dishes we tried to tick off and we did it!! They are:
1. Vegetable Patties (Elavalu)
2. Stringhoppers
3. Coconut Rotti
4. Devilled Chicken
5. Kottu Roti
6. Lamprais
7. Hoppers
8. Wattalappan
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Timestamps
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0:00 Intro
1:14 Upali's Restaurant
1:51 Vegetable Patties (Elavalu)
3:33 Stringhoppers
5:39 Coconut Rotti (Pol Rotti)
7:00 Devilled Chicken
8:17 Wattalappan
9:45 Kottu Roti
11:11 Lamprais
13:33 Hoppers
Address
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Upali's Melbourne
248 Blackburn Rd, Glen Waverley VIC 3150
www.upalismelbourne.com.au/
Spicy Flames Mount Waverley
191 Blackburn Rd, Mount Waverley VIC 3149
spicyflames.com.au/
Corlam Kitchen
252 Blackburn Rd, Glen Waverley VIC 3150
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[@TwoHungryDiners]

Have you tried Sri Lankan food before? If you have, what's your favourite Sri Lankan dish? We absolutely love the lamprais and egg hoppers, definitely a must-have! 😍

[@PuriandSue]

Not yet! But we would love to try!!

[@TwoHungryDiners]

@@PuriandSue hope you guys can find Sri Lankan food in KL 😊

[@lostgirl2798]

You should check out Sri lankan rice and curry. There is lots of currys in Sri lanka....

[@jayf4005]

Sorry guys what you had was nothing close to a authentic Lamprais.. That’s a sorry excuse of a massive rice and curry pack wrapped in a banana leaf.. Surprising you couldn’t find real Lamprais with a well established Dutch Burgher community in Melbourne

[@TwoHungryDiners]

@@jayf4005 it’s not that we couldn’t find it. We need to explore more restaurants. As the title suggests, this is our first time trying Sri Lankan food. There are many more Sri Lankan restaurants to discover in Melbourne. In this video we have only visited three restaurants in Glen Waverley. In Melbourne there are hundreds of suburbs, it will take time to find and ask around what you call an authentic lamprais. If you know what an authentic one should look like, and have a place selling it here in Melbourne, please let us know 😊

[@lindyralph8792]

Yuum! My partner is Sri Lankan, yesterday we went to his brother's place and had stringhoppers, chicken curry and mackeral curry with homemade pol sambol and also seeni sambol which is the onion one. Hoppers are my favourite, especially with a curry such as black pork curry, SO good. One of my other favourites is the eggplant that Peter loved, my mother-in-law used to make a really good one. There are some places on Centre Road Clayton that you could try in the future, one is a grocer that sells ready to eat food as well called Cakepoint, you can get stringhoppers as well as hot food like pan rolls to take away. There are also a couple of small Sri Lankan restaurants in the same strip.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

We need to try Sri Lankan curry next time! Oh yes we had the seeni sambol too in the lamprais. How good is that eggplant dish 😍 We’ll check out Centre Rd In Clayton one day. Thanks for the suggestion ❤️

[@PhilShnider]

😭

[@travelguide8485]

Hi

[@nickandhelmi]

We love Sri Lankan food, so underrated seriously. Glad you guys enjoy it too😋

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Agree that it is so underrated. We need try more dishes in the future. 🤤

[@nickandhelmi]

Kottu Roti is the best💯 I can eat that everyday, seriously soooo good🤤

[@achiniindrachapa3395]

Proud to be a Srilankan 💪❤️

[@pradeepweerasinghe4201]

Really😅😂, for what?

[@acidbunny2439]

@@pradeepweerasinghe4201 😅😂

[@OnlyGaruda]

Discovered Kottu a couple of years ago through a Sri Lankan friend and it's become one of my go to comfort foods; it's an incredibly underappreciated dish.

[@LifetimeTravelmates]

the amount of kottu roti is huge!! ohhh lamprais! looks incredible... this episode really brings us back to our Sri Lanka trip memory... 😄

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Your Sri Lankan series is super cool! Would love to go for a Sri Lankan adventure one day 😍

[@pandaexpress1319]

Great video guys. Sri Lankan food is underrated in my opinion and definitely deserves more attention. My favourite is kottu! :) By the way, hoppers are usually served for dinner in Sri Lankan restaurants both in Sri Lanka and overseas.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for watching! Ah I see! That’s what we read from online articles too, no wonder most of the restaurants serve it during dinner time here. The egg hoppers are so perfect for breakfast though! 😆

[@happywo526]

As a sri lankan i fall in love with koththu. ❤️

[@sharonmckenzie1522]

Thank you for always bringing different content every week that doesn't include popular fast food. There's so much more that Melbourne has to offer. You deserve to have more subscribers. Keep up the great work!

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for the lovely comment! Yes, we always try to feature local delicacies and small businesses as much as possible. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@prashanigperera2513]

Thank you very much for trying Sri Lankan food, my beautiful native country. Sri Lanka is home to many religions, ethnic groups, and languages. In addition to the majority Sinhalese, it is home to large groups of Sri Lankan and Indian Tamils, Moors, Burghers, Malays, and the aboriginal Vedda. Being colonized by three different cultures has influenced the culture of Sri Lanka to the point that all three are still present in the country today to a certain extent. I welcome you to my motherland Sri Lanka , Taprobane, or the famous "Pearl of the Indian Ocean" to explore more about our habits of generosity, kindness, food , culture and Hospitality 🇱🇰💓🇱🇰💓🇱🇰💓🇱🇰💓🇱🇰💓🇱🇰💓🇱🇰

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for the lovely comment and for watching our video 😊 We wish we can visit Sri Lanka one day and experience the richness of culture of Sri Lanka ❤️

[@prashanigperera2513]

@@TwoHungryDiners Definitely. You will not be disappointed by the generosity, hospitality, and food my people will offer you. You'll find that Sri Lankans are very hospitable and take pride in inviting people to their homes also. Welcome!

[@aaxbii]

dont forget bout tamils not indian tamils

[@prashanigperera2513]

Read properly. Have mentioned as Sri Lankan and Indian Tamils. And why you wanna drah the racism bro..JUst enjoy the food

[@LifetimeTravelmates]

coconut sambol! yum!! we love stringhoppers! and coconut roti !! coconut is love 🥥😍🥥😍🥥

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Haha yes coconut is love ❤️🥥

[@dreaminnasmr5782]

Thank you for trying Sri Lankan food and making such a detail description, great job!!! New sub here🥰

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks for watching and subscribing! ❤️

[@SantosChronicles]

It is so great to see you out and about!! Good to see you guys are no longer on lockdown. Sri Lankan food looks so good. Watching your videos early Sunday morning always makes me so hungry. I would be so lost on how to eat this. Good thing we have your videos to show us. That deep fried chicken is totally something I would really like!!! Holy cow the portion is huge!!! We have spent a lot of time eating at random parks during this weird time.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Haha hope you had some delicious food after watching thia video 😃 We were lost a bit on how to eat the food especially the stringhoppers, glad the owner came to explain to us. Looks like eating at random park is still a trend for take out food, especially we’re approaching summer now 😄

[@KimchiAndBeansVideos]

We've never tried Sri Lankan food. I don't know that is available here in Chicago. The coconut gravy and sambal sound amazing, loving all the colors on these dishes. The deviled chicken looks intense. Glad to know it's not as spicy. 🥵

[@tetill8207]

yep.no known SL restuarant in Chi town.. but there are eazy SL recipes on youtube you can try your own.😊

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Hope you can find a good Sri Lankan restaurant one day in Chicago. We really love it!! Definitely one of the underrated cuisines in the world 😍

[@miyurukularathne970]

Both are very welcome to srilanka ... come,travel nd see how amazing ❤️

[@Mariamcdonald328]

Sri Lankan food is really nice. I have tried out some Sri Lankan recipes from Ulin's food channel. Check it out !🙂

[@nishanthakumara9838]

Come srilanka i

[@PuriandSue]

That lamprais plate is loaded with so much goodies! Looks delish!!

[@TwoHungryDiners]

You guys would love that lamprais! Packed with so much flavours 😍

[@RudyVisuals]

I don't know much about Sri Lankan food so this was a very interesting video to watch! I really want to try some of these dishes now. The string hoppers and the devilled chicken look delicious 😋

[@TwoHungryDiners]

You will like the devilled chicken, we think! Hope you can find good Sri Lanka food in the UK 🙂

[@ImLucyguesswhereiamfrom]

Loved this ❤️

[@just.hawaii_noiiy]

Awesome vid guys Love from sri Lanka🇱🇰 💗

[@PogiboyProductions]

Whoa that's a lot of food! I'm glad you got to try some good Sri Lankan food! I want to try the devilled chicken, looks like something I would love! Good portion for that koti rotti! Ooh hoppers, looks interesting! This will definitely fill my palette with all kinds of flavor hehe.. good episode guys!

[@TwoHungryDiners]

You gotta try Sri Lankan food if you can find it! It’s still under rated imho compared to other asian cuisine but the taste is unbelievable! Yes the devilled chicken is the bomb, so addictive! 🤤

[@LifetimeTravelmates]

oh what a coincidence! yesterday, we had some Srilankan dish ! it was so gooood! let's see if there any food we had! 😄

[@TwoHungryDiners]

That’s nice! ☺️ what did you have?

[@shashawol]

I love the sweet Hoppers 😍and wow that Kottu Roti sounds delicious! Because of the way the roti is broken up, it looks so similar to nasi/mee goreng :O

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Haha yup the kottu roti reminds us of the nasi or mee goreng, maybe the closest one is the flat rice one like char kway teow 😄 I agree, I think we enjoy more of the sweet hoppers than the savoury ones!

[@shashawol]

@@TwoHungryDiners Oh yeah that would make sense because of the cut roti shapes! 😄 Yum!

[@dnnbuddy]

You should also try "Lunu Miris" with hoppers. There are hundreds of curry combinations available for String Hoppers. Also, String Hopper Koththu, Bread Koththu, Dolphin Koththu, Cheese Koththu 😄 are some popular variants. And all of them are so delicious 🔥🍴👌. Thank you for trying Sri Lankan Food. 😍😍

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Hope we can try you suggestions next time we have Sri Lankan food. Thanks so much for watching 🥰

[@mr.3minutes]

I love Sri Lankan amazing food ❤. Thank you for this video! 👍👍

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Our pleasure!

[@Meadow881]

I’m new to this channel and I absolutely love it

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much and welcome to our channel 😊

[@1tan_freed0m]

Thanks for trying the food. 😀 For those who haven't you should try it. Love from Sri Lanka 🔥❤️🇱🇰

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thank you for watching this video too. We need to try more dishes in the future 😊

[@PuriandSue]

Wow you guys tried so many dishes! Must be hard to choose haha! The stringhoppers is definitely very interesting, with so many things to go along. Good to have someone to explain how to eat it, I'd probably do it wrongly haha!

[@TwoHungryDiners]

We had to stick to 8 dishes only in this video even though we wanted to try everything 😅, otherwise we would blow out the budget 😆 You’re right, the stringhoppers is good to pair with any dish, especially curry that we didn’t get 🥲 Next time we should order some Sri Lankan curries!

[@nishanthakumara9838]

Come srilanka i am srilanka boy

[@sunithajayathilaka482]

Thank u for trying Sri lankan foods ❤️🇱🇰 love from Sri lankaa

[@ChandySaoStreeteats]

stringhoppers look very unique. im glad someone came out and told you how to eat it. I would of messed that up 😅😅

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Definitely a unique Sri Lankan dish to try 😃

[@LoraFernando500]

I really fell in love with those food and your expressions ❤

[@udanigunathilaka6482]

I'm sri lankan.i was happy seeing when you was eating sri lankan foods.

[@tharushiprabodya8348]

Thank you for trying srilankan food 🇱🇰 love from a srilankan ❤

[@thisarumenake7385]

Thank you both of you bringing Sri Lankan food out to world. There are some unique Sri Lankan foods you can try of. They are mostly mains and curries not fast foods. We welcome you to Sri Lanka and try ❤

[@ChandySaoStreeteats]

Wow the lamprais looked massive. I would struggle to finish that!!

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Haha at least we eat 2 times from a plate of that lamprais for the both of us. So affordable!

[@deeveer1539]

Thank you for trying the sri lankan food ❤

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Our pleasure!

[@lovelymomentsinlife6708]

Thnk you for trying srilankan food. Happiest be a Sri lankan.🥰👍🤝

[@TwoHungryDiners]

You have awesome food 👍🏻 thanks for watching! ❤️

[@sumedhaindika9277]

Thank you for promoting srilankan food.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Our pleasure!

[@nathashasadavi2118]

Thank you guys.. I'm from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰💖

[@digitalkiduniya6046]

Wow nice shareing my dear friend stay connected

[@KitchenTasteAsia]

It's nice to see you are enjoying Sri Lankan foods. There are so many flavorful and tasty Sri Lankan foods you should try and I'm sure you will be amaze by them...🇱🇰 😇🔥👌

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much! Yup hope one day we can visit Sri Lanka :D

[@PeterandYen]

Really like all the different kinds of Rotti in the world and that coconut rotti looks so different. The texture and shape especially looks interesting. Mmmmm that devilled chicken. We only tried Kottu roti recently too, such a yummy dish and yet another variation of Rotti hahahaha. Rotti #1

[@TwoHungryDiners]

That’s good to hear you enjoy your kottu roti. The coconut rotti is different that what we originally imagined, but we love it! Haha yes rotti is love ❤️

[@KimchiAndBeansVideos]

Never seen roti like this. That's a ton of food. That chicken dish has our name on it too. Those hoppers look so fun! We'll eat anything made with coconut milk. :-)

[@TwoHungryDiners]

The coconut rotti is such a unique take on rotti. We’re used to eating Indian roti and this one is definitely different but so tasty! Reminds us of arepa haha 😆

[@djzedix]

Respect yooh❤

[@TocTocTrax]

I really enjoyed watching your upload! Keep up the excellent work! I'm looking forward to another awesome video! Take care and stay in touch! 🦋🙏🦋🙏🦋

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for watching! 😊

[@PuriandSue]

I always love all your slowmo eating b-rolls! 🔥🍴👌

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks guys 😋

[@nushiskitchen]

Cheers!

[@hacktivis.6104]

Sri Lankan foot yummy... Yummy...!! Happy

[@nethuallpositive]

Sri lanka`s food.. 😋 Very interesting...😍

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Absolutely delicious 🤤

[@myworld2227]

Love from Sri Lanka❤

[@MapPinTravel]

Nice to see you guys in Srilankan restaurant in Melbourne. yes you are correct 13.55 . normally we are eating Hoppers for dinner , breakfast or with evening Tea. 💓💓

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks for confirming and watching this video. We love hoppers❤

[@sithuu5160]

Love from srilanka ❤❤❤❤❤🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰

[@danushkanadun1515]

Love from Sri Lanka

[@limasha1580]

thankyou for trying sri lanka food

[@luhith123456]

Love love the Sri Lankan food .. you gotta try the Devil chicken & Kiri Hodi togather . Or Fish curry and Dhal curry .

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Ahh Devilled chicken and Kiri Hodi together sounds really yum!! Would love to try fish curry and dhal curry next time ☺

[@hperera9029]

There are different variants of hoppers as well! We have honey hoppers and milk hoppers which are also great sweet hoppers and tastes super yum too! And the plain hoppers are heavenly with seeni sambol (caramalized onions). And the string hoppers are usually really good with some spicy curries too with pol sambol and seeni sambol. You guys should also try the Sri Lankan biscuit pudding for dessert as that’s really good too.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge! We will try more type of hoppers next time and also the biscuit pudding. 😀

[@Shan19XX]

Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰✌🏻😇

[@RizaRomaLiyanage]

Thanks for trying Our Food…Visit also one time SriLanka

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for watching this video 🥰

[@NishiQueen]

Love you.from sri lanka❤

[@shalithasi4555]

Amazing

[@alokadewmini3999]

Yuumy yuumy sri lankan foods 😊😋🇱🇰

[@TwoHungryDiners]

So yummy!

[@lostgirl2798]

For string hoppers there is lots of currys go with it. Specially dal curry. And the lunu miris goes best with Hoppers more than coconut samble....

[@happywo526]

Thanks for this reaction love from sri lanka

[@TwoHungryDiners]

No problem 😊

[@DoNotDial09]

We call the onion thing u got with coconut roti is "lunu miris" and u have to kind of mix the string hoppers the gravy and the pol sambol together with your hand. And jagery is made of honey take from a tree called "kithul" I dunno about their in australia though. And 12:26 It's a "kunisso sambol" which is made of coconut and a small shrimp called "kunisso". And the other one is brinjal moju. One of most common dishes which we all crave for😍

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for the information you shared! 😊

[@dancewithmaskgirl4608]

Beautiful ❤

[@dgb..4708]

You can try the Roti with "lunumiris"...it's so yummy

[@ssboooy4153]

Best way to eat string hoppers is lay them on a plate, and assemble your curries and sambals around. Mix them together

[@CeylonKangaroo]

Nice video ♥️🇱🇰

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks 😊

[@dineshrodrigo5452]

Loves from Sri Lanka

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much!! ❤

[@chthushara]

If you can, try Sri Lankan crab curry and pol sambol with roast paan. That's amazing!😝

[@varunagoonasekera7329]

All Sri Lankan dishes can be eaten any time of the day. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Enjoy your meals! I am Sri Lankan.

[@a.w1713]

Srilanka 🇱🇰 ❤️

[@dilshanjeju7414]

Elama

[@lakshihimayanthi8610]

❤❤

[@doitsavemoney]

Huge amount of kutto roti and the pol rotti seems good! I am not fond of Sri Lanka dish but they are slightly same as Indian cuisine,I guess.! Enjoy ur meal watching from kuwait Janice 💖💜

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for watching! Sri Lankan food has some influence S from India, but not quite the same. It has also influence from Dutch and Indonesia. ☺️

[@georgedesilva3334]

😋

[@arjunaasela6279]

Welcome srilanka ❤

[@user-od5si3yd3u]

Nice video from Sri Lanka

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for watching 😄

[@rusirushanaka8343]

😍💪🇱🇰

[@RudyVisuals]

I'm bet the Wattalappan is delicious but I'm not too sure about the wine glass presentation 😅 it looked so much better once you laid it out on the plate

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Hahaha that's what exactly we thought. The wine glass presentation seems to be a bit weird 😬

[@ashanmendis8091]

Juggary is Syrup of the kithul tree and not from sugar cane if done right

[@ariesa9751]

For the pol rotti if it's hot, it's delicious with butter. But for SriLankan food if you see anything free standing mix it with curry and it'll be much tastier.

[@Princesschristina4830.]

Guys lamprais is cooking with coconut milk but for biriyani we don’t use coconut milk.taste is a little bit similar but the style of cooking is different.🥰🥰I really love your programme.❤️

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much for sharing the info! ☺️

[@lasath90]

Spicy flames are really good for quality by even Sri Lankan standards. Their Lamprais was the best I had in a very long time, usually restaurants don’t put that much effort into their lamprais.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Ah that’s good to know that we picked a good quality restaurant to share with our viewers. Agree!! That lamprais is divine! 😍😍

[@nidushannilochana8922]

Wow, amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂

[@foodwithatha5416]

Nice 👍👍👍👍

[@dilakshanathanaplana3906]

Yeah string hopper are in the evening dinner at 6pm oh 7pm night

[@MadurangaSirisena]

To make 3 hoppers they have to fire up 3 cookers, that’s why it’s only available at night where they get more orders.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Ah good to know! Thanks for watching 😊

[@eshikaudayanawanigasekara]

# visitsrilanka ❤ from 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka...

[@kalumsampath2031]

❤️❤️❤️

[@gayanwiharagoda]

hoppers in normally evening diet. You got that right 😊

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks for confirming 😃

[@ashasamodi8466]

proud to be a srilankan

[@btbt3019]

Proud to say iam srilankan ❤️❤️ Many of spices and food have to try But its coast was omg develd chicken was 20 $ but in srilanka you can buy that minimam 3$ i think you are can visit srilanka and tasting our spices 😍😍😍

[@TwoHungryDiners]

The food here is expensive here in Australia 😆 $3 for deviled chicken in Sri Lanka sounds so amazing! Love Sri Lankan food! 😍

[@Evelynn.x]

love u guys

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks so much!! ❤

[@ShashakaArchana]

We eat Hoppers and Coconut rotti in our tea time with some cup of tea. I live in the UK now and I miss thease very much😢

[@josephlownang6992]

good video

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thank you!! 😊

[@sandunifernando8552]

❤️🇱🇰

[@dilshanchamika]

Love

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks!

[@gullwingstorm857]

Next time please try Ceylon Girl's Cafe in Frankston. She makes the most divine pan rolls.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Thanks for the suggestion!! We need to try the pan rolls next 😍

[@NguyenningAtLife]

Never knew what Sri Lankan food looked like! It kinda looks like Indonesian food. Lol. Those hoppers especially!

[@ej4458]

Probably because it is, there are java people in Sri Lanka that settled down with javaka bhanu's invasion force.

[@TwoHungryDiners]

You’re right, it has got an influence from Indonesia. Hope you can try it too guys! ☺️

[@happyfamilyindubai2493]

Yes my wife is Sri Lanka so I like ❤❤❤❤Sri Lanka food ❤❤❤❤

[@shehansansoni]

🇱🇰❤️