KANDY Flavour Extravaganza SRI LANKA

[@FrugalTravellers]

Sri Lanka is a brilliant travel destination for so many reasons... one of my favourite being the delicious food! 😋 We spent an awesome 7 weeks travelling in Sri Lanka & here is our playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF More Sri Lanka videos to come so remember to SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT & SHARE with yourfriends!! 👍🇱🇰🤗❤️

[@Srimaster0011]

I m waiting❤

[@julieeggleton9743]

I love your appreciation of food. Wish I could share a meal with you one day.. until then I will rely on your reactions and great descriptions to imagine I am. 💙💙

[@FrugalTravellers]

That's so lovely of you, Julie. Maybe one day, our paths will cross 🤗😁 I definitely travel to eat!

[@steves7013]

Sri Lanka, the gift that keeps giving! Take care and stay safe x 🙏🇬🇧

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello Steve! Sri Lanka certainly is an amazing country. Thank you so much for your completely spot-on comment! 🤗🙏🇱🇰

[@duladabestsam7213]

Such a lovely couple. Stay blessed. Loads of love from Sri Lanka.

[@FrugalTravellers]

Duladabest Sam, that is so very kind of you! Thank you so much for your lovely comment 🙏🤗🇱🇰♥️

[@andrewsundaram3996]

Happy to see you both in Kandy where my wife is from. Greetings from Coventry UK. Wonderful video!

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello Andrew, and thank you so much for your lovely comment! How cool that you're writing from Coventry, Lee's hometown! I'm not sure if you've seen our 2 other Kandy videos? Here's the link to our Sri Lanka playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF&si=NIgXqmZTOy_vcken

[@FrugalMrB]

What a great range of street food - and so cheap - I'd have to sample everything!

[@FrugalTravellers]

Sri Lanka is an amazing budget destination, Andrew! We'd definitely recommend it, and will go back someday! 🤗🇱🇰❤️

[@rajeewa1618]

Wonderful lovely couple.. they enjoy sri lankan Foods and culture

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much, Rajeewa! We love Sri Lanka food and culture! 🙏🤗🇱🇰❤️ Have you seen many of our other Sri Lanka videos? kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF&si=yIdPkTBxIpJMoe3X

[@susangranger3089]

Great Video, as always, an abundance of amazing healthy and reasonable priced food, how good is that. 💯😊 xx

[@FrugalTravellers]

We completely agree, Susan! Such delicious, healthy food at such reasonable prices... yet another reason as to why we loved Sri Lanka 🤗🇱🇰♥️

[@vijayafernando1]

Sorry to hear about your illness. Kandy or Colombo would be two of the best places in the world for treatment.

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much for your kindness, Vijaya - it is so greatly appreciated ♥️🤗🙏 I'm not sure if you've seen any of the videos in my Journey To Wellness series, starting from when I received the initial diagnosis in Kandy on the 11th July, and showing further visits to the hospital ♥️ kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrlOvGhh0vS_FBVmplwc-hvD&si=HPoBD7WyZWY5aj2M

[@paranoidman2002]

16:00 best way to eat woodapple is to scoop the middle. And mix it with finely crushed jaggery, and leave it in the fridge for about 3 hours. And then eat it.

[@FrugalTravellers]

That sounds delicious, Machang! We'll look forward to trying it the next time we're in Sri Lanka 🤗 🇱🇰🙏

[@AloysiusHettiarachchi]

Hope you are recovery from problem. There is a marvelous therapy which non invasive and very cheap to try. It's called 'Budwig Protocol'. Basically what it does is to make an emulsion which probly the thing happens in the gut. It helped me ten years ago.

[@Thilina.channel]

Enjoy srilanka 🌍 Take care and stay safe❤❤

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you! We had such an amazing time in Sri Lanka 🤗🇱🇰♥️ We made quite a few videos of our 7-weeks travelling around... and here's the playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF&si=E40x07fVYL4EgtZj

[@RochelNilendra]

Amazing. My home town is Kandy and watching this all the way from Auckland NZ

[@FrugalTravellers]

That's so lovely, Rochel. My home town is north of Auckland 😀🤗

[@RochelNilendra]

@@FrugalTravellers Amazing. I am from Te Atatu South :)

[@akilaudara2167]

Wishing you both happy, healthy wealthy future dear Lee and Mandy. ♥️✨🙏

[@FrugalTravellers]

That is so lovely of you, Akila 🤗😍 Thank you so much for your kind words, and we wish the same for you 😊♥️

[@FurbyPurrson]

veralu or sri lankan olive tasted smokey because when we make achcharu out of veralus first we boil them inside hot water with turmeric powder. if you taste veralu as it is raw it tastes very sweet sometimes sour if they are not ripe. love your guys energy cheers.

[@FrugalTravellers]

That's so interesting, Jimme, thank you so much for sharing this great information 🙏🤗 We had a wonderful 7 weeks travelling around beautiful Sri Lanka & this is the playlist of all our videos: Sri Lanka Travel 🇱🇰: kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrm1426S5ltprrISCZunP-BF

[@carter12319]

Im amazed how you guys never tried the same food twice..!! Very adventurous 🎉

[@FrugalTravellers]

@@carter12319 The food in Sri Lanka is amazing... so fresh and healthy and delicious 😋🇱🇰♥️

[@nisarpasha3185]

Hi Lee and Mandy lovely to see you enjoy every meal you'll eat I prefer to eat in small places usually a parotta with some chicken curry but drink only in 5 star's my favourite place to hangout in the afternoon and evening ur videos are so informative to the new traveller's u will be blessed always ❤🙏

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello Nisar, and thank you so much for another wonderful comment. I hope you realise how much we appreciate them, as it really does help our channel grow when our regular viewers watch and interact, and it would be so wonderful if our videoes could reach even more people 🤗😍🙏 That's so cool about the drinking in 5-star places! Lee and I are budget all the way so haven't had that experience yet 😁😊

[@nisarpasha3185]

I'll recommend galle face hotel in Colombo pretty chilled colonial hotel more than a hundred years old give it a try 😉🙏

[@kalegana]

this was lovely, wish you speedy recovery and good health.

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much, Sameera, that is so kind of you. I actually shared my experiences in my Journey to Wellness series, to hopefully help others going through that experience. I appreciate your kindness xx🙏🤗

[@michellel3348]

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[@FrugalTravellers]

❤️🇱🇰❤️

[@DineshaRanasinghe-h4t]

Both of you enjoy sri lankan food Watering my mounth 😂😂 i missed long time my country food

[@FrugalTravellers]

Sri Lankan food is so healthy and delicious 😋 I really miss rice and vegetable curry 🤗😍

[@prashangiranasinghe130]

Happy and Healthy future wishes !!!

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much, Prashangi! Wishing you all the very best as well 🤗🙏🇱🇰❤️

[@juliehawkes1050]

Great video very informative. Hope your doing okxx

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much, Julie! Yes, I'm doing well, and it really means lots that you asked 😊😍 Sending you a big hug xx🤗🤗🤗 ~ Mandy

[@cindybruin4888]

Hi guys, always love the food videos.

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello Cindy! 👋 It's always so lovely to hear from you. I love making the food videos... Lee's more about the travel ones 🤗😊

[@opagodaswirling9383]

Wonderful to see you both enjoying the pleasures of Kandy. I regret to say I lost touch with your splendid videos just after you left Portugal . Mandy -- wishing you all the very best . Lee -- the last time I communicated with you I think we mentioned the books of Paul Theroux . I first visited Kandy in 1982 . Is the Olde Empire Hotel still around ? It was right beside the Sri Krishna Dosai. Best wishes to you both .

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello there. 👋 I'm so glad you are still enjoying our videos. Kandy was a splendid place to spend some time. Yes, the Olde Empire hotel is still there, around the corner from Sri Krishna. Did Thoroux stay there? If he did, I wasn't aware. I would have stuck my head around the corner for a nose if I'd have known. 😊 We'll be doing some rail travel in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh this year so I must go back and re-read him. 👍. Stay tuned for some more fun on the road! 😍

[@Sri-Lankan-Heritage-Trail]

Nice video and lovely couple stay safe.

[@FrugalTravellers]

That is so very kind of you, thank you 🙏 🤗

[@kanishkaherath2850]

Kandy, a gem of an experience in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[@FrugalTravellers]

It's a great city with so much to offer. 🙏🇱🇰😍

[@dilan197530]

your presentation is nice

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much 🙏❤️🇱🇰

[@eleanorolsen7445]

Hi Mandy & Lee: Loving seeing your Sri Lanka adventures. Just wondering if you avoid eating any foods in order to avoid travellers upset stomachs? Do you have any tricks/ remedies to help?

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello Eleanor! It's always so lovely to hear from you... especially with such great travel questions. We have a few basic things we try to follow... 1) We look for busy places filled with locals, as that way the food should be fresh 2) We don't ask for ice - but we do have it in drinks from street stall juice/smoothie shops, as again, they should have a high turnaround of goods 3) We avoid empty tourist restaurants... not just because they tend to be far more expensive, but also because we don't know how old the food is out the back... and a fancy dining area doesn't necessarily mean a clean kitchen 4) I tend to forget to wash my hands before eating, and I don't use hand sanitiser. Lee likes to wash his hands before and after eating If I think of anything else I'll add it below... or we might make a travel vlog about it, and mention your question 🤗😁 Re: treatment for a dodgy stomach... we've tried riding it out, which was super painful/uncomfortable, and we've also been to the local chemist and asked fir a remedy... and that always works. We didn't suffer any bad stomachs in either Sri Lanka or the Philippines. Saying all that, the 2 worst cases of food poisoning I've ever had were in the UK and Australia 🤣🤗 ~ Mandy

[@eleanorolsen7445]

I agree, the worst I have ever had was from a restaurant in Australia. Normally I don’t do ice but we did have juice from breakfast buffets that had ice in it. I felt that could have been the culprit. We tell the tale of our whole group fronting up to the pharmacy all getting the same over the counter anti diarrhoea meds. Just part of the adventure. 🤨

[@Śiśna3633]

I am saddened to hear about your cancer diagnosis. Why are you not treated in New Zealand? I am hoping for the best for you.

[@FrugalTravellers]

That's so lovely of you, thank you. I had the biopsy and scans in Kandy then went back to Australia for treatment. This is the playlist showing my Journey to Wellness 🤗 JOURNEY TO WELLNESS after being diagnosed with breast cancer: kzbin.info/aero/PLCmNbKU5iMrlOvGhh0vS_FBVmplwc-hvD

[@sammurphy4122]

Amla is NOT tamarind. It is called nelli by the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. It is highly considered as a medicinal fruit used for many ailments and just to stay healthy as a prophylactic and also used as an oil for healthy hair. It looks like a green olive and has a bitter/ sweet/ sour taste combined. The botanical name is phyllanthus embllica and in English it is called Indian gooseberry. Tamarind is an entirely different fruit that has a sweet sour taste , no bitter taste. Eaten when ripe and the pulp used to give a sweet dour taste in cooking . Also used as the main ingredient in worcester sauce. Veralu looks like an olivecand has a seed inside as an unpitted olives. Howevervit is sour if eaten raw when notvtipe but it is very soft when it is ripe like a soft pulp that can be removed from your fingers and has a pleasant aroma and tastes sweet.

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much for the correction, Sam, and for the excellent information. I have since tried amla powder and see exactly what you mean the bitter flavour. Yet another reason for us to return to Sri Lanka is to try more of these amazing medicinal fruit!

[@sicilian-american]

im in philippines right now and just ate a steak with rice and butter garlic shrimp..mmmm and only paid $6 including a watermellon shake although that was a good deal cuz i be lovin me some grilled beef & seafood...that meal yous ate looked pretty dam good as well & only a bit more than a lousy old american dollar...WOW WOW WOW...I sound like a broken record but WOW!!! A DOLLLAR UNREAL SERIOUSLY

[@FrugalTravellers]

Wow... your meal in the Philippines sounds amazing! It's far more plant-based in Sri Lanka... and is oh so delicious 😋🇱🇰♥️

[@julieeggleton9743]

Makes me hungry!

[@mayakumara9217]

Enjoy srilanka

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much, Maya. We had such a wonderful time in Sri Lanka 🤗🇱🇰🙏

[@PlanetImo]

I’m staggered by the stag!!

[@FrugalTravellers]

Wasn't he so cool! 🤗❤️🦌

[@PlanetImo]

@@FrugalTravellers he was!

[@FrugalTravellers]

@@PlanetImo Sri Lanka is filled with such amazing sights 🤗🦌

[@Randy19888]

There is no other way than mixing both rice and curry. One of tge reasons we eat from hand is because we want to mix the food well so thae flavours can be enjoyed together Some people let the fires be like that so that the smoke drives the mosquitoes away. Some people prefer the smoke than getting bit by mosquitoes.

[@FrugalTravellers]

Thank you so much for sharing this information, Randika. It's always great to find out the local ways from the locals themselves.

[@TheKingMaker666]

It seems Kandy has managed to grow up in you guys😂❤

[@FrugalTravellers]

@@TheKingMaker666 Definitely 😁 It's so ironic that it's the one place in beautiful Sri Lanka that Lee didn't like... and we ended up staying there on 3 separate occasions during our 7 weeks in Sri Lanka 🤣 I loved the fruit shakes right from the word Go so was happy to go to the hospital there, and Asiri Hospital Kandy was absolutely brilliant 🙏🇱🇰

[@sriyanihettiarachchi997]

520 for that 😮 where is it?

[@FrugalTravellers]

Please let me know what you are referring to 🤗😊

[@Srimaster0011]

Where are you from❤

[@FrugalTravellers]

Hello, and thank you so much for your lovely question! If you've only just discovered our channel, these 2 videos will hopefully tell you all about us 🤗🙏♥️ ~ Mandy Our First Q&A: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoHKi4t-f7J6ibM Frugal Travellers: 30 Years of Travel kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6vFY2uMj6aMb9E

[@Srimaster0011]

@@FrugalTravellers aaah uk and nz friends😊

[@Srimaster0011]

@@FrugalTravellers welcome me as a new srilankan fan boy😁

[@FrugalTravellers]

@@Srimaster0011 That is so lovely! Welcome to the Frugal Travellers family 🤗😊

[@ruwaizabdulsathar7830]

I don't think locals know this places offer great price!

[@FrugalTravellers]

We do love scouting out the best deals... and we found some amazing places in Sri Lanka 🤗🇱🇰

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[@FrugalTravellers]

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