Top 15 MUST TRY street food in Colombo Sri Lanka (4K)

Get the local scoop on the best street food you must try when in Colombo Sri Lanka plus few hidden gems in the city
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Street side Herbal Porridge
03:00 Boiled Manioc by the beach
04:01 Exploring Pettah Market
05:18 Trying spicy Achcharu
06:23 The King Coconut
07:59 Muslim treats at Bombay sweets
11:59 The infamous Gram store
13:25 Experiencing the Galle Face Hotel
16:51 High Tea at the Galle Face hotel
18:51 Street food at Galle Face Green
23:48 Checking out a night market in Colombo Sri Lanka
26:59 Checking out Aluthkade with Josh Cahill
36:08 Winding down at the King of the Mambo

[@Sheneller]

We missed out on showing you the KING of Sri Lankan Streetfood 😢 but fear not it will be showcased in all of its glory in our nightlife video and it truly has earned its spot in the average night out routine 😄😄 Can you guess what this streetfood is?😮

[@Cinema_Talkz]

Kottu😢

[@prabhacolambage4034]

Its kottu roti😊

[@DammikaSenarath-dn5wp]

​@@Cinema_Talkzo hi hi both I IvIvfsf

[@kaushalyahansana5844]

kottuu

[@amalrajpaleri]

Rotiii

[@JoshCahill]

Thanks for having me - always a great time with you two! Next time we gotta try some German food though haha!

[@Sheneller]

Sounds like a plan!

[@SightsofCy]

Aaaahh. LOVE IT! Makes me wannnnna gooo back to Colombo 🎉😍🙌🏼🥳

[@josshibu1]

Good to see you Josh 😊

[@WhiteRussianbear1969]

@@Shenellerola mami, Donde está esto? República Dominicana?

[@kittywong1107]

the German restaurant in Columbo? (sorry I never actually knew what the name was, when you're 12 in Columbo - it's just the "german" restaurant, or the "japanese" restaurant, or the "restaurant in the ramada"! I was there in the 80's and my very last time much have been 1991! I've heard from friends it's still there!

[@KavinduPerera]

So nice to see international level content from a Sri Lankan 🇱🇰❤

[@happydeepm]

Stayed in Colombo for 3 years and loved the cuisine. Right from the string hoppers & hoppers at Upali's, to the all sort of curries (incl jack fruits), the Pol rotis or the Paan (Bread) items. The baked products are also damn good. With a cosmopolitan environment in Colombo, the pizzas & pastas (Roccos), South Indian cuisine at Shanmugas, the momos & baos at Momos by Ruvi's, lebanese at Hummus Bar (now closed) & mexican (must try out the cake - tres leches) by Alma Flores (residing in colombo) are food memories that I will carry to my grave. It's a beautiful place with beautiful people and a gastronomical adventure park!

[@LongblackExtrashot]

Oh I loved this! I’ve been to Colombo a couple of times and I loved it! I stayed in a different hotel, one on marine parade so great to know about galle face hotel. The people in Sri Lanka were kind and generous to me and I loooved the food, though was quite spicey for me😚

[@sathishponathponath5499]

I have visited srilanka six years ago,I love srilanka very much, nice people and good environment ❤❤🎉

[@kalindufernando6628]

The background sounds and fast pace transitions from one snack to another in the beginning of the video, perfectly captures the chaos of colombo. felt like we are back home, rushing to work while trying to grab some breakfast. A mouthwatering perfection of a video.

[@Sheneller]

Best feedback! So glad you like it!

[@dewduniparindya1943]

I have never learned so much English from any video in the world❤

[@user-mv8hv7yy3s]

Love your work, and thank you for showcasing our amazing little island to the world ❤

[@bkilpatrick5828]

Love this vlog showcasing all of our amazing streetfood options! Also, Sri Lankan breakfasts are the best!

[@lithotechnairobi3591]

lovely , its enjoyable to watch your perspective and authentic content.

[@RK-oq3bx]

I'm quite amazed to see your first episode of Colombo's Street Food reviewing videos and I wish you a great success in covering from Kola Kantha to Aluthkade foods, and hereafter covering nooks and cooks of every street food in Colombo. I'm a regular watcher of Josh's aviation reviews and happy to see him with you guys.😊. Thank you for the untiring efforts to bring the food culture of Colombo city life in the limelight. 🎉

[@mannyshiff]

Your videos are amazing. My family and I used to live in Colombo and I’ve always wanted to visit. I hope I can finally do that after 24 years, and this is giving me so much inspiration!

[@_bohemian2778]

It was a great pleasure to see how you bring our own stuff to the world. Appreciate your work and time

[@travelwithsanjeewa7978]

Such a fun and cool video from you guys after a while. This is definitely a thing to do when I visit Sri lanka next time.

[@afayimo]

Dear Sheneller, Greeting from Germany... We love you both. ❤❤❤, ❤❤We enjoy your videos very much...❤❤

[@iyernarayananh]

Excellent video. Very nicely and properly done - with good explanations and narrative.

[@RahulSankrithya]

Oh how I wish this video had come earlier, i just came back from Sri Lanka and having tasted only a few of what's listed here 😅 ..for sure I'm going everywhere you have mentioned thank you

[@shehanwijekumara]

Great , informative content , awesome ❤

[@chulagalappaththi]

Amazing ! Very good tourist promotion and food review great video and nice presentation

[@srini9653]

Thank you Sheneller. Most of the items you showed have a "similar version" in India. Great channel, I really enjoy all your work. Keep going!

[@debasishbanerjee9294]

You go lady! Love your content. Hope to visit the Pearl Island one day!!

[@quiz-blasters227]

Great video. Very informative. Thanks. The street food looks good.

[@sandalithara4554]

Amaizing content shen ! 😍👍

[@Christian_Paul_nz]

Two varieties of the orangިish coconut also grow in the Maldives. The variety that you have shown is known there as "rathuruku kurumba", literally, "red-palm drinking-coconut". The other variety has a bluish tinge, and is called "dhanburuku kurumba", meaning "purple-palm drinking-coconut".

[@pascalpoussin1209]

Bravo, I'm so impressed by this culinary tour in fabulous SL.

[@sampy26]

Content My Colombo deserves ❤️😊 love it!

[@PeachyMushroom]

You are a vegetarian - nice! I am also, from India, so will follow your eats guide through Sri Lanka, where I've never visited, but must! Truly seems like an island paradise!

[@paxsona3537]

I just found out that I'm part Sri Lankan and am looking to learn more. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@navi8467]

You guys doing amazing job. Keep it up. Good luck.❤

[@TuneinR]

Beautiful Sri lankan lady i must say.

[@dhananjayaadhikari8836]

Nice video keep up the good work your doing always ❤

[@skmplanet9591]

Great to find many unique items of Sri Lanka.

[@loveserendib04]

Love your channel. Love Sri Lanka. Colombo is one of my favourite cities. The people are amazing

[@awesome900]

Please do a similar street food vlog of Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and Tissamaharama.

[@saugattachatterrjee4147]

Excellent video. Very informative.

[@clsamarasinghe2029]

Nice to see Josh Cahill..in your clip..have been following his videos for some time..

[@user-lp8kx9rr2x]

Have visited SL few times but didn't know all what you have shown. Great presentation. Thank you.

[@FOXYSKITCHEN]

This is an amazing video 🔥

[@Sheneller]

Thanks foxy!!!😘😘

[@SwarnaShanmugalingam]

Thankyou. Love it.

[@PradeepRaajkumar1981]

I am an AUSSIE TAMIL SOUTH INDIAN.. I follow JOsh Travel videos.. Lived iN Melbourne met lots of Singhalese and Srilankan Tamils Lovely to follow you.. Pollachi is a town in Coimbatore DISTRICT.. Farming- Coconuts and coconut.. Orange version Tender coconuts we called it MANDYA breed.. We got YELLOW version also Cheers from #pollachi #coimbatore

[@kaushalyahansana5844]

Glad I found this channel

[@jeethwalgampaya7590]

This is the first time I watched your video and I enjoyed every moment of it. You explain everything really well with details. When I visit Sri Lanka next time , I will definitely check out these places. Thank you for an amazing video. You speak so well. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Gordi_B]

Good to see the entrepreneurial spirit of the Kailasa founder 👏 Young people who stay back to make a go of it must be applauded.

[@Sheneller]

Absolutely agree with you!

[@Gordi_B]

@@Sheneller Is Josh an airline analyst? I’ve seen a couple of his shorts. It’s funny how two airline chaps, Peter Hill and he, have made SL their home. If you throw in Arthur C Clarke, that’s three guys who love the skies 😁

[@ankitrai1901]

Kailasa is a sexual offender escaped from India to South America.

[@motherswhoempowerothermoth3272]

Great video.

[@SuperErosh]

you are doing a great job. making quality videos promoting Sri lankan industries. super quality language skills are great. presentation second to none

[@isuruwickramasuriya5087]

This is the best Sri Lankan KZbin documentary channel no doubts.

[@thassianrobertson7948]

Nice description of Street food in Colombo. Recently we visited Srilanka and enjoyed its food and nature.

[@dazuotv]

The street food in Colombo, Sri Lanka is great, it’s the best👍

[@chanukamaheshani2416]

Daamn good video .. missing SL n street food so much ❤

[@MarySavage-pq1zp]

Greetings from the Maldives. Thank you so much for this ray of sunshine you have brought to me. This video makes me homesick (!!!? I have no idea how many times I have been to Colombo. I do speak a bit of Sinhala....etc. Bless Sri Lanka!). Keep up the good work and thank you again. I hope to visit my Colombo again next month, btw.

[@anthonypereira5723]

Hi since we are planning our trip in the next few days looking at what we can learn from someone like yourself,your presentations have been excellent and very informative and this has only made our travel so much more exciting. Thank you for doing what you do and maybe if we have an opportunity to meet you when there would be a highlight of our tour.

[@sanjaya-sunnykarunaratne7843]

Just started watching your videos. Highly informative content and thanks heaps for bringing Sri Lanka closer for people like us who live overseas. My favourite is Kasawa with Chili chutney and pork. Keep up the good work Sheneller. 👍👍

[@sankeshankar]

Amazing Tour !

[@4jup4ter4]

@6:23 Thank you. In my Neighborhood in the Bahamas, there's a house that has several coconut trees that produce yellow coconuts just like this. The ones in our yard is the typical green coconut.

[@bandudharmaratne6432]

First time I watched a presentation of you. Well done. Keep it up.

[@tonikins99771]

Miss Sri Lanka. Hope to be back soon. Great video!

[@ritabhimani1123]

I have come to your site for the first time and am truly delighted at your explorations of every aspect of Sri Lanka. While I have visited your beautiful country three times in the past--one of them for doing interviews for a cricket book which my husband was writing and being hosted on a couple of evenings by Killi Rajamahendran, I am excited to go back to taste a new set of the amazing foods that you have presented, get to the Galle Lit Fest next year with my books, and more......Would like to meet you then

[@force1delta]

Fantastic presentation by this charming young presenter ...very well done indeed

[@antoinettestern9813]

Your enthusiasm has inspired me to investigate Sri Lanka...

[@PremiumCakes]

1.40. Type of leaves must be "Welpenella", not Welipenna. Nice work... Waiting for more ❤

[@sasisview]

Your video's all awesome ❤❤❤❤

[@clsamarasinghe2029]

Jumbu you ate is actually called Pini Jambu. It's bigger than the normal Red Jambu.. Enjoyed this video very much..❤

[@dunilamendis279]

Your videos are amazing.Thanks for sharing videos and trying to boost our tourism.Threse videos are amaze the foreigners to visit our beautiful paradise.You should get a minister post to improve our tourism.

[@dinushiaisha1308]

Really admire your effort trying to show to SL unics to the world. All the very best!!!

[@Farida-sg2en]

I'm a great fan of yours and watch all your vlogs cause you always make the vlogs very interesting with explanations clear ...😊

[@Farida-sg2en]

Also cause now my daughter is in SL on vacation I shared your interesting vlog Colombo Street Food with my daughter cause it will be a great help to her 😊 Thanks

[@Sheneller]

@Farida-sg2en how lovely! I do hope it helps her. Thank you so much for watching and sharing ♥️♥️ glad you liked it🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@motherswhoempowerothermoth3272]

Beautiful Beach view

[@danjacob9539]

Brilliant vedio. I have made a list from your vedios. Looking forward to trying all of them out next week. Specially the 1kg fish and kada near the railway track for breakfast. Thanks Shenel. X

[@renukaramanathan1616]

👍enjoyed the video to the fullest. Want to share with friends in other countries 🤩

[@jeevashehan4415]

Super review dear sister IAM shehan from batticaloa

[@muralidharagk3801]

beautifull video good explanation we like this thanks for the video madam and sir

[@mohamedshafqat2380]

Your enchanting smile surpasses all expectations. While exploring street food can be a delightful experience, I recommend approaching it with caution, especially when it comes to children, considering hygiene concerns. Wishing you the best of luck, and eagerly anticipating the glowing reviews of Sri Lanka. Sending warm regards from Angola!

[@mudithabandara8575]

Good one keep going !!

[@FreedomBreeze24]

you're an amazing presenter! keep going x

[@carryontravel]

Thanks to your recommendation we went to Aluthkade last night to enjoy our last night in Sri Lanka- it did NOT disappoint!!! Thanks so much for making that recommendation. We see Colombo under a new light now, and had an incredible memorable night ❤

[@patpathinayake3586]

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely video showing Ceylonese street foods. You all are very lucky to enjoy these lovely food. When we were children we were not aloud to consume these because my lovely late parents were guarding us. As a child I was adventurous, put it mildly!🤣🤣 Ceylon has changed quite a lot since my halcyon college days. Please post more videos as they are really valuable to all foreign visitors. Not sure which college you attended, but I like your accent 🌹🌹🌹 Take great care XOX Lots love from UK

[@siva.n4948]

Amazing video

[@cuebal]

Nice. When I visited I tried the shrimp vadai it was interesting

[@hasanmahbubneon587]

Very similar to us. tnx for a nice video (from Dhaka)🥰🥰🥰

[@anomakulatunga9677]

Great it is very interesting

[@amalrajpaleri]

Wow Verity of food collections, Street food always good

[@starrydust1824]

Excellent presentation

[@singaivendan369]

W.O.W...Amazing Country and Amazing People...What a Language and what a great fluency...Amazing My...D.E.A.R!!!

[@ashikihsan1946]

Hello Sheneller, So nice to meet you in Colombo. I wish you to have lovely seafoods in Colombo. I'm living in Negombo. I love your videos Sheneller

[@zaibulislam]

I just watched your video and it's amazing. I loved it ❤❤❤ it gave me lot of knowledge about Colombo street foods... However what about if you add or mention food prices too ? I may be visiting Colombo in next coming months, insha'Allah... Thank you so much for such an informative video 👍

[@emiljayatileke416]

I regret missing out on Aluth Kade last time I was in Colombo, will definitely not miss it next time!

[@sameerathennakoon4584]

Wow .. nice clips

[@user-eg9kd6uy6z]

Very Good Review i coming sri lanka very soon try all food

[@AathifAhamed456]

Can u continue food vlogs 😢? 🔥❤️stunning as always ❤🇱🇰

[@user-ke5bg5yi1c]

Thanks for the post. I was trying to use your promo code to book at the hotel, but I got better rate using different sites . I thing they should offer better rates to you.

[@marimuthuelakkuvan1011]

Best place to visit

[@FilipinaSpeaks]

Looks healthy drink that. I should try when I get to see one here in Colombo.

[@mahenchandrasiri6050]

Nice job 👌❤️

[@nilwatura4436]

Brilliant presentation.

[@mjj2149]

Good video Sheneller 😃👏.Good food 😋.Un saludo desde Madrid España 👋👋😃

[@mithun_perera]

Informative

[@thilinadilshan9800]

I watched & came to the comment section So I thought put a comment .That is great video .This video will help for foriegnours because when They come to here it will be a help.That is amazing .❤😊

[@dhananjoydas9966]

wonderful. keep it up.

[@elishagolla7764]

Excellent Speach 👌💐💐

[@BornKafir]

Watching this while eating delicious Sri Lankan food in Canada and hoping to visit Colombo some day