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BATTICALOA, SRI LANKA - After visiting Kandy and Central Sri Lanka, we drove to the East coast of Sri Lanka, and first to Batticaloa, a wonderful city surrounded by lagoons. Ruzaina arranged for us to meet up with the Sri Lanka Special Forces to cook lunch and eat in their mess hall, but it turned out to be more of an adventure than just that!
We arrived to the Special Forces base camp, and they were already cooking the meal for lunch. But also our plan for the day was to buy a fish and cook a big fish, so the Captain called his fisherman friend, and he had a special type of shark (which is commonly eaten in Sri Lanka) and said it was his favorite. So we ended up getting the shark to cook and share with the entire Special Forces unit. We ended up missing the main lunch, but we had lunch in the General's office instead with the delicious mix of local dishes and the addition of the shark curry. It was a privilege to have this opportunity.
Sri Lankan Batticaloa food - In the evening we were invited to a local home in Batticaloa to eat a typical regional Batticaloa Sri Lankan food meal. The meat blew me away with the flavors and ingredients, and it was my first time to eat mountain knotgrass, which was delicious.
Thank you to everyone who generously hosted me in Batticaloa, for the delicious food, and to Ruzaina for arranging everything. Go check out here videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDPfZmaXpxEXNCctdSyrN1A
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Watch more Sri Lankan Food: https://youtu.be/4v9G2ArswUs
Ruzaina: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDPfZmaXpxEXNCctdSyrN1A
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BATTICALOA, SRI LANKA - After visiting Kandy and Central Sri Lanka, we drove to the East coast of Sri Lanka, and first to Batticaloa, a wonderful city surrounded by lagoons. Ruzaina arranged for us to meet up with the Sri Lanka Special Forces to cook lunch and eat in their mess hall, but it turned out to be more of an adventure than just that!
We arrived to the Special Forces base camp, and they were already cooking the meal for lunch. But also our plan for the day was to buy a fish and cook a big fish, so the Captain called his fisherman friend, and he had a special type of shark (which is commonly eaten in Sri Lanka) and said it was his favorite. So we ended up getting the shark to cook and share with the entire Special Forces unit. We ended up missing the main lunch, but we had lunch in the General's office instead with the delicious mix of local dishes and the addition of the shark curry. It was a privilege to have this opportunity.
Sri Lankan Batticaloa food - In the evening we were invited to a local home in Batticaloa to eat a typical regional Batticaloa Sri Lankan food meal. The meat blew me away with the flavors and ingredients, and it was my first time to eat mountain knotgrass, which was delicious.
Thank you to everyone who generously hosted me in Batticaloa, for the delicious food, and to Ruzaina for arranging everything. Go check out here videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDPfZmaXpxEXNCctdSyrN1A
Thank you for watching this Sri Lankan food video! You can watch the entire Sri Lanka food and travel series here: https://youtu.be/4v9G2ArswUs
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U PUT U R MOUTH INTO SERVING BOWLS!!! SPIT INTO OTHER PEOPLES FOOD.
Srilanka s far better than Kerala a south indian state of India 🇮🇳 . Specialy on food it's quality. Fish in kerala they put formalin.
Wish Rhizaina was sitting next to him instead when he was eating at the table, I love her feedback.
Lol in English the "K" is silent in Knotgrass 😅
From what I've read and watched in videos about the army, is that they only use thé best of the best ingredients and prepare thé most divine meals because the army officials need all the beneficial nutrients from the foods because of all the physical work they have to do
Hi mark hope you and your family are all well am making sure every one I know knows about you and what you do in the Bahamas where I live I want to invite you to the Bahamas to eat food cook by my brother and served by me Ricardo the butler god bless you and your family always and keep eating and traveling love what you do
''nice'' shakes his head 🤣😂😭
Mark's videos are as special as the man himself….never boring…special vlogger.
That menu is awesome
it's crazy how effective propaganda can be. in 10 years, the special forces seem to have gone from being mass murderers to noble agents of peace.
Totally awesome!!! Just discovered u on utube. Cant STOP ur vidieos, sure Im not close to repeating any. Keep chowing on down!!!
Over fishing at its best. 😢
Tiger shark
what i love about sri lankan food is the fresh and rich taste and especially the cleaniness of each dish.
Not too much oil, and just really well balanced. The cocnut flavors in this cuisine are out of this world <3 D
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Hi Mark, Its quite nice to see your series of videos, esp you exporing all types of food and different regions ^_^.
Just a small correction, based on the tea cup, Special Task Force (commonly known as STF) is a unit under Sri Lanka police (all members are police officers) while Special Forces (SF) are part of the Sri Lanka Army.
However, as you said in the description, they were deployed during the war, counter terrorist, etc activities and other natural disasters as well, kind of equivalent to GSG-9 & SEK.
All gave some, some gave all. Bless the SL armed forces. I lost friends in that 20 plus year war. 😌