Eating Thai Food At Rathnapura - SriLanka - N.I.K Thai Foods - Tasty Tha...

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Eating Thai Food At Rathnapura - SriLanka - N.I.K Thai Foods - Tasty Thai Food
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Rathnapura is a town in Sri Lanka famous for its Gemstones. Gemstones like the sapphires are mined in and around Ratnapura.

In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, Gem traders from Thailand would come here to buy gemstones. These buyers would stay for 3 to 4 months looking for Gemstones. Since their stay is long they would bring their cooks from Thailand to cook Thai food for them.
These cooked would have local people as their assistant, who at a later point learned the techniques of the Thai style cooking.
They opened their own place serving Thai food..

There are few places in Ratnapura, small outlets that are specifically for thai food.
I went with my cousin, to have lunch here. we ordered for stem rice, chicken pak Kao Pao, fried fish in thai red sauce, Kang Kung.

The dishes were great. there was the usage of sauce in every dish. there was a different taste to the dishes they served.
I also tried with the lumpia sauce that they had. which was tangy and spicy.
The food was great, and I loved the flavors.
We also took a takeaway of the garoupa fish in red Thai sauce. An amazing taste. It's a deep-fried fish with sauce. The sauce gives this fish a unique flavor. Dipping the fish in lumpia sauce was also excellent...