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I Traveled Southeast Asia And Filmed Locals Cooking Their Traditional Meals
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I Traveled Southeast Asia And Filmed Locals Cooking Their Traditional Meals

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I am a surfer girl. I travel, surf and film locals cooking as authentic as it gets. I have filmed gypsies in a desert in India cooking on camel droppings, village people in Sri Lanka making amazing curries on coconut shells, muslim family cooking rice in banana leaves in a village in Indonesia. I simply witnessed food preparations the most authentic way and filmed and collected not only loads of recipes but interesting information about ingredients from their homeland too.

It was amazing to see in which conditions it is possible to make incredibly mouthwatering delicacies. With no stove, no electricity, no special tools for each step of food preparation like we are used to in the “West”, where we have a special knife for bread, different one for meat, different one for cheese, different one for vegetables. Blender for this, a slicer for that, egg cooker, water kettle, coffee maker… And tens or even hundreds of other tools.

The countries I have traveled, filmed in and surfed recently are India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malay part of Borneo and Morocco.

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    Food and travel blogger. A surfer girl filming traditional cooking around the world and collecting recipes and info about food related stuff from locals. Check my food and travel blog: www.AuthenticWorldFood.com

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    Bo on the road

    Bo on the road

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    Food and travel blogger. A surfer girl filming traditional cooking around the world and collecting recipes and info about food related stuff from locals. Check my food and travel blog: www.AuthenticWorldFood.com

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    Kanishka Rajawansha
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    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi, Thank you very much for visiting Sri Lanka (my home country). I can see that you have had some close encounters with the day to day lives of our people. But, there are few mistakes I see in the captions of the pics you have uploaded. That kitchen (though how poor it looks) is not a traditional Sri Lankan kitchen but a humble kitchen of a poor family. Traditional kitchens have traditional tools and made out of mud. (they are mostly extintct now) And that food is not Aluwa. It is called Mun Kewm or Athi Rasa (name changes from area to area). Aluwa is a white coloured sweet which is not fried in coconut oil. Anyway, hope you visit again to my lovely country...

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi Kanishka, thank you for your comment and all the information. Sri Lanka is beautiful, I love it and will come back one day soon. May I ask you for a small help? If the sweet I mentioned is not Aluwa, then I must have messed it with the one on the picture. Is this one Aluwa then please? Sorry for my late response, I didn`t get any notice about your comment. Thank you very much :) DSC01402-5...de9751.jpg DSC01402-5875dc8de9751.jpg

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    Kanishka Rajawansha
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi, Thank you very much for visiting Sri Lanka (my home country). I can see that you have had some close encounters with the day to day lives of our people. But, there are few mistakes I see in the captions of the pics you have uploaded. That kitchen (though how poor it looks) is not a traditional Sri Lankan kitchen but a humble kitchen of a poor family. Traditional kitchens have traditional tools and made out of mud. (they are mostly extintct now) And that food is not Aluwa. It is called Mun Kewm or Athi Rasa (name changes from area to area). Aluwa is a white coloured sweet which is not fried in coconut oil. Anyway, hope you visit again to my lovely country...

    Community Member
    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi Kanishka, thank you for your comment and all the information. Sri Lanka is beautiful, I love it and will come back one day soon. May I ask you for a small help? If the sweet I mentioned is not Aluwa, then I must have messed it with the one on the picture. Is this one Aluwa then please? Sorry for my late response, I didn`t get any notice about your comment. Thank you very much :) DSC01402-5...de9751.jpg DSC01402-5875dc8de9751.jpg

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